Hi, I am very interested in attending SDSU or Cal State Long Beach. I was wondering how you accurately calculate your GPA. I took several A-G courses my freshman year. What classes below will be counted: Freshman Year: Algebra 1 (H), Biology 1 (H), Spanish 1 (H), English 1 (H), Computer Apps (H), PE, World History(H), and Visual Art 1 (H)… Sophomore Year: Geometry(H), English II (H), Speech 1 (H), Spanish II (H), Personal Finance/ PE, Algebra II(H), Chemistry 1 (H), and Cont Issues(H)… Junior year: English III(H), Statistics(H), Pre-Calculus(H), Biology II(H), Art II (H), Psychology (Dual-enrollment), US History(H), and Spanish III (H)… For my senior year I am taking English IV(Dual-Enrollment), Physics(H), Web Design(H), Speech (Dual-enrollment), Environmental Science(H), Journalism(H), African-American History (H), and Economics/ Government(H). Also, do the CSU weight Honors courses for GPA? Any input would be nice. Best Wishes!!!
This has all the information you need: http://www.csumentor.com/planning/high_school/gpa_calculator.asp
Thank you!!! It doesn’t say if they grant honors points for out of state students. I know the UC’s don’t. Do you know if the CSU’s grant extra points for honors courses to out of state students?
I like to use Roger Hub UC GPA calculator for the UC/CSU GPA: https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
If you are in-state California HS student, you can look up all your HS’s a-g courses that will be used in the calculation:
https://hs-articulation.ucop.edu/agcourselist#/list/search/institution
Honors courses are weighted if they are UC approved (California only) and only for 10-11th grades in the calculation up to maximum of 8 semesters (4 year long courses).
Long Beach and SDSU are the two most popular and impacted campuses in the CSU system, in that order. Long Beach received over 91k applications and SDSU received over 83K applications for Fall 2016 admission. Preference for admission goes to local students from local area high schools. Your previous posts suggested that you are from Tennessee, and planning on attending New Mexico (which is an extremely good school).
For California schools, since your OOS GPA is affected and limited by the number of honors credits, you can only include “after 10th grade” coursework for the CSU’s and it is typically limited to 4 AP courses. http://www.csumentor.edu/planning/high_school/
The CSU’s use UC descriptors for a-g GPA calculation. If your OOS transcript has other courses called “Honors”, these points are not be counted for “extra” points in the CSU GPA calculation. California public schools will not give OOS nonresidents more credits than instate residents. Remember that these schools were built, paid for, and supported by California taxpayers for their children. Their obligation is to California resident local area high school students.
It appears that you seem desperate to get to California schools right away without regard for costs. Going to college in California, at the most sought schools, is going to be extremely expensive. Cost of living, in any of the popular areas of California (SF, LA/OC, SD) will shock you.
You may want to apply to the CSU’s that aren’t in the “popular” areas of California. Some are in farm communities, but they are in California, and they are typically not as impacted. Most of these would probably admit you and the cost of living might not be as expensive: Bakersfield, Channel Islands, Chico, East Bay, Fresno, Humbolt, Monterey, Sacramento San Bernardino, Sonoma, Stanislaus.
Its okay. I already have it planned now. I am going to attend University of New Mexico as an undergrad and go to Grad school in San Diego. I don’t want to live in debt.