Decision: Accepted, asked to apply to Weber’s Honor’s College
CSU GPA: 4.36 Weighted
SAT: 1420 (math: 730 and english: 690)
Intended Major: Astronomy
CA Resident: Yes
When did you get accepted?
my EI is 4064 w/ the SAT. I live in San Diego. what’re my chances looking like?
@sdlife17 I believe your chances are good, depending on your major and whether you live north or south of Highway 52. (If you’re north, then your “local” CSU is Cal State San Marcos). Good luck!
D ACCEPTED 12/15/16
UC/CSU GPA 4.0
SAT 1310 (RW 640 M 670)
Undeclared
CA Resident
Applied to Weber Honors College and I hope she can join her sister who is a ME major in the Weber Honors College.
@1sbmomof3 - How does your daughter like the Weber Honors College? What advantages does it give her? I did not see anything about priority class selection or other perks.
jpc763 -The Weber Honors College students get housing in Zura Hall, which just reopened last year after getting a big renovation. They have study rooms in the library that are reserved just for them. They have their own set of advisors. There are opportunities to apply to internships that aren’t available to the general student population. As of last year, priority registration was not a perk offered. However, my daughter hasn’t had trouble getting the classes she needs. I think since most of the kids entering the honors program are coming in with credits from AP classes or testing out of some of the prerequisites, they tend to have access to earlier enrollment times than some of their peers. For example, with the beginning of her third semester, my daughter is considered a junior and was moved from pre-ME to ME major. I read that starting with next year’s class there will be honors-community housing available for sophomores that wish to take advantage of that. My daughter really enjoys the honors classes she has taken, and she looks forward to the study abroad experience. I am glad she entered a large university being affiliated with a smaller sub-set of students, and I appreciate that she can enjoy interesting classes outside of engineering. If your student applies and is accepted to Weber, I definitely recommend attending the event they hold during accepted students day.
Starting next year, Weber Honors students will be required to live in Honors College housing for two years, unless they live within commuting distance from SDSU. In that case, they are only required to live on-campus during their first year.
svetoy - thanks for pointing that out, my understanding initially was that it was an option second year. I went back and looked and you are correct, out of area students live on campus two years.
Here is the Q&A from the SDSU website:
…all freshmen Honors students must live in the Honors Residential College located in Zura Hall. Students who enter the Weber Honors College as sophomores, juniors, or transfer students are not required to live in Zura Hall.
Beginning Fall 2017, all out-of-area Weber Honors College freshmen are required to live on campus for two years as part of the SDSU Sophomore Success Program.
I live south of the 52. How does that increase my chance?
Yes @sdlife17 , being south of the 52 will place you in SDSU’s service area. This increases your chances for admission.
@sdlife17 and @svetoy for years I thought the SDSU service area was south of the 52, but according to the web site, the service area is south of Highway 56, not Highway 52! http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/questions.html#GA9. I was excited for a minute, because we live just south of the 56…but the service area depends on the high school attended, not where the student lives…and our high school is just .5 miles NORTH of the 56.
It is my understanding that the admissions preference/policy for those that live south of the 52 was dropped a few years ago. I have heard, however, the following: If you have 2 like students, with similar GPA/Test Scores, that a preference MAY be given to the student who lives within the “SDSU’s preference for local students”. Links below are for Fall 2017 Freshman Admission Criteria and Local Admission Area. I don’t see anything specific to answer your question, but maybe you can email the SDSU Admissions Office to get your answer, straight from the horse’s mouth.
http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/freshmen/
http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/local.html
Good luck.
@SoCalEloquence - I had to talk with Admissions today about another matter so I asked about any admission perks that those in the Local Admission Area receive. Those applicants who are competitive for admission and who live south of 56 do receive what the Admissions rep called “prioritization” over non-local students for most majors (not all), but the local students need to have competitive scores/stats.
Several years ago, SDSU eliminated guaranteed admission for local students who met the basic minimum standards for the CSU system, but they did continue to give preference to competitive local applicants. I think it was in 2010/11 that SDSU (and I believe one other Cal State) tried to completely eliminate priority placement for local applicants due to the impact of severe state budget cuts, but it met with a really really huge backlash from local schools, residents, politicians, and the powers-that-be in San Diego, and was dropped. SDSU does have a program/agreement with Sweetwater Union High School District called Compact for Success, which is separate from the regular local admissions criteria. It also has a similar program with Hoover High in San Diego, as well as compacts with local seniors who are in the Project Lead the Way program.
@Fish125 Thank you for the update.
@SoCalEloquence I wonder if it is actually those who LIVE south of 56, or whose high school is south of 56. We happen to live just south of 56, but the high school is just north of it. I think we will just wait for the outcome whatever it may be…I would love my daughter to be an Aztec but she’ll most likely go somewhere out of town. Thanks also for the update.
@luckymom22 - From SDSU’s website, “You are in SDSU’s local admission area if you graduate from a high school in San Diego County located south of state route 56 and extending eastward, or a high school in Imperial County.”
http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/local.html
@Fish125 that’s what I saw originally…so perhaps the person you talked to misspoke when he/she said prioritization depends upon where applicants live…it’s more accurate to say it depends on the location of the high school. If it were my student’s first choice I’d probably call to clarify…but it isn’t. Go Aztecs!