<p>seriously… i couldve sworn i saw people here with 5.0s… its just crazy i dont get how they do it</p>
<p>hahahaha 5.0s</p>
<p>Applied: CAL, UCLA, Davis, UCSD
Major: Econ (UCLA=bus econ)
GPA: 3.84
IGETC: completed
Pre-reqs: all done except cal 2, which i’m taking now
EC: not much, I just work part time at a local restaurant (manager)</p>
<p>Someone chance me please.</p>
<p>7/10</p>
<p>better off to get pre-reqs done by fall than spring.</p>
<p>im in shock right now. finished pre-reqs and igetc. 70 units done with around ~3.6 gpa</p>
<p>checked my admission and:</p>
<p>"Thank you for your interest in San Diego State University. After carefully reviewing your application for admission, we are unable to offer you admission for the fall 2009 semester. SDSU admission decisions are highly competitive; this year, we received more than 55,000 applications. The California state budget does not allow for any enrollment growth in 2009-2010. Therefore, we only have 6,900 new enrollee spaces available and these spaces have all been allocated.</p>
<p>You may be assured that your application was fully considered. We regret that we are unable to accommodate you at this time, but wish you well in your future academic endeavors. "</p>
<p>wow. ***</p>
<p>whoa… what???</p>
<p>but did you complete the additional requirements for CSU’s as opposed to UC’s? There were a few extra courses you would actually need… I know communications was one of them. Not doing that would be the equivalent of not doing your math or one of the english classes for IGETC… probably an auto-DQ</p>
<p>yeah… speech and american history.
but he/she said IGETC complete…</p>
<p>yeah, finished speech, history, and all igetc.</p>
<p>i’m going to call sdsu on monday and ask for an appeal because honestly the average for sdsu is 2.7 or something and my gpa is much higher than that.</p>
<p>i think it’s 3.1 or 2…</p>
<p>loller90278: sdsu is so weird!! i got rejected from them in hs although my stats were way better than the avg -____-‘’</p>
<p>okay now i’m scared about not getting into UCSD. sigh.</p>
<p>Some posts from last year also show that ppl w/ GPA > 3.5 and all requirements done got rejected from SDSU…why would you even apply there? its a garbage school compared to the UC’s (you could have just gotten a TAG to UCSD, i don’t know if you did or not)</p>
<p>i did apply with UCSD with tag. now my confidence is so low im not even sure if i’ll get even to ucsd, with TAG…</p>
<p>haha you’ll be fine</p>
<p>A friend of mine (who doesn’t post here) also got rejected from SDSU earlier this week. She has similar stats to yours: 3.6 GPA, communications major. She was shocked.</p>
<p>My best explanation is that SDSU simply knows that with a GPA such as yours, you’re more than likely to turn them down for another better school. Keep in mind that all schools try to have the highest retention rate possible. If SDSU went and accepted all the students in the top, say 5-10% in terms of GPA, their retention rate would go way down.</p>
<p>is there a way i can appeal? even if the retention thing is correct that grey mentioned, i dont like getting denied.</p>
<p>that makes sense, grey. on the other hand, i don’t think i’ve ever heard of anyone, 3.0 or 4.0, being turned down at CSUN. maybe it’s because SDSU is one of the most, if not the most popular CSU. eh. whatever. i think SDSU is just one perpetual bro-down. though, i hear the business program ain’t too shabby.</p>
<p>Right. If they accepted everyone with a 3.5+ than their detention rates will go down drastically. All those kids will jump ship and head to Cal, UCLA , USC or another UC / Private once those decisions are released. I wouldn’t appeal if I were you, simply because if one of those other schools I mentioned accepted me, I would just throw away the appeal results. That means you would be taking someone else’s spot, but I guess go ahead and do it if you REALLY need to stay in San Diego.</p>
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How are these rates calculated?</p>
<p>I have two things in mind, but obviously, I don’t know. I’m guessing the rates are calculated using the number admitted to the number who actually enroll. On the other hand, I’m thinking it calculates the number of students who transfer out.</p>
<p>In either case, I believe SDSU may be shooting itself in the foot by doing this.</p>
<p>Example: If SDSU accepts 1000 students and 300 enroll, their retention rate is 30%.</p>
<p>Another example, different kind of retention: First-year entering class to X-Law School is 500 students. 100 graduate. The retention rate is 20%.</p>