Wow, how college admissions have changed in 4 years!

[ucbalumnus]

@Gumbymom

SLO has never accepted essays as part of their admission review but yes, the CSU’s and UC’s have gotten even more competitive for the last few years.

Actually, many CSUs have gotten less competitive over the last decades. Only 7 out of 23 are now listed as having campus impaction (though some majors like nursing are commonly impacted). A CSU applicant to a non-impacted major at a non-impacted campus should be admitted by meeting baseline CSU admission requirements.

Of course, the 7 campus-impacted CSUs include the usual suspects like CPSLO, CPP, SDSU, and SJSU.

@wondering2233

A school with a lenient grading system isn’t necessarily an ethnically or economically diverse school. I’m thinking of our local HS where the getting all A’s is the norm and is composed of 90% upper middle class white kids.

Indeed, there was a study in NC suggesting that grade inflation was greater in high SES schools than in low SES schools.