<p>Something you are not taking into consideration is, the Cal states have a local service area. The kids in these local service areas get extra points on their applications, thus the reported data on incoming freshman can be deceiving in the higher population areas, like San Diego, San Jose, and Pomona. SLO has less density and much higher admission stats than all other Cal States and it is higher than the most recent data for UCI.</p>
<p>Isn’t Cal Poly SLO directly in between San Fran and LA in distance? I can’t imagine it’s local service area being too populated or big…</p>
<p>Dj
I wasn’t talking about SLO, please read my post carefully.<br>
“thus the reported data on incoming freshman can be deceiving in the higher population areas, like San Diego, San Jose, and Pomona.”</p>
<p>My college counselor for SDSU said that an eligibility index of about 3900 should give you a fair chance at admission and with my updated UC GPA of 3.85, my index score is now 4260 so I think I’m still competitive regardless of local service areas, hoping of course.</p>
<p>The 3.85 will makes you much more competitive.</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO’s official mandate is state wide rather than local service area. Hence, they only give a minimal advantage to the local students in SLO county.</p>
<p>Just to let everyone know, my UC GPA was raised to 3.85!</p>
<p>UCI = low reach
SJSU = low match
Pomona = high match
SLO = reach
NYU Poly = match
UCF = high match
SDSU = low match
im doing this based off your new gpa chance back please
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1579369-chance-me-undecided-quinnipiac-will-chance-back-within-6-hours.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1579369-chance-me-undecided-quinnipiac-will-chance-back-within-6-hours.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks dvl2014. I have my applications for SDSU, CPP and SJSU ready to go but I don’t know if I should venture, go ahead and send an application for Cal Poly SLO. I’ll apply to UCF as Orlando is almost my second home. NYU Poly, I don’t know how their application process has changed since completely merging with NYU. Does anyone know if Class Rank is extremely important for the UC’s? At UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, 100% of their freshman are in the top 10% of their graduating classes and at lower UC’s like UC Irvine, that number is still 96%. I go to a competitive career and technical academy here in Vegas and I’m 71/342. Is it because of the top 8% guarantee for Cali residents?</p>
<p>Class rank is kind of self fulfilling. I mean, if your avg freshman enters with a 4.1+ GPA and 2000 SAT (like they do at UCSD) they will all be in the top 10% of their class.</p>
<p>The top x% guarantee is for California residents only and won’t get anyone a seat at UCSD. Those students are ‘refered’ to lower demand campuses.</p>
<p>As an OOS student, you are going to be held to a higher standard at all Californa’s public colleges. Your counselor is wrong about SDSU - their threshold for in-state appliacants was about 4100 last year. With a 4260, you are probably in but, if they have a strong appliacant pool, they could draw the line even higher this year. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks NCalRent, I’m getting really conflicting statistics on the average freshman stats at SDSU but I think I should be fine.</p>
<p>For the SDSU freshman class of 2013, the averaged index is 4152.</p>
<p>Bump! anymore?</p>