My son applied in CS with 4.3 gpa and 1300 sat score . Lots of honors and AP subjects as well in his high school. Still got denied admission . Can I call them and ask the reason ?
SJS???
They won’t tell you whatever school you are referring to.
If you mean San Jose State University (SJSU), is the 4.3 GPA calculated by how CSU calculates it?
https://www2.calstate.edu/apply/eligibility-index (click on “GPA Calculator”)
From the GPA and test scores, calculate the CSU eligibility index = GPA * 800 + SATR + SATM.
SJSU has published its fall 2018 admission thresholds: http://www.sjsu.edu/admissions/impaction/impactionresultsfreshmen/
Computer science was the most selective major, requiring an eligibility index of 4725 for admission. Other highly selective majors were computer engineering (4700), mechanical engineering (4400), biological sciences (general, 4350), accounting (4300), finance (4300), software engineering (4200). However, other majors, like applied math, art (other than animation and illustration), English, environmental studies, industrial engineering, industrial design, philosophy, and physics admitted applicants who had the CSU baseline of 2950.
My mistake in putting in incomplete college name but it’s SJSU , San Jose’s state university.
Application status show as “admission withdrawn not accommodated” - which as per SJSU means due to enrollment restrictions”
The GPA I referred to is his school GPA with a sat score of 1300 . With CSU score of 4732.
Try recalculating the GPA by the CSU method and then recalculating the eligibility index with that GPA.
Perhaps your son can ask his guidance counselor to follow-up with the school.
@spyman - from some research it looks like “application withdrawn unaccomodated” means they have filled all the available seats in the subject he had chosen and they cannot review more applications for that area of study.
He probably met their qualification (if he didn’t his status would be denied). However, they do not have unlimited seats in all areas so they simply “withdraw” applications after all the spaces have beeen filled.
http://www.sjsu.edu/admissions/impaction/impactionresultsfreshmen/ says that the application results can either be “provisionally admitted” (conditional on graduating high school and not getting any senior year grades below C-) and “withdrawn unaccommodated” (i.e. rejected, even though the applicant met the CSU baseline eligibility index of 2950, or higher for out-of-state).
Because computer science was so popular, they set the admission threshold high at 4725 to limit the number of admits so that the expected number of matriculants does not exceed the capacity of the major.
SJSU does not have rolling admissions or anything like that; the application period was 10/1 to 11/30.
Probably too late now. Hopefully he will get into some UC .
Thanks you all for quick replies. I hope my son will find some college, otherwise community colleges are there and he can always transfer next year to something of his choice.