Yeah, I'm still toying with the decision between the two. I don't have any great desire to commute to east bay every morning. But I've heard a few advantages at Mills:
1. Smaller class sizes. I'm hoping this will make learning and meaningful interactions with the professors easier.
2. Enrollments. I have one year to take the classes I need, and I've just had too many bad experiences with not getting courses I'd've liked at SFSU.
3. Reputation. I don't think Mills is well known to the lay person, but two counsellor's I've talked to said that the reputation is very good among AdCons.
4. Track Record. Their med school admission rate was something like 83%, which is pretty high. And they have a very good record at getting folks into the UCs, specifically, which is where I'd like to stay.
But I'll see what the financial aid package looks like. Mills is steep and State is cheap (-ish, I liked the rhyme). I like SFSU and would have no problem attending there, but I'm not young and pretty much am giving myself one shot to do this, so I'm trying to load the dice wherever I can.
May see you at state in the fall...