Agreed because you were square on for the Bermuda High wind swell that is the only thing that can keep us surfing in the summer.Originally Posted by RobG
Agreed because you were square on for the Bermuda High wind swell that is the only thing that can keep us surfing in the summer.
Last edited by SeaDaddy; Jan 23, 2011 at 08:04 PM.
Go. Absolutely go! . SDSU is really a good school, in a great city. Pretty good academic programs. Excellent atheltic department. Overall, a really good school to get the over all college experience. AGAIN, send some mail out here to try and score in state tuition by next year. If you can do that, you can convince you parents to put you up in a room in Pacific Beach with the leftover money you saved from being an in-state student. It will be many thousands of dollars each year.
Good luck. But for sure, if you love the ocean, and surfing and want a good education, I cannot think of a better place to be in the WORLD, much less the continental US. You will have the girls, the grades, the waves, the weather... The world could potentially be your b**tch when its all said and done... You can wake up every morning, get a sick surf in and spend the rest of your day studying and going to class. This could be your life. Everyday for 4 years straight. Think about it....
Good luck to you.
P.S. If you end up out here, look me up, or P.M. me for some part time work.
Half my staff is now transplants from VB and stuff. Its funny.
SDSU is a great school but keep your grades up all of your senior year! my friend got in there last year, but in the 4th quarter of his senior year in high school he got a C in spanish, but a B for the year, and he got a letter in late JULY saying they revoked his admission because of the C, IN ONE QUARTER. I never thought colleges actually did this until it happened to my friend. So, my friend didn't go to college this semester and sat on his ass and today just left to go to Chapman University in Newport, Ca to start college. Just a words of wise
it sounds like an absolutly amazing lifestyle. but when you say send some mail out there, what exactly do you mean because i would love to pay in state tuition rather than the out of state which is much more $$ and live right next to the beach. It would be dream come true.
The first step in authenticating your in-state status is to have mail addressed to you, in the state of CA. Bills etc work the best...
But for instance... If today, you were to mail me a letter,with your name on it, but addressed to me, as if you lived at my address. The post marking that the post office puts on the letter while it is sent is the verification date of when you actually began living in CA. So, if you were to send me said letter like, tomorrow. Exactly one year after the date it is post marked, you would officially be eligable for in-state tuition...
Get it? You dont actually have to live here, but you have to have something mailed to california, with your name on it, and it must be delivered....
So, if i received a letter from you by lets say, this friday, you would be eligable for in-state tuition in your second semester of your freshman year.... next year I assume.
Anyway, google "california residency laws" "CA in-state tuition eligability" etc... There are other options out there, but when we moved here, all we needed was post marked mail with our names on it, delivered to a SD address....
Hope that helps.
that seems too good to be true...
Like I said, I did it. So did the wife. So while it seems to good to be true, it is actually true.
People stopped hearing about all the "almost" free college edications in CA. If you live in state, they make it so it is ALMOST free. I mean, 2 years at a community college for $17 bucks a credit. Thats like 60$ per class... And if you go to SDSU, the semesters tuition is around $1000...
So, 5 years ago, when the economy tanked, the whole world heard stories of the state of CA being flat broke and all that... But EVERY perk that has been set up in the state is still available. Maybe thats why the state went broke, but at least college tuition is super cheap for state run facilities and CCs.
As far as the in-state thing. It is what it is. Mail the letter. You are officially a resident. Period.
If you move out here, stay ni a dorm and go home every summer, leaving your "permanent" address as a jersey address, they will rape you for money all 4 years... Beat them to the punch and get in-state tuition as soon as possible...
Another reason why living in PB as opposed to the dorms is a great idea. Because then, you are 100% a permanent CA resident. But again, get a head start and establish permanet residency as soon as you decide that you are coming....
I did it. The wife did it. Everyone who comes out here does it...
Look beneath the "overcrowding", the "broke state goverment", the "high houssnig prices", the earthquakes that the media covers... And instead, look at all the amazing things this state has setup and offered its citizens. It is a state unlike any other. They make it impossible for you to NOT get an education if you want one...
I think a lot of states could learn from that.
Most of the bad media attention about CA is just propoganda from people who live in the midwest or anywhere else. It helps people sleep at night thinking that california is always on fire, poor, overcrowded etc. etc.... People that live here laugh it off, while everyone else can get a good nights sleep knowing that it would be a bad choice to live in CA. IMO, the joke is on them....
Dont buy into the anti-hype. the state college stuff has been common knowledge for over a decade now.... The biggest scare was in 2005 when CC credit costs went from 11$ to $17... I mean, what a joke. A class at BCC in maryland costs like $600.... do the math,.
Its more expensive to go to Baltimore Community College for a semester than it is to go to SDSU if you live in each state respectively... think about it.
I was just thinking of a way to get in state tuition since i am from SJ i have family that lives in SF and i was looking into going to Berkley anyone have experience there?
Wow wish I know about this when I got out of hs in 1998. I would have went out to california instead of going to diesel school
Same thing applies. I had an aunt in Santa Cruz before I moved out here that offered me residence at her home. Same thing with the letters. If you want to go to berkley, then you need to start establishing residency. Send your family some letters. Shoot, since its family, you should have your cell phone bill or something mailed there, and just pay it by phone....
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