I was at an assembly today for College Awareness at my hs. I live in LA and I planning to apply to CSULA, which is the school I want to go to. The CSULA representative said that since my high school is part of their local area, they give us priority first. I have a CSU GPA of 3.941 and my SAT score from June was 910. I want to become a nurse so I’m thinking of applying as a Nursing major. He didn’t talk about impacted majors affecting admission to a local area university, but to choose your major wisely. So, since my planned major is nursing (nursing is impacted at all CSU campuses) and since the CSULA campus is impacted itself for freshman, will I still be guaranteed getting in? Or will it decrease my chances? Should I apply as a nursing major based on my stats? Or should I apply as undeclared or another science-related major?
Also, if I don’t get accepted as a nursing major, am I still guaranteed admission based on my alternate since I’m a local area hs student to CSULA? Or does the nursing major being my first chosen major still affect/decrease my chances of admission into CSULA even if my alternate major is non-impacted?
Thank you so much. I’m a bit… overwhelmed.
First of all, using the word “guarantee” doesn’t work in college admissions.
No one is guaranteed a spot at any university, until the admissions decision comes in.
Also, is that SAT score your total score?
You are given “priority” not a guarantee for being in the local service area for CSULA.
I can give you a personal example:
My niece was local to Cal Poly Pomona and she applied to an impacted major, Biotechnology. She was waitlisted and then denied at CPP but got into several other CSU’s in non-impacted majors.
Although you have a great CSU GPA, your SAT score is very low and may be an issue in getting into the Pre-Nursing program at CSULA. I believe you will get an acceptance to CSULA, but mostly likely not into Pre-Nursing.
@Gumbymom With that being said, do you recommend applying as an undecided major or microbiology major? So that I can have priority in the science classes and get my pre reqs for nursing done
@aunt bea I’m waiting for my results from the October SAT and I think I’m signing up for the November one as well.
CSULA states that if you are not admitted into the Pre-Nursing major, they will consider accepting applicants into an alternate major or undecided. I would apply as a Pre-Nursing major and put Microbiology as your alternate, this way you would have priority for the needed science classes.