California State University Admissions

LKnomad
Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:27:53 +0000

@collegegirly2016 if you look at the list of past Presidental scholarship grads you will see that it seems to be entirely California high school grads. You will also notice (if you knew the high school names) that many are actually from the city of Long Beach. What many people don’t know is that CSULB has an agreement with LBUSD and Long Beach City College called the Long Beach Promise. This gives priority admission to LBUSD (and a few other school district) students. Students only have to have minimal requirement to be guarenteed admission to CSULB. (They also are offered a year at LBCC tuition free.) This means admission rates are a bit misleading since LBUSD, last I looked, has about an 80% admission rate. This means that non LBUSD schools have a much lower than publicised admission rate.

This year there have been changed made to the presidential scholarship. When they came to my son’s (LBUSD)school to talk about it, they said that those changes are still unknown. In the past you had to be either valedictorian or NMSF in order to apply. This year you must be invited. So we really don’t know what is going on. But I would guess that LBUSD students may be favored. We shall have to see.