I didn’t realize a local admission was that big of a bump but the beyond the stats that I have seen here I am comparing applicants at my son’s HS and neighboring HS-s. It is hard to find exact matches and every kids is different but there are a lot of cases of accepted vs waitlisted where the GPA/rigor/a-g don’t correlate. I’m trying to understand because I am curious, and also have a younger S32. I do hear from almost every parent and kid that has been through it that it is a “coin flip”.
I think it would be nice if more people could understand it since it is such a huge life event that people plan for and a lot of decisions and sacrifices are made as a result.
That is life though and it is a good prep for a job interview among other things. I interview/hire a lot of UC, SLO and a few CSU grads and this experience will make me think a little more about the CSU grads. CSU have not worked out as well as other 2 categories on average for my industry (engineering).
As stated, several CSU’s are not very transparent about their admission process (SLO/SDSU).
SJSU for example gives extra points and a GPA bump to local applicants in their impaction index calculation.
CSULB guarantees all local applicants that ate CSU eligible a spot for Undeclared if they are not admitted into their choice major.
SDSU does have the Compact for Success program for local applicants which guarantees admission if the student meets all the eligibility criteria.
So yes, local admission status can definitely help.
I have been a CC poster for many years and still cannot explain why some students are admitted and some are not with all things being “supposedly” equal.
I’m curious if your school uses Maia Learning or one of the other similar programs to track previous acceptances/denials from your high school. My school uses both carrot and stick to ensure that students keep their stats updated, and as a result the scatter graphs seem to be pretty accurate. It’s been a useful tool for me.
Daughter rejected for Art this afternoon. Her only 2 rejections so far are SDSU and CSULB. College Vine had her acceptance odds for SDSU at 67% and CSULB at 71% - college vine was way off since she didnt even get waitlisted lol. She’s been admitted to all of the 9 other schools she applied to that have released decisions so far. Still waiting on 6 more.
Rejected. No notification had to go and refresh portal ourselves just now. Psychology major. Tons of APs, DE, Honors, 4 years in all subjects such as science, history, math, Spanish. Their loss lol 3.99 GPA
I am not sure if the school uses Maia Learning. It is a large publics school with many high performing students. The school counselors we not very specific about advice on what to do to get into UCs and top CSU schools. According to my son, they said take the most rigorous classes possible and get good grades.
Daughter waitlisted for nursing. Bummer but she also knew it was a long shot OOS. Not sure it makes sense to join the WL since they don’t find out until June!
The Non-Resident tuition for 2025-26 is the $9180 plus the $444/unit Non-resident fee so with a normal course load of 15 units/semester then it comes to an additional $13,320 for a total of $22,500 for the year.
Still waiting to hear due to a known application issue on school side… counselor from sdsu is reviewing. Getting prepared… what are the typical scholarships for the getting the SDSU OOS Academic Award Scholarship Program. Thanks!!!
This is from the SDSU website and the amounts are not listed:
SDSU OOS Academic Award Scholarship Program
The SDSU OOS Academic Award Scholarship program provides competitive, merit-based scholarships to attract and admit highly qualified non-resident students from targeted regions to pursue their undergraduate studies at SDSU in one of its many academic programs. As SDSU is a global university, having a strong presence of students from different geographic regions of the world benefits the university in numerous ways. Scholarships will be awarded in three different tiers: Academic Presidential Award, Academic Excellence Award, and Academic Distinction Award based on academic performance.