Accepted to Computer Science major! UW GPA: 3.56
W GPA: 4.24
SAT: 1430
10 AP Classes
ECs: 3 internships, Varsity Dance Team Captain, Exec board of 7+ clubs, etc…
@iamgc9 you got accepted today? and instate or out of state?
@rocknix I actually got accepted a while ago in mid December. I received an email saying I was selected for early acceptance. I am in state!
accepted
computer engineering
UW: 3.64
CSU W: 3.85
ACT: 28 (30 superscore)
SAT: 1260 (1280 superscore) <<< did better on ACT than SAT
ECs: part-time job, dancing, softball, photography awards
@gabbyjohn1030 when were you accepted?
@shaswizzle i got accepted in december …i think it is because of my major honestly.
@gabbyjohn1030 congrats!!!
@shaswizzle thank you 
have you gotten in yet?
@gabbyjohn1030 nope nothing yet. i’ve been so anxious to hear back!
Thanks @sendhelp4me I’m actually watching boards for my son who also applied for undergraduate Mechanical Engineering here as well as 6 other schools. Only one which he has heard from. Good luck. I’ll relax at the end of the month once the schools release their decisions.
do you think they’ll have the decisions up by their open house on the 17th? i’ve been checking the webpage at least 10 times a day. I feel like i’m going crazy waiting for the decisions
This is CA being CA. Received Oregon and UofA over a month ago. Glad I get the pleasure of paying 10% income tax to have to sweat out what should be my daughter’s easiest school to get into.
What I don’t understand is why if EI is the only consideration for admission, why can’t they set the number and be done with it? If you are a 4300 or above you’re in, otherwise kick rocks or you’re waitlisted.
@sdsuparent20 The situation stems from the UC mess. These 4.0+ kids have no idea what the outcome will be until the end of March, so they have to utilize their high EI to guarantee them a slot at an acceptable school in case the UC’s shut them out. This leaves thousands of kids in limbo. Sorry state of affairs, but somewhat understandable. California is a beautiful place, despite overcrowding and high taxes.
@CopperlineX2 Oh I get it. Bureaucracy at it’s finest! We’ve been CA residents for 15 year and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes for the opportunity to have my 4.0 daughter to have to wait for over 2 months while 3.0 OOS candidates have been chilling since December. I get geographic diversity, but come on. Speed up the process!
With an acceptance rate of only about 32% SDSU is among the more applied to colleges. With SDSU reviewing over 96,000 applications, it’s easy to see why it takes longer to get through than a school like UofA that only receives about 35,000 applicants.
@CopperlineX2 My D is one of those 4.0+ students and I can see this happening in real time for her now, even though I read admissions threads last year just to see how bad it would be. She’s high GPA and average SAT so there are some UC’s that she prob won’t get into, e.g., her dream school UC Davis. But she just got into UC R last night and even though some kids at her hs call it UC Ratchetside, I’ve shown her enough about it in the past few hours that she’s actually thinking about it now. UC Riverside is pretty good for her major, Biology. SDSU is too far away for her anyway (we’re in the SF Bay Area) and she’s disregarded OOS schools that she got into in ED back in November b/c they’re too far away. We’re waiting for UCSC and SJSU which will hopefully roll in witin the next week, but I’m gonna push a little for the UCs.
@disney4cam The only reason we’d do that is to get my D housing in a couple of the CSU’s that have very limited housing. The CSU system has a lot of commuters so to get the best housing for a Freshman you need to move fast and sign up for housing as soon as admitted, even if your kid decides to not go there. Cal Poly Pomona is a good example of this, where ppl were discussing applying for housing when they got in (mid-February) before most of the other CSU’s and/or UC’s even release decisions yet. If a kid waits to apply for housing at some of the CSU’s until late March or beyond, while waiting for decisions from the UCs, they could end up on a housing wait list, a nightmare.
@pekkla I’ve heard UC Rejects but never Ratchetside! Riverside is a fantastic school, if they could just pick it up and move it somewhere desirable. My son decided Fullerton, Pomona & SDSU were all fine safeties, so Riverside didn’t get an app. Really hoping UCI comes through this month. Son is getting ready to decline offer for SDSU. Can’t see paying 100K for his undergrad with so many local options close by.
@CopperlineX2 I agree about the location, although I’ve never been there. The housing is nice however, and the meal plan looks better than CPP. We need a school where D can live in residential housing for at least a couple of years. The CSU housing situation doesn’t look good in this regard. At least there’s a lot of housing at Riverside. if she gets into UCSC then she’ll probably go there. She’s smart but is a very “young” 17 years old. She was adopted from China at age one and likes to stay close to home. She wouldn’t be ready to move off campus second year or drive around much somewhere else, so the ideal place would be a school in SF. But she’s ruled all of those out.