Where will she be more motivated to learn and grow? In Santa Barbara taking community college classes or as a Freshman at ASU with much larger class sizes.
I don’t want to sound like I am advocating for a community college path, but I have seen it work for so many of S21’s friends. After one year, they are now at UCLA, UCLA and Davis after turning down Berkeley and Santa Barbara. If you are aren’t eligible for financial aid, the cost of living is deceiving. Yes, it costs 22K a year to live in Santa Barbara, but it costs that no matter if you are in college or not. Yes, community college at 10K a year sounds expensive, that’s the cost of freshman year many places if you aren’t eligible for financial aid. Where will the student thrive?