<p>If you become interested in nursing, you might want to look at Pt. Loma Nazarene in San Diego. It is a wonderful, smaller school (compared to the behemoths you are looking at) and has a nursing program. The friend of a D was accepted into UCSD (she was interested in med school), decided that she really wanted to be a nurse and had to scramble (no nursing program at UCSD). Got into Pt Loma late in her senior year, loves the program.</p>
<p>Maize, the out-of-state tuition at University of Washington is $20K a year. Private LAC's charge tuition in the range of $25-$32K. So maybe Alison's parents have a budget that would allow for UW but nothing more expensive.</p>
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I assume you are aware that the application fee is $60 per campus? I think with your GPA you would be wasting your money to apply to the top UC's like UCLA & Berkeley. As far as the "safeties" left if you are rejected by UCSC, I think that the practice is that you would be referred to those campuses along with the rejection letter -- that is, I don't think you need to pay $60 to keep them as options for safeties. If you are UC eligible, you will be given a place somewhere -- if I were you I'd save my money and just apply to the schools that you've mentioned ... unless it turns out that there is another one with a marching band in desperate need of a mellophonist.</p>
<p>calmom: Yeah, I don't know, my mom wants me to apply to all of 'em just because I guess. I've kind of got my heart set on UCSC...and I have this gut feeling that I'll get in (maybe not based on numbers, but the application in itself)-although that might just be wishful thinking :p . </p>
<p>Maize: I'm aware of the cost, but it IS less than LAC's, and that is one school that my parents would be willing to pay for, it's one of my reaches. And I still have yet to visit it, I've just looked at it a lot and read a lot about it, so once I visit I guess I'll know if I want to go there.</p>