My daughter received an email a few hours after the portal updated.
Same my daughter checked her portal for the update but did not get an email.
Also a small vent here that she too like a lot of others on here has great stats but was waitlisted which made was a very emotional reaction as she really wants to remain in state. Same at Davis which was one of her top choices. I keep reading that UCs and CSUs donât yield protect. Having a hard time believing that.. does yield protection go by a different name these days?
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You donât waitlist people to âyield protectâ (the people you donât accept because you are protecting yield would be the worst ones to put on a waitlist since you clearly donât expect them to wait for you)⊠The reality is there are more qualified applicants than available spots so many qualified applicants are waitlisted or outright rejected.
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My son was waitlisted yesterday by viewing his portal. Has not received an email as of now.
Iâve seen over and over very high stat kids get waitlisted at schools that should be safety schools for them. Yield protection is simply putting low probability of acceptance kids onto waitlists and if they show interest from the waitlist go ahead and admit them. There are a lot of analytics that can be run these days to determine who those low acceptance probability kids are, including engagement activity, high school acceptance rates, many others. Thatâs exactly what I believe is happening at many of the California schools. This is particularly true at CSU schools since PIQs donât factor in.
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Again, that doesnât make any sense at all. You arenât going to put low probability kids on your own backup list that you rely on when those analytics failed you with your yield rate on admitted students.
It really is just a coping mechanism for kids (and their parents) who didnât get in. That type of coping shouldnât be necessary.
There are more qualified applicants than spots - not getting in doesnât need an explanation or to be seen as a knock on the kids, by definition perfectly qualified kids will not be admitted.
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There is a maintenance on SDSU site right now. It says regularly schedules but I havent seen this before (in the last few weeks)⊠thoughts?
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my son checked yesterday, no update yet.. did you hear anything back?
Crickets! Saw the site maintenance thing. DD says none of her friends have heard either.
Not seeing site maintenace down, just stuck at Application Received. Have already accepted the silent treatment = rejected!
Just checked my portal this morning. I was rejected. Good luck to everybody else!
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My Dâs decision posted but sheâs on a bus trip for sports. Sheâs bio, so that means they are rolling through those majors now.
S25#2 received a rejection for EE on the portal this morning.
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S25 rejected for Business Admin this morning. Looks like SDSU is completing their process. D22 daughter was in the same boat with SDSU. Way too tough getting into quality CA schools. Itâs not the 90âs anymore when a 4.0 was a lock getting into SDSU. LOL. Good luck to everyone with the rest of their colleges decisions.
my son who was waitlisted earlier said all his friends that hadnât heard from SDSU yet have received rejections today.
I had no idea before this that SDSU is now so selective!
Understood that there are more qualified candidates than spots. I think that what confuses people is the criteria for acceptance. There are a lot of examples of kids accepted and others that werenât that took similar classes at the same or similar schools and the students that were accepted had lower metrics than those that were waitlisted. In some cases, significant differences. The UCs have the essays that can be a wild card but the CSU feels like a mystery. In my time (35 years ago) it made more sense when the SAT/GPA matrix seemed to be the main metric besides affirmative action.
Just take a full load of HS classes that are rigorous and get good grades (90% As, 10% Bs) doesnât seem to cut it. From what I am reading, it needs to be 95% As with a large amount of AP adn honors to get a student safe from the cut line. That is what I would call âhighly selectiveâ and not what I think of for CSU, but new times!
Unfortunately SDSU is not as transparent as some of the other Cal states the calculate impaction index and list index thresholds for each major but they did post this information at one of the CSU counselor conferences:
MULTI-FACTORED ADMISSION: As an impacted campus, admission is based on many factors. Weighted CSU GPA is the largest factor, but we also consider Intended major, the amount of A-G courses above and beyond the minimum, preparation towards intended major (courses and GPA), HS course rigor, first-generation, and local admission status.
Local admission status gives many applicants that extra bump.
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Son rejected for Bio. Already has been accepted at UC Davis. What a joke! I want a refund on my application fees 
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Rejected for pre-nursing 
not too upset about the rejection (I got into UW for pre-nursing 2 days ago) just annoyed about how long it took to get my decision