So family had our talk and after laying out all the numbers, my daughter decided USC wouldn’t be worth the grind and the loans, so she’ll go to UCSB and stick with econ instead of changing to comm. She felt that major would provide her with the best career opportunities and will take a cc summer school econ class to prepare her for the weeder class she’ll need to do well on. And also somehow business school was now in consideration since she’ll have some funds for that, but we’ll worry about that another day - I won’t have a problem co-signing that loan - probably…
Thanks to all who offered their advice on this thread and GO GAUCHOS!!