Denied at almost every school...

ucbalumnus
Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:40:08 +0000

If a student is looking at an unimpacted CSU (e.g. Bakersfield, Channel Islands, Dominguez Hills, East Bay, Monterey Bay, Stanislaus for freshmen, according to [CSU Campus Impaction Information | Student Academic Support | CSU](http://www.calstate.edu/sas/impaction-campus-info.shtml) ), and s/he has fulfilled the admission requirements with GPA and test scores for minimum CSU eligibility (listed here for California residents: [CSUMentor - Plan for College - High School Students - Eligibility Index - California Residents](GPA Calculator | CSU) ), and can afford to attend at list price or with known certain levels of financial aid, wouldn’t that be a sure safety? If such a school happened to be the student’s first choice, would the student need to apply to any other school?

Of course, a student who wants to go to a more selective school (including the impacted CSUs) needs to have a sure safety in his/her application list in addition to the more selective school(s) s/he applies to.