SOCAL

Today I visited two college campuses; CSULB, and CSULA. CSULA was nice, LA was not. Its more of a backup than anything else, but its a backup that I'd be ok with. CSULB on the other hand. AMAZING campus! Its beautiful. Unfortunately I wasn't really able to get a feel for whether or not there is too many students cause people are probably moving in tomorrow. But its super spread out so I have no concerns about that anymore.

The even better part is that Stephen encouraged me to actually talk to someone in the Social Work department. The lady I talked to is actually in charge of admissions into the department. At first she's telling me how a 2.5 GPA is the first requirement but they are probably changing it to 3.1 next year. The second I told her I have about a 3.7 she warmed up to me and started telling me about the competitive stipends and how if I get my BA with a certain GPA then basically I can do another program which would cost me a summer versus a full year towards my Master's. She gave me a flier on the various fields I could go into with Social Work and a pamphlet on their program. I know the exact classes I need for prerequisites and I've already fulfilled or am currently fulfilling 3 out of 5 of those.

So basically I think I'm going to Long Beach. I really like the campus. I like the Social work department and I think I kind of got my foot in the door today by talking to this lady. She also gave me her email and fax number in case I have other questions. Super happy.

Now the plan is to check out CSU San Bernardino tomorrow as another backup, but I think I'm shooting for CSULB. :)