Just got off the phone with someone in Admissions at SDSU. Spoke for 10 minutes about when decisions are coming out. Best they could do is tell me that all applicants will be notified by the end of March. They realize their Open House is Saturday 3/17, and they just encourage people to attend whether or not they’ve heard back yet. They received a record number of applications and consider themselves to be more selective than ever. One helpful bit of info - she told me that if there had been a problem with my son’s application, we would have been notified via email. If they didn’t ask for anything else, they have everything they need.
My son heard from Cal State Fullerton weeks ago (accepted “with distinction”), but not a peep from SDSU or either Cal Poly. After all I’ve heard about housing being so difficult, I’m thinking I should go ahead and pay the non-refundable deposit and apply for housing there so as not to miss out. Any suggestions from anyone?
@SBMamaBear My son is in the same boat as your kid. I highly doubt mine will get into CPSLO, but I thought he should make it for CPP and SDSU but like you no word yet for either. He even did UCR and they just started trickling out but no word yet. I’m going to sit back and wait and see rather than pick housing yet. Since Im in SD I will probably go with my son to the SDSU on 3/17 and to Fullerton on 4/14 (he too was admitted with distinction). As for the other schools we will tour when we hear. He has seen UCI many times as his sister goes there so Davis (which is a reach for him) will be a separate trip if he gets in. My son did have an issue with his application which was cleared up at the end of last month so I know that caused part of his delay (which I thought was funny since Fullerton didn’t have an issue. I’m thankful no matter what he has one school to go to since it seems like things have gotten so much harder in the 3 yrs since my daughter went through this process and they had almost identical stats.
@Bean981 I see that our sons have the same intended major (ME). I had a hard time getting excited about Fullerton, but now that I see this may be his only choice, I’m going to refocus! We have some neighbors who attended Cal Poly SLO - they’re both engineers - and they are the ones who recommended Cal State Fullerton - said it’s great for ME. We do have a private school option (Whittier College), but they don’t have engineering. My son would be a Physics Major and do the 3-2 program which means a transfer to USC after 3 years (assuming he meets all requirements). Well, good luck to you. I hope you’ll post once you heard back from anyone. I’ll do the same.
Interesting. I called today to request that a newly approved A-G course be added to my daughter’s academic record and be included in her CSU GPA calculation. I really expected them to tell me that decisions had been made but they accepted the information and said they would add my corresponding email and verfication of the course and grades to her file.Can they really still be reviewing applications? We toured last June but for kids who may not have even visited yet it would be hard to know if they should attend the open house on 3/17. With that date looming I really expected decisions to be communicated this week.
I am sure they are trying to give themselves some leeway. If they state they will have decisions by Friday and Friday comes and goes without post the decisions, then they will be getting even more calls. I am sure with all the course issues on the new Cal State Apply app, they want to be thorough and not accidentally reject any qualified applicants and find out through appeals they made a mistake.
I follow SDSU Admissions on twitter and earlier this morning somebody asked when to expect admission decisions, SDSU replied with the following: “Admissions decisions are released in waves. Most decisions will be out by the end of March. Admissions decisions are based on the information reported on the application and the academic qualifications of the applicant pool. Since the Chancellor’s office implemented a new application system and this year SDSU received an additional 10,000 applicants, the admissions decisions are delayed.” I agree with @Gumbymom that they are (hopefully) just giving themselves wiggle room. I read the forum from last year and it sounds like they were telling last year’s applicants to expect decisions by mid March and they received them at the end of February, so I am still hopeful about Friday.
My friend’s D (in SDSU local service area) has already received her acceptance from U of A and her interest in SDSU is waning by the minute. My friend has offered to let her accept U of A by 3/15 even if she still hasn’t heard from her local school. Let’s go Aztecs!
@Banker1 this is becoming more and more of an issue for many students. This delay does not help SDSU in their drive to become a top 50 public university as they have stated. Top notch colleges don’t fall back on the “new system” excuse. My son is now saying “forget it” and planning on UofA or Oregon due to the stress of the waiting game. As I have already said here, SDSU needed to take the 5+million dollars in application fees and put it towards staff (permanent or temporary) as well as IT professionals to manage the new application system which they knew was coming. 10K more applicants is another $500K for additional resources. I am hoping their Academic Senate is aware of the situation and brings this up with the new president as a critical item for the next year of applications.
My D had an interesting take on the delays with some CSU’s. When I told her that the new Cal Apply and the number of applicants have caused the delays she said (not a quote): “but they’ve had the applications since November 30 and unlike the UC’s, they don’t have to read any essays. Yet the UC’s will get the decisions out by March 15.” hmmmmm
You have a bright daughter, pekkla. The EI numbers were likely available on December 1. That is all that determines the admissions decisions. Calculate yield % and multiple by the number applications. Set an EI baseline. Then, send our acceptances…could have been finished easily by mid-December.
Great points. The UCs were like clockwork last year for my older D. Davis early March, UCLA mid and Berkeley end of March. I understand that SDSU is checking and double-checking thousands of applications by hand. Even though they’re not reviewing essays they are still looking at course rigor, compliance, grades within select courses and not just overall GPA, etc. But the delay is annoying!
I just would like to point out that based on the link below, 8 of the 10 most applied schools in the US are in California including SDSU, out of over 3000 colleges.
Also I would like to point out that several of the UC’s have not confirmed release dates for their decisions as they have in the past and many CSU’s and UC’s do admit they are behind. Also Ivy day is March 28, UCLA has not confirmed at date (speculating the 16th) and UCB decisions are expected also on March 28 (All top 50 schools).
I think that everyone needs to step back and realize if you are not working admisisons, you have really no clue what is involved including myself. As a parent I understand your frustration and annoyance, but it is what it is and the many joys of living in California.
You are absolutely right! The admissions team is working non stop. Yes UofA decisions came out, with a 85% acceptance rate and a 1/3 of the applicants that SDSU gets, its no wonder they came out already. It’s a lot easier.
I understand the impatience and if you’d rather accept a different offer, great! SDSU has 96,000 applicants, they’ll fill all their classes.
Come on… They LITERALLY don’t look at anything other EI at SDSU. I would prefer that they go deeper as it benefits more well rounded students vs. those that game the numbers. They could easily process over 90% of the applications with a push of a button and make the remaining pending.
You are misinformed. They process by hand, they look at everything, each major has different requirements, so no they can’t do them with “a push of a button”