Hello. Currently I am a non local business major attending Mira Costa College in northern San Diego county. I am currently in my spring freshman semester. I plan on taking a few classes at Mira Costa over the summer, but after that I am thinking I might plan on attending Mira Mesa to boost my odds to transfer to SDSU fall 2020 since I will have taken 40 percent of my total classes at Mira Mesa by the time I get my associates degree for transfer.
But… I will be keeping my northern San Diego address, so will going to Mira Mesa even matter as far as my odds of getting into SDSU goes?
Major: Business Information Systems for transfer
Pre reqs: All will be done spring 2020
My GPA will hopefully be a 3.7 or higher when I get my associates, currently it is a 4.0.
Golden 4: Will be completed this semester.
Local Status: Total would end up being 60% non local / 40% local.
My understanding is that you need to have the majority of your transfer units completed at a local SD CC to get the local priority so 40% would not cut it.
Ok. So I could probably take my 3 summer classes at Mira Mesa instead so i would end up with 36 units at Mira Mesa and 31 at Mira Costa, although I took a 6 unit non transferable math course at Mira Costa so I guess that is more like 25.
With that being set my odds should increase, right? Also does me keeping my northern San Diego county address (6 miles north of Mira Costa, Oceanside CA) factor into anything? Meaning do I have to have an address located within SDSU’s local admission zone in order for any of it to matter?
Oops. Meant Mess College but now that you mention it Miramar qualifies as well.
For anyone else that reads this, I talked to a counselor yesterday and she said based off of the major I plan on going into, business information systems, going down south to finish community college would be pointless. This is because SDSU only accept an associates degree for transfer for general and financial in business. If, for example, I went into business general and finished the majority of my credits and obtained the ADT at Miramar/Mess that would be absolutely beneficial.
This means for me the only pathway for me (or really anyone else going into anything business at SDSU other than general and financial) is the general pathway for transfer. SDSU will still prioritize local students, but in my instance since I have already completed 1+ class outside of the local admissions area, let alone 2 semesters, I am no longer eligible to be a local student under the general pathway.
So basically I am going back to my original plan of getting all my pre reqs for information systems + gen ed done at Mira Costa Community College. As long as a obtain a 3.7 GPA+ hopefully I will have good odds of getting in for fall 2020.