What schools should I look into?

smurray09
Sun, 21 Jul 2013 06:06:02 +0000

Yea @roskee, it’s a shame that people with great GPA’s got rejected from SDSU just because they don’t live in San Diego. I’m from there, lived there from Kindergarten to 9th grade (back and forth from overseas), and I just wanted to go back home. To be quite honest, I kind of knew I had no chance. Slacking off in the beginning of my college career messed me up pretty bad. Luckily I got accepted to a CSU in Los Angeles (not CSULA). I’m going to apply to SDSU again for Grad school and hopefully I’ll have a chance to get in then.

I know the guy above me stated to avoid the private schools in CA, but I wanted to point out that if you really want to go to school in the San Diego area; they have like 4-5 universities out there. There’s University of San Diego, University of California San Diego, SDSU, and Point Loma Nazarene University… There’s even CSU San Marcos, which is in San Diego county but it’s in more of the outskirts of San Diego, still it’s a good area and a beautiful campus. It was ranked #1 as the safest CSU campus.

Now back to your question… In order for you to see where you stand with those colleges, I’d look on their websites and see what they’re transfer acceptance rates are. If they’re low, I would apply but wouldn’t get too hopeful. In my opinion your GPA is really high and some of these schools may think that you’re just applying to them because you consider them as “safety schools”. (Not saying you do but that’s how some admission reps think.) I think you have a high chance of getting into all of the Nevada colleges. Correct me if I’m wrong but you’re a NV resident right? If that’s the case then apply to them.

For USC, there’s really no real way for us to see if you have a chance there. USC is very picky when they’re selecting students, so you really don’t know if you have a chance or not. If I were you, I’d check the http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/1349313-official-usc-2013-transfer-thread.html to see how they may select their transfers.