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Hi mugtaitai,
CA resident tuition
- Firstly, I must correct some info I wrote about qualifying to pay CA resident tuition. I found out later it is not that easy now to qualify for paying resident tuition even if U are US citizen and have stayed over 1 year in CA. U also need to meet other requirements as well. But anyway , I guess some people may be able to get around that.
Rent
-Yes, I mentioned about the living cost in CA is not high and cost of renting a 3 bedroom townhouse is about US$3k /month. The buying cost for a town house in a nice neighbothood is about HK$4000/square foot. U can’t even get that in Tuen Mun or Fairview Park now. So, it is a lot of less than what is being charged in HK in a good neighborhood. That’s from my personal experience. In Bay area, there is a popular real estate agency “Coldwell Banker” , U may find listing of houses, townhouses and apartments in their websites. There are other websites for renting real estates, such as http://www.rent.com
TAG/UC/Community Colleges
- I never started the process of looking for high schools but did try to visit campuses of 2 community colleges , Foothill and De Anza last summer, which names are oftenly heard in HK via various education agencies. Foothill campus was beautiful but not De Anza’s . However, I was told by various local people that De Anza was actually better in acadamic and has good transfer records for their students. But later, I met a friend who sent both his children to Foothill and were successfully transferred to UC Davis and UC Berkely. And also based on what is written in the TAG (Transfer Admission Guarantee Program) https://uctag.universityofcalifornia.edu/ , transferring to UC are not that difficult. Pls note only Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz are in this program, UCLA and Berkely are not . Well I think the budget cut would mean bigger classes and less classes to be chosen in UC, and internatonal students and out of state students would be more welcome.
Private schools
-Since U mentioned about private schools, I recently attended a seminar in HK and knew that private schools like Stanford accepted very few transfers from community colleges. But I was also told by a very smart young banker that works in Wells Fargo that he was transferred to USC (a private school) from De Anza. So, I guess it depends on what kind of private schools one would like to apply for.
Seattle
- I actually visited a friend in Seattle last summer as well and took a walk in the Washington State University neighborhood, not good and plenty bums around. Besides, it does not have direct flights to HK. So, it is out.
So, good luck!
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