<p>Waiting mom, do not hesitate to PM Carolyn back. She is AMAZING
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<p>Thanks to all for the Cal State Reminder we live between Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Long Beach which are not options for her–too big and commuter primarily. She is going to an information session for Cal State Monterey on the 17th. HUMBOLDT—I have a BA and an MA from there—I loved it! I transferred from Chapman due to $$ and fell in love with the North Coast and the beautiful college community. I then went to Texas Tech for post grad and taught…what a change…</p>
<p>Carolyn—I haven’t checked my e-mail yet I will right now…you had great input last year to all…(I’m Carolyn too)</p>
<p>Regarding $$ Private schools can be considered. We have money put aside and she has money for college that is part of an inheritance. </p>
<p>WOW EVERYONE THANK-YOU SO VERY MUCH! I am putting together a list for her to look over and then I’m sure she will hit every web site possible.</p>
<p>I second the suggestions of Humboldt and Sonoma State Colleges, but she may also want to look at some of the UCs…UCSC, Merced, and Riverside.</p>
<p>Waiting, another vote for Humboldt & Sonoma here. My son - with great test scores and grades - went to an east coast LAC and dropped out after 2 years. He has now worked and supported himself for 3 years, and applied to Humboldt as a transfer for fall. I went online to learn more about the college my son now is going to… and my jaw dropped. Quite frankly I couldn’t see all that much difference between what Humboldt offered and what he had at the LAC except the price – $3000 instead of $30,000. And Humboldt looks prettier. (Fortunately we were never full-paying at the private college… but that’s another advantage to Humbolt. My son applied for financial aid there but with his earnings he doesn’t qualify for anything but a student loan – that we REALLY DO NOT NEED.) I’m sure that there are other differences – the classes at Humboldt are probably larger, for example. But in hindsight I really feel that it is unfortunate that we overlooked Humboldt the first time around – it might have been a better fit.</p>
<p>granted I was at HSU a long time ago but the class sizes except for lecture style classes in the School of Natural Resources were 30ish.<br>
For housing look not just in Arcata but look into McKinleyville a few miles north (good campus shuttle). There are great little houses and small apts that are student friendly! I studied for my Master’s Comps outside of my apt overlooking the Mad River and the ocean. Peaceful and fun!</p>
<p>My D has a good friend who is a freshman at Humboldt and is loving it. She says all of her classes are on the small size.
Calmom- we also know several students who have gone to Humboldt as slightly older returning students early 20’s who have been very happy and easily found students in the same age bracket.</p>
<p>OP, there is an article in US News you should read called, appropriately enough, “A+ Options For ‘B’ Kids”. See <a href=“http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/articles/brief/06average_brief.php[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/articles/brief/06average_brief.php</a></p>
<p>Thanks Mom60, it’s nice to know my 23-year can go to Humboldt without feeling like an old man. Right now he’s waffling between keeping his San Francisco apartment & job and attending SF State part time, or packing it all up to move to Humboldt. He doesn’t like SF State, but he doesn’t want to move either – so he plans to wait until July and then see how he feels about it all.</p>
<p>I hope you are coming back permanently. You have been so generous sharing your incredible knowledge. May I ask, how did you learn so much? Was it through you children’s application process or books or something else? You are an incredible wealth of knowledge.</p>
<p>Oooops…I’m still figuring this all out. My comment was directed to carolyn.</p>
<p>Waiting Mom, Pitzer jump to my mind.</p>