San Diego State Freshman Class of 2028 Official Discussion Thread

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I think we ALL understand that every one of the CA kids can’t get in to the most competitive CA schools…

But it’s also understandably frustrating when you pay California taxes (which are pretty darn high) for decades, and then your 4.2W (3.89 UW) kid, with a year and a half of college complete, doesn’t get into any of our top 3 state schools (I am talking CSU’s, not even UC’s!!), while OOS kids are posting that their weighted 3.7’s got them in EARLY.

This is what happened to us in 2021 and you can see similar stats on early admission OOS kids this year.

We all understand that it comes down to money, and that rounding out the classes is important, etc…but it IS frustrating. All of this can be true at the same time.

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Agreed but I see the same complaints on the boards for U Maryland, U Michigan, U Wisconsin too. Though some state legislatures mandate a percentage of in-state students. Not sure about CA.

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Respectfully, it can also be true that out of state kids earned their spots academically. I am sorry to hear that CA residents are frustrated with their past and potential outcomes but perhaps a new CA colleges residents/parents thread could be started? Most SDSU decisions won’t even be out for a couple of months, so your child may still be accepted and be excited to share the news when the time comes. They might even be in a scholarship pool that oos kids are ineligible for. There are hardworking kids on here simply looking to join a group to celebrate their acceptance with their future class.

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My gripe was with San DIego State, admitting OOS students now before they admit any in-state, and many of those admitted with lower stats than in-state kids they will ultimately reject. When my son tours OOS schools they are all clear that they absolutely prioritize their own residents. Many of them - like UGA and Florida State - have early admissions for only in-state kids and the stats needed for admission for in-state kids is slightly lower than the OOS kids (as it should be). But it’s the opposite here. It’s probably a blessing because my son really wants to get out of California anyway but the price difference stings

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yes, it can be true, but it often isn’t. The kids that just got admitted posted their GPAs, etc and many of them are NOT stats that would ever get an in-state kid admitted.

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The College confidential community is small and many admitted students do not post on any social media sites. Some early in-state admits posted here but I have seen many more on Reddit and Facebook.

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I am a 1993 SDSU graduate from LA and my high school GPA was 2.76!!! Ha! Never in this day!!!

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I don’t think this is accurate. The schools usually publish average GPA for incoming students. I don’t think I’ve seen dot plots with the GPA of every single entering Freshman. For example, I’d be willing to bet there is a non-zero number of in-state Freshman with <3.5 incoming GPA at SLO and SDSU.

This may be especially true for local area admits, who are prioritized at each campus.

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D24 is instate (Riverside County) and was admitted in December. I had no idea that they gave out decisions before March.

FWIW she has a 4.14 CSU weighted gpa, completed the A-G coursework. She is not a recruited athlete either.

Two other kids from her school (her school is small….450 or so kids) with similar GPA were also given acceptances in December.

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Do you know what Majors?

Ours has 4.19 csu capped gpa 9-11 (4.65 fully weighted with 35 a-g and 26 AP &DE).

Wondering if majors has anything to do with early vs regular admission

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Over the many years that I have followed SDSU decisions, there is no pattern to the majors that are.admitted. The majors that are not admitted early are Nursing and audition based majors like Dance and Theater.

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D24 applied as a kinesiology major. I think one applied as psychology and I am not sure about the other one.

FWIW my daughter took the following honors/AP classes:
Honors English 9 and 10
AP Lang 11
AP Lit 12
Honors Anatomy 11
AP Biology 12
Honors Spanish 2 (10)
AP World History 10 (4 on exam)
AP US History 11 (3 on exam)
AP Gov. 12
AP Stats 12

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to be clear, I’m not suggesting schools take all in-state students. But when they are admitting OOS students who wouldn’t get in if they were in-state, and they are doing it for the OOS tuition $$, that is not OK. Talking about SDSU,not UCLA. They are state supported institutions that are supposed to provide a benefit to CA residents. We pay SO much in taxes and we can’t even get our kids into good state schools.

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They get way more in tuition and they are guaranteed to get the two years in housing because they know that an out of state admitted student has no way to get out of the two year housing contract unless they join a fraternity/sorority.

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How do you know that the OOS students would not get if they were in-state? They are evaluated in a separate applicant pool and you cannot compare OOS GPA’s to in-state GPA’s since they are calculated differently along with the many different OOS HS curriculum’s to consider. Unless you work in admissions, you cannot know about the full process.

So not to continue to derail this discussion, I suggest you look over the same arguments you have made by reviewing this discussion thread. Everyone’s opinion is valid so if you feel strongly about this issue then find a way to make your wants known. If you want to continue this discussion, I suggest you start a new thread.

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/vent-about-uc-decisions/

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Out of state students and their parents have absolutely nothing to do with the admissions process. Contact your state legislators or the board of regents or the governor or whoever controls these sorts of things in California if you really want to change things.

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I never said I was blaming OOS parents, lol. Quite obviously I’m annoyed at the school and our state.

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Worst applicant website in history. As an alum, I’m completely embarrassed that the my.SDSU site is what applicants interact with during the admissions process.

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My D got into SDSU in December. We are OOS. She spent her entire childhood in the rainy, cloudy Northwest. She knew she wanted a break from Seasonal Affective so she worked very hard in high school, took extra IB classes, got almost streight A’s. Going off to college is her first chance at a different experience and a different climate. We are grateful that SDSU offered her admission and we are seriously considering accepting it.

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Agree. That full process includes local area students. We are, fortunately, local to San Diego State. This university has articulation agreements with all of the local area high schools.

If the student attends one of the local area HS’s, south of San Diego State, they are guaranteed an admission spot, if they follow the strict curriculum that the university has set. The rigor of the coursework expected, in the signed articulation agreement, is in line with a lot of elite universities. It’s tough. But if the students do well, and stick to the signed articulation agreement then they will end up with a spot. This was the case for my nephews and their friends.

So SDSU has set aside a reserved number of spots, that have been designated to locals, who stick to that signed articulation agreement. SDSU was tired of the “party” school reputation that followed the school and they changed the metric for courses and grades for admission.

If a resident lives north of one of the major highways in the county, then they are prioritized for admission to the newest university: CAL State San Marcos.

The trouble with this is that San Marcos is not the powerhouse that is SDSU. Students don’t want to go to San Marcos. It’s not the same large university. So they tend to apply to SDSU. But if they haven’t met the requirements, and signed the articulation agreements, early in their high school career, then they will be rejected. I had a number of students who were shocked that they were rejected.

I do know that SDSU is familiar with all of the area high schools and community colleges so if you follow the rigor expected, then for all intents and purposes, you will be admitted to SDSU.

All three of my children attended a school north of that highway, but they applied to SDSU. By late in the third week of December, they had received their acceptances at San Diego State.

We had to agree to pay for on campus housing, for two years, in order to be considered for admission because we live north of that highway. They were also expected to have the tough rigor requirements for admission.

FWIW: All three of my kids were admitted to top 10 universities (and the UCs/UCSD). It was the rigor, GPA, EC’s and sports that probably got them in. Again, we don’t know what those universities were looking for at the time so we’re just speculating.

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