D got accceptance confirmation via email into SDSU today. First admit of this year. She is thrilled hopefully this is good news for the rest of her colleges yet to come. Her UC stats from Rogers site (not terribly sure these are fully accurate but should be close enough)
UC Unweighted 4.00. WGPA 4.89 and something called capped GPA 4.44.
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Congrats to her - those are phenomenal stats and she will likely have many UC acceptances.
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Aw, I was a journalism major at SDSU a looooonnnng time ago (I graduated in 1997). Back then, you had to apply for the major as a sophomore and score above 80-something on a Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation test. I had fantastic professors, access to a ton of internships and I’ve been a working writer and editor ever since.
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Getting classes that she needs. She is majoring in journalism/advertising.
She is OOS and is definitely drawn to CA and fell in love with SD. ( wanted a city & beach) She applied to UCSB & UCSD, but thinks SDSU has a better program for her. Business/Advertising. UCLA would have been a better fit in the UC system, but she didn’t think she’d get an acceptance.
My younger son attended SDSU, he was placed on the waitlist twice for some required GE courses which he eventually got into. SDSU will open more classes if the required GE courses get filled up during registration.
Upper division courses were a non-issue and he had no problem with scheduling these classes.
He did take 2 classes during the 2 different summer sessions due to wanting a specific professor but again this more of his upper division classes not the GE/Pre-req courses.
My niece a current Senior at SDSU has not had any scheduling issues and will be graduating on time this May.
My one word of advice is that a student needs to be flexible in class times and professors. I know many students do not want to take an early morning or early evening courses, but this will limit a student’s options and always have several backup classes when selecting the schedule.
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My daughter is only a freshman there, but she has had no issues getting the classes she needs/wants. Anytime she has encountered a waitlist a new class was created and she got in rather quickly. I have to say for her the scheduling has not been stressful at all.
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Just be aware that most Freshman are placed into a “pre-major” status where they need to take specific pre-req courses and maintain a specific GPA to continue into the Upper division courses.
SDSU has Mymap which gives an example of a 4 year schedule as a guide. During orientation, she will meet with an academic advisor to help plan out her schedule and they are pretty savvy in terms of which classes to take when and which classes may get filled up early.
Here is the link to Mymap. Just select year (2022 not yet available) so use 2021 and then major from the drop down.
Cal states can be generous with AP/IB and DE credit, so placing out of some of the classes can open space for more electives.
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SDSU is a beautiful school is sunny southern California but it is a large state school with a very impacted business program. She will have difficulty getting classes but, as Gumbymom stated, if she is flexible with professors (some are better than others) and class times/semesters/years, she will have more success getting her required classes.
My concern is, as an OOS student, she will be paying a lot of money for a large state school and a very popular (impacted) major. Would you be comfortable paying for a 5th year if she needed that to complete her major?
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For the parents here with other kids at SDSU - how big of a deal is Greek life? My daughter is getting a little nervous about what she’s seeing on social media as she isn’t sure it would be her thing. Thanks 
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My daughter is a current freshman and in a sorority. She has a mix of friends some of whom are in Greek and many who are not. The biggest piece of advice I can offer is to take advantage of the clubs on campus. There are tons of them and a great opportunity to find like minded people with shared interests. May daughter is always telling my about her friends who are in clubs and how busy they are and the fun people they are meeting. I also would not be surprised at some point if my daughter drops out of her sorority. Don’t get me wrong, she’s realty likes it but she also sees so many other opportunities outside of Greek life.
Please be aware social media is just a snapshot and it’s easy to jump to conclusions. I know because I saw stuff last year before school started and was pondering things.
One of the advantages of such a large school is the natural opportunity to meet all kinds of people. The diversity on campus is amazing.
Greek life there can not accept all that are interested. It’s a very small percentage of the student body. So much more to SDSU than Greek life.
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Thank you! We do try to keep the social media stuff in perspective, but it is so hard for her, since she doesn’t know any current students who can give her a personal opinion. One of the reasons it is so high on her list is the diversity. Hearing from real students and parents is immensely helpful!
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My daughter is biracial, so diversity was extremely important to her. Every time I’m on campus I’m struck by it. It’s so refreshing. My daughter chose not to use social media to find roommates. What she was seeing on social media stressed her out-she’s not a big user anyway. She went random for roommate selection and they are thick as thieves now and rooming together again next year. Social media can definitely have its drawbacks.
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Is your daughter on the Instagram accounts for SDSU2026 and GirlsofSDSU? I know my daughter is talking with a few girls ~ mostly about finding a room mate, but think it’s helping. We’re from the DC area and are going to SD for the open house in April, in hopes of meeting a few people. Is that an option for you?
Glad to hear this! Can you expand on how she went random? Do you just not put in a request? My daughter is finding it a bit awkward.
She’s on at least one of those pages, and she’s talked to a couple of people but honestly I think it’s what is stressing her out. I tell her it’s such a small amount of people on there and there’s no race to find friends - it’ll happen when she gets there regardless. Not sure if we will go in April- we are going in February to see it again (and see if the cross country flight is really manageable for her). It’ll all work out, but she’s very impatient to see it happen!
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As for cost, the large state school is still less than the privates, or at least close with scholarships. Certain less than the UC’s for us. She got into USF and Loyola Marymount in LA, but she fell in love with San Diego and the campus.
And I think SDSU has a better program for her major than the UC’s she applied to.
(UCSB & UCSD)
I think she’d do summer classes before doing a 5th year; hopefully it won’t come to that😩
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Over the summer before school starts students fill out a questionnaire and then the housing department matches students based off that. I don’t know what the questions were because I was totally hands off. My daughter wanted to handle it on her own. She was definitely nervous about the roommate situation and trying to find “friends and roommates” on the Instagram pages were stressful for her, so she left and let the university match her. As I said upthread, her and her roommate adore each other. She’s in a triple and didn’t really hit it off with the third roommate but they are able to all live harmoniously.
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Well if she wants to talk with my daughter, let me know and I’ll post her Instagram. It’s always good to have a buddy in the same boat.
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My son wanted the Greek Life so that was one of the draws in attending SDSU but as stated by @Picklenut6, he also had a mix of friends within the Fraternity and the outside.
My niece did not join a sorority and has not found her experience at SDSU lacking.
I can tell you, your student will find their “tribe”.
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