I got rejected by CSULB

Applying to College
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I just got an email today by CSU long beach saying that I have been rejected . I am really heart broken and am angry at myself . I don’t know why but I have all this anger . my sat score was 1630 and my GPA was 3.7 weighted. My friend got in and his GPA was 3.5 and his sat score was 1600. I also have 300 hours of community service while my friend had none . I also had some clubs and so did he. I don’t know why I got rejected . he had an undecided major while I went for chemical engineering and my alternate was business.
I want to know why I got rejected and if I can get into San luis obispo or San Jose since those are my only other two colleges I applied tooo

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I would call admissions at CSULB and find out why you were rejected. CSULB had around 90,000 applications and the Chemical Engineering major is very competitive. Your CSU GPA and SAT score are within range but not outstanding. You have to expect the more competitive the major, the more competitive the stats are needed to be accepted.

You want to make sure that your rejection is not a mistake, such as your SAT scores were not received or a mistake on your application. What is your SAT breakdown? You can calculate your Eligibility index for SJSU and see how you stack up against the EI thresholds for your majors from last year. (CSU GPA x800) + (SAT CR + Math)= EI

I can tell you based on your posted stats, SLO will be a Reach, so hopefully you are above the EI for SJSU.

http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/static/admission/frosh-f2015impact.html

Good luck and I am sure you will end up at a good school.

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you’ve read the selection process information, right? From the CSULB site

Since they didn’t admit you as undeclared you must not be a local applicant. So you faced a higher bar than your friend, competing for spaces left after they took all the local applicants that met the minimum index value. Which may have been a very small number, or even zero.

Cal Poly is, if anything, more competitive for engineering than Long Beach. They also say “Cal Poly rarely considers alternate or ‘second choice’ majors.” So I wouldn’t have high hopes for Cal Poly, although maybe the dice will come up for you. So it’s probably SJSU or bust!

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Remember that CSULB does not use holistic admission like the UCs do. Your ECs don’t matter and are not taken into account. They do look at your major however and rank your eligibility index against other students applying to that same major. This means that you were not compared to or ranked against your friend. He was admitted using a different EI index calculation because he was not STEM and he was compared to different students than you were. Apples and oranges.

Many people also do not realize that priority is given to local Long Beach Unified students who meet minimum requirements. They will be admitted first through a program called the Long Beach Promise. After that non locals are admitted by index score.

Also there were 90,000 students who applied. I do not know how many were admitted but if you look at past statistics using the college navigator and plug in those numbers it looks like the admission rate was about 22%. Don’t quote me on that, however. This is an estimate based on old data.

I am sorry you didn’t get in.

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Often the engineering and business programs are more difficult to get into. Perhaps ask your guidance counselor to follow up on your behalf.