Applied to many CSUs. Please chance me!

Lou_Costello
Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:02:59 +0000

Fall 2011 SJSU Impaction
[SJSU Admission](http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1221.html)

"SJSU receives applications from more eligible students than there is space for, thus meeting the minimum requirements may not be sufficient to gain you admission, especially to your first choice major.

Effective Fall 2011, admission will be based on several factors:


Local and non-local classification
Academic qualifications"


Check the pdf at the bottom for details:
'“Local” and “non-local” students
Local applicants are students who will graduate from a Santa Clara county high school.

Local applicants are guaranteed admission provided they apply by 11:59 PST on November 30, 2010, comply with all posted deadlines and meet CSU eligibility requirements.

CSU-eligibile local applicants who are not accommodated in their preferred majors will be offered admission as Undeclared majors.

Non-local applicants are students who will graduate from a high school located outside of Santa Clara county.

Admission is offered to non-local applicants based on the overall space available in their major.

Non-residents of California and international applicants must meet a higher minimum standard, regardless of major. See info.sjsu.edu for details."

Based on a quick google, I expect you will find similar at other schools (though not all schools).

side note
Based on on-campus experience at SJSU I cannot confirm that this impaction has led to an increase in incoming student academic quality. I wish I could. Instructors have become much more vocal this past semester complaining about the exact opposite, and blaming the local service area restriction for the decrease in academic quality.

It would be nice if something good could come out of the budgetary insanity in the Cal college system.