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California Housing Requires Housemates!

California is known for having an expensive housing market. This defiantly holds true for the off-campus housing at Santa Clara University. Although the houses close to campus are expensive, the rent is made more resonable if you chose to split the cost of rent with other housemates. There is plenty of off-campus housing, but if you are wishing to obtain a house close to campus you should apply no later than December.

Marking Yourself for After College

Santa Clara often has programs with successful businessmen that ask to speak to our students and aid in teaching us how to market ourselves in the professional world. Living in the valley definitely has it's perks if you are going into a career in science or technology. Starting your freshman year, you have the opportunity to aid in an professor's research projects and gain hands on experience.

Not a Lot of Aid Available

Santa Clara has many highly intellectual students. This makes receiving financial aid extremely difficult unless you have greater than a 3.9 GPA or are a first generation minority student. When you call the financial aid office you tend to get put on the phone with students who are not very helpful on all aspects of the school's finacial aid program. However, once you get in touch with the finacial aid advisor, the process smooths itself out generally.