Question regarding "A Free and Reduced Lunch School" for impaction scores

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Quick question on impaction scores or multi factor scores. It seems that some of the CSUs (Sonoma in particular) gives points if the student is from “A Free and Reduced Lunch School”.

Since all public/charter schools in California now provide free breakfast and lunch to all students, do all students from a public/charter school get those points?

Sonoma State gives 300 points for this, and that 300 would make the difference for my daughter being below or over the 4074 multi score factor for pre-nursing.

Just curious is anyone knows if this type of school is now identified differently?

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Perhaps it means Title 1 schools?

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The colleges receive data on the High Schools with Title I status. The area reps know the schools.

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Thanks! So if it’s a Title 1 school, then pretty sure my daughter’s school doesn’t qualify so she’ll be short a couple of 100 points in the multi-factor score. Crazy that a 3.91 Cal State GPA isn’t enough to get you into pre-nursing at many Cal State schools :frowning:

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The nursing major is so ultra competitive that the adcoms have a tough time selecting the slew of students prepared for the tough core of classes. All she can do is apply. She will get in somewhere, perhaps at Sonoma?

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Sonoma State says that pre-nursing requires a multi-factor index of 4074 for fall 2024 frosh admission, according to https://admissions.sonoma.edu/how-apply/impacted-majors/first-time-freshman-impacted-major-criteria .

Sonoma State’s multi-factor index is calculated as described at https://admissions.sonoma.edu/how-apply/requirements/first-time-freshmen/first-time-freshman-eligibility-index . 3.91 GPA gives 3128 points, so the student would need 946 more points from somewhere to get admitted to pre-nursing.

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Sonoma gives another 700 points max for extra A-G sources which my daughter qualifies for. So she’s at 3828 and would need 4074. The free lunch school would put her over that, but her school is not a title one school so I guess that counts her out.

She does have acceptances at Chico, SFSU, Sacramento and Cal State East Bay already (all for pre-nursing).

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Turns out she’s actually at 4028 (she got 700 extra points for additional A-G courses and 200 points for working more than 15 hours per week while in school). So she’s fairly close to the 4074 threshhold but may still not be enough, which is unfortuate, because it’s one of her top choices.

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For pre-nursing, find out how difficult it is to advance to nursing at each school, since difficulty can vary significantly.

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That is a good point. Seems like it would be easier to advance at Chico than most of the others so we are going to visit. But she knows she’ll need to apply to lots of programs and not just the one at the school she starts at. The CSUs do give bonus points for those already at the school though so that helps versus coming from a community college.

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We toured Chico a few years ago and I thought it was a great school. Our tour guide was a nursing major. I think it’s a hidden gem in the CSU system. The campus is pretty and the town feels like a classic college town. It’s a pretty big school but it didn’t feel that way to me.

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