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I'm in Pasadena, CA.  Literally 8-9 blocks from CALTECH.  Your son must be pretty intelligent by having those schools as options. What is he thinking about majoring in? 

 

Pasadena was nice.  I was surprised with the quaint atmosphere in the area even though it's only a few miles from DTLA.  Pretty cool that you can drive 20 minutes and be in the middle of the forest.

 

Son -> Engineering & Math -- he got a 2200 on his SAT (including 780 out of 800 on the math portion).  He'll stay on the east coast as he wants GaTech --- I want in state tuition (UF).   Personally,I loved UCLA but he liked Cal Berkeley.  CalTech is intriguing --- take home tests !!   I guess when you have a student body of people that scored perfect SATs it's not really about having them sit in a class and taking an exam.  My daughter liked Pepperdine (which is way out of our financial limitations) -- HA !!

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