Non-Commuter CSU?

<p>So I am doing my last semester at Santa Monica Community College and have applied to CSUF, CSULB, CSUN, UCI & UCSB. I am not getting my hopes up about UC because I have barely a 3.0 gpa, although I do have a decent essay.</p>

<p>A little about me. I missed out on the high school experience due to being very shy and having acne, which caused me to be depressed a lot and slack off and have a low GPA, so I never got to go to a decent university. So I just looked forward to having a fun college experience at wherever I could end up. I thought things would just "happen"</p>

<p>But I found Social life/college fun at SMC is nonexistent. In my 4 semesters here I have not been able to have any sort of social life or fun college experience. I am to blame but also its this school. You would have to find other means of making friends because people are so preoccupied at this school and don't look to make friends here.</p>

<p>So I have 2 years of college left to make up for everything ive missed out on...
Now i really dont mean to make this a self pity session but I am just wondering which CSU I should go to to maximize my last years of college, so I do not leave full of regret and shame..
I would like the "dorm" experience. I understand as a shy person I have to make the effort, but I just do not want any more "commuter" experiences it is truly a nightmare, infact it is worse than highschool...any help and sympathy would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>You might look at Sonoma State Univ. A large percentage of their students live on campus- it is considered one of the few Cal State campuses that is a non-commuter school. It is in a very bike friendly town north of San Francisco. My D graduated from there in 2006 after transferring as a junior. She was also very shy, and found the campus large enough that she found a lot to do, but small enough that it was not overwhelming. People were very friendly and she made some good friends. It is a beautiful area with lots of places to explore. We are in So. Calif. also, and it was far enough that she felt like she was getting away but close enough to come home on a ling weekend. She loved it there</p>

<p>Frosh living in campus dorms is probably a reasonable proxy for residential students (versus commuters). But note that non-frosh at CSUs usually live off-campus, even if not commuting from their parents’ places, but are lumped in with “off-campus and commuter” statistics, which makes it hard to use overall on vs. off-campus numbers instead of frosh numbers. It also means that campus dorms tend to be predominantly frosh.</p>

<p>Using [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.collegedata.com%5DCollegeData:”&gt;http://www.collegedata.com]CollegeData:</a> College Search, Financial Aid, College Application, College Scholarship, Student Loan, FAFSA Info, Common Application<a href=“%22Student%20Life%22%20tab%20for%20each%20school”>/url</a>, we see the frosh living in the campus dorms:</p>

<p>Fresno: 20%
Fullerton: 38%
Long Beach: 28%
Northridge: not available</p>

<p>CSUs with a high percentage of frosh in campus dorms:</p>

<p>San Luis Obispo: 98%
Sonoma: 90%
Maritime Academy: 90%
Humboldt: 87%
Monterey Bay: 85%
San Diego: 63%
Chico: 62%
Channel Islands: 61%
San Jose: 56%</p>

<p>Sonoma does have dorms specifically geared towards transfer students.</p>

<p>Look for a school with an upper-year or transfer dorm. I agree with others that many CSUs have dorms full of freshmen but little else. At Fresno State, for example, the dorm experience is a fun one but most everyone is off-campus by sophomore year.</p>

<p>I dont mind rooming with freshmen… just dont wanna go to a commuter school with no on campus life. I applied to Sonoma and Cal Poly Luis Obispo</p>