I was recently conditionally accepted to CSULB , they have not finished reviewing my transcripts to notify me if i am accepted or not. Long Beach is a commitment I am willing to go through since i am not from the long beach area.
I am afraid that May 1 will come along and CSULB won’t have notified me of my standing.
I was also accepted to CSUSM which is 40 minutes from me, in which i would commute to.
Is it okay to accept my offer at CSUSM on may 1, although i accepted my conditional acceptance at CSULB ? This is only to be safe if i am DENIED admission at CSULB.
You can only accept one offer. BUT, you can accept CSUSM for now, and then if CSULB comes through, then you can tell CSUSM that you won’t be attending (and you may lose your deposit) and then accept CSULB. The small overlap that you have is fine.
Am I understanding your conditional acceptance correctly? Aren’t ALL acceptances conditional right now? That’s the language used by the CSU system. If you are conditionally accepted pending verification of your final transcript, then you are, in fact, accepted. Simply put, there is no way for a school to verify your transcripts until the end of the school year.
My son was conditionally accepted pending verification for every CSU he applied to. You just have to meet the conditions layed out in the acceptance offer. Usually, they are pretty perfunctory: No D or F grades in the remaining classes, no withdrawals from high-rigor classes, things like that. Does CSUSM use different language than that?
@AMCdad they conditionally accepted me due to my supplement application , they are barely reviewing my previous semesters. So they can still deny or accept. And then once again I will have to submit my final transcripts in june.
Intent to Enroll Received - Admission subject to confirmation: Documents needed!
Enrollment Deposit:
Deposit has been Waived
Our records show that you have already accepted admission for the current admission term.
This is what it says when i accepted CSULB offer.
I have read on other post that people have gotten denied, due to mistakes on their supplemental app and transcripts.
Yes CSULB and CSUSM are the only school i’ve been accepted.
I was waitlist at UCSB … so my hopes for other UC’s are low.
@thumper1 I will be visiting the campus Friday morning, and hopefully get to talk to someone in person. On phone calls i keep getting " we have a lot of transcripts to review, please be patient. We’re behind"
Not sure how it works for the CSU system, but when I looked into it a few years ago I found that the UC system does check for multiple acceptances although in a somewhat haphazard fashion. Speaking strictly about the UC system, they don’t have a central accepted students database that they’re all connected to in realtime. IIRC what happens is that every once in a while each UC sends in its list of accepted/SIR’d students, everything gets loaded up into one database, and at that time cross-checks are made for students that have SIR’d (accepted) multiple UC’s.
Students that pop during those checks do tend to get rescinded, so the UC’s take it seriously when it’s uncovered. They’re just a little slow to get around to it.
What that means in a practical sense is that you probably could be in accepted status to two schools for a little while before cancelling one, but it’s a roll of the dice whether or not you get caught and if you do get caught then the consequences can be severe. So definitely talk to admissions at both schools to make sure you’re doing everyone on the straight and narrow.