SDSU: Denied admission for Fall '08

Cali_Trumpet
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:37:13 +0000

Rzajr-

People will believe what they want to believe. I think if you go to Riverside expecting to not like it, you won’t enjoy your experience. Same goes for most schools. It is good you were able to transfer to USD though. I think a lot of people just go to CC because they are afraid it is impossible to transfer from a UC to somewhere else if they do not like it.

I know alot of people who like the school, and a fair number of people from my high school end up at SDSU since my school is basically an SDSU funnel school.

I am always looking at the future outlook, and I tend to think the better teachers teach at the UC’s no matter what UC it is. A professor would probably want to teach at a UC rather than a CSU for prestige. This is all skeptical and people can argue one way or another. Also CSU’s are known for specific programs, SLO and SDSU in particular. SDSU has a sweet business program and we know about SLO’s engineering/architecture program. The Uc’s have a wide variety of majors and every UC focuses on a variety of majors, rather then a single program within the school. I bet for instance, a literature major at SDSU is inferior to that of UCSC/UCR’s literature major.

It is all how you look at it, but I tend to think the fact that SDSU looked at three numbers when applying to the school says a little about the students they are going to accept. They wanted a high gpa, basically disregarding the difficulty of classes during your High school career (certainly regarded less then the UC’s would). They wanted your math and reading Sat scores, and they put everything through a system, and accepted students based solely on numbers. I tend to think students should be expected to get involved a bit in high school through an EC or sport. The UC application basically asked the applicant to highlight their last 4 years of high school, through ECS, volunteer service, and various essays. The UC’s seem to put a little more effort into choosing the right students for their schools. This is not to say that the UC’s do not care about numbers, because they definitely weigh most of your application on numbers, but there is a little wiggle room either way because of the extras in your application.

Just my two cents, but I am sure students in the SDSU forum will deny my claims because we are all biased in one way or another, right?