Where does the prestige boost end?

[ucbalumnus]

@Data10

This suggests many Silicon Valley employers perceive that SJS has a quality CS program, which is understandable considering the quality CS courses that SJS graduates take, which are largely similar to the ones offered at top colleges. However, I’d expect few on this forum would consider the SJS CS program as prestigious,

SJSU CS has not gone unnoticed by prospective college students.

http://www.sjsu.edu/admissions/impaction/ indicates that, for fall 2018, the eligibility index threshold for CS was 4725, which was much higher than for most other majors there (many as low as 2950, which is the minimum for frosh admission to the least selective CSU campuses and majors).

Eligibility index = GPA * 800 + SATRW + SATM. GPA is calculated by the CSU method ( https://www2.calstate.edu/apply/eligibility-index and click “GPA calculator”). Some theoretical GPA and SAT combinations that barely meet the 4725 eligibility index for SJSU CS for fall 2018:

4.0 unweighted => 4.33 CSU-recalculated GPA, 1270 SAT
3.7 unweighted => 4.03 CSU-recalculated GPA, 1510 SAT

In contrast, for the least selective majors at SJSU, an applicant with a 2.5 GPA and 950 SAT would have been admitted at the 2950 eligibility index.