FWIW Utah would be a safety and automatically gives instate tuition rates to children of veterans (https://admissions.utah.edu/residency-military-exceptions/)
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Interesting. Well, I guess I’ll see what happens with SJSU. Luckily I only added that one based on other posts about the strength of the CS program and not based on my son’s burning desire to go there. Thank you for the response.
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Oh, and while I hadn’t confirmed my calculations with the calculator, I just did and the calculator agrees with my spreadsheet on all numbers I gave. So now I’m really confused why the CSA website says his GPA is a 2.9. I checked his classes, credits, grades, and A-Gs repeatedly before allowing him to submit. I even caught and fixed a couple mistakes made by his school in listing his calculus classes in the Californiacolleges.edu website which brought the mistakes into CSA. His school’s mistakes were going to give him extra points for math (7 classes instead of 6). I fixed those, brought his credits back down to an accurate reporting and his GPA is still showing a number higher than I expected by .02.
And yeah, the 4.23 CSU weighted includes the college class. I know the 8 units is semester units, not full years. The college class was a HS unweighted class that grants college credit through the final exam. I emailed the Cal State Apply folks months ago to ask how credit by exam should be reported since it’s not the same thing as dual enrollment. They told me to remove the class from the HS side and only report the class with its grade in the college side. So there is a computer programming class in his HS transcript, but the college class has a different name.
I’d move UCSC to match and CSULB to likely.
Well it should be interesting so see the results for SJSU. If the threshold remains at 3400 and he gets an acceptance, then you know they used the 4.29 GPA rather than the 4.23.
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Of course, the threshold can change every year based on the size and strength of the applicant pool.
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Oh hell. After all this discussion on 4.23 vs 4.27, I discovered a calculation error in my Excel spreadsheet. I was still removing half an honors credit (one semester) from the CSU calculation even though he only had 7 credits in 10-11. It’s only for CP I needed to remove the half credit.
So final answer: his CSU GPA is a 4.27. Sorry to waste everyone’s time with the long discussions on SJSU.
No apologies and not a waste of time. I am sure some CC posters got some valuable information regarding this discussion.
Please update with the results in the Spring.
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Do you only have two years of GI Bill tuition? If you have four years of GIB and qualify for the VA’s Yellow Ribbon Program, some private schools become financially equivalent to in-state cost and, in some cases (USC, for instance), may actually be cheaper or full ride.
Yes, we only have about a year each remaining. We converted our Montgomery GI Bills to Post 9/11 and then transferred our benefits to the kids. Unfortunately, due to the amount of time I served AD after 9/11, I only qualified for 80% benefits on the post-9/11 GI Bill, not the 100% required for Yellow Ribbon (trust me, I seriously wish we qualified… I’m in a doctoral program right now myself and paying for it out of pocket.)
and @Gumbymom, I promise I’ll post on the SLO & CPP results threads regardless of his outcomes (I’ll look for results threads for the other schools too. I’m sure they’re out there, but I haven’t looked at those before). I’m sure a lot of people who are rejected from the various schools don’t come back and post negative outcomes, but I think that’s incredibly helpful information. I know I’ve scoured the threads numerous times myself in the past couple of years.
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Shucks! I wish your son the best of luck with his college search.
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