<p>He would be guaranteed admit at Southern Utah University based on his scores compared to their admissions index matrix.</p>
<p>[Seniors:</a> Applying for Admission | Future Students | SUU](<a href=“Admissions Information | SUU”>Admissions Information | SUU)</p>
<p>As far as the CSU’s go with a 3.0 you will have a much better chance at “your” CSU rather than the other ones. Your name says you are from Nor cal. You should find out which is your “CSU”. For instance Southern San Diego gets preference at SDSU, Northern San Diego gets preference at Cal State San Marcos, Orange County gets preference at Cal State Fullerton, etc… Also you should look at the non-impacted CSU’s (I am not sure which are non-impacted, but I know SDSU, CSUF, and CSULB are all impacted). The CSU’s use a formula combining the GPA and the SAT or ACT score. D1 goes to SDSU and this year the average admitted GPA was a 3.8 (although the average GPA for San Diego residents was lower) so likely he won’t be able to get in there. You might look at Cal State Monterey Bay, Cal State San Bernadino, etc…</p>
<p>Without considering his academic record against the school’s average stats for acceptances, and based solely on your expressed preference for Southern California and your ability to go full pay, you might look up Chapman University in Orange, CA, 45 minutes (at 1 a.m.) from downtown Los Angeles. For geographic reference, it’s around l0 minutes from Anaheim/Disneyland.</p>
<p>Chapman offers undergraduate majors in business, and has an MBA program on same campus. It’s a private university, but the only graduate programs are those where a masters degree is the terminal degree. This keeps it to a manageable size for undergraduates, who also get the added stimulation of grad programs on campus in law, psychology, business, fine arts and others where masters is highest degree. These are called “National Masters Universities.”</p>
<p>Univ. of the Redlands is probably best for business. Also, Univ. of the Pacific and Whittier College.</p>
<p>Re: “impacted” CSUs and local preference</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.davincihigh.net/counseling/CSU%20tips%202010.pdf[/url]”>http://www.davincihigh.net/counseling/CSU%20tips%202010.pdf</a> seems to have a list.</p>
<p>University of Montana
Colorado State</p>
<p>^^ Not sure if that’s the latest word in local preference. Pretty sure SLO and SDSU are using local preference again.</p>
<p>it took the threat of legal action to get san diego state to get back to local preferences.</p>
<p>There are some very good suggestions from other posters but I would like to add that if you and your S have a reach on the list that is realistically a possibility - go for it. A friend’s son counted himself out of is reach school and chose not to apply. Then he found out that a friend with lower stats - including a D and F on his transcript, was admitted. He regretted not trying. </p>
<p>Has he calculated his academic index for the CSUs? If he’s in the ballpark, apply.</p>
<p>I would not assume that his SAT’s will not improve. Why not take them a few more times? I know that some people might think this is crazy, but my son was willing to take them 5 times (and maybe will even take them another time, because his score goes up 50-100 pts every test). From time 1 superscore to time 5, his scores went up 350 points, far more than expected…to pretty high scores. Sometimes it’s a fluke, sometimes it’s just having more practice. Certainly math scores can go up or down randomly depending upon the questions. I am thankful he didn’t take the test one time and give up. Why not continue to try to improve, especially with a little studying? It might give him more options.</p>
<p>San Diego State always used local preference, they just changed it from automatically admitting anyone who met the minimum criteria to giving the local students a significant edge over the other applicants. </p>
<p>I don’t know how hard it is to get into, but Westmont in Santa Barbara is beautiful.</p>
<p>Westmont is beautiful and they recruited my son to attend. It is not too selective but he didn’t think the environment was a match. Small and somewhat more conservative.<br>
Lots of factors to consider when choosing the right college! Good luck!</p>