First, I hope your daughter will get into LBSU. I thought well of the school decades ago and recent graduates tell me they still feel that they got a good education.

Thinking about what 2001 grad wrote how the admissions values “… home address geography first.” Years ago, I was talking to a friend about how Long Beach State University would be a better name for the school. Everything was fine until I said that it would make the school more nationally prestigious. Boy, did I hit a nerve. My friend did not want LBSU to be nationally prestigious, her main concern, perhaps only concern, was that there was a local university for her children to attend. I do not know how much her concern was cost, or that she wanted her children to stay close to home, but she did not want her children competing with other high school graduates from across the country to get into LBSU.