I’m in my final semester at a California community college and I’m dying to hear back from the schools I applied to. None of them (except CSUEB) have transfer profiles of admitted students so I don’t know where I stand at some of them for admission. I applied to 7 CSUs, East Bay(admitted), Channel Islands(admitted), San Francisco, Fullerton, SDSU, Long Beach and San Jose. I’m particularly worried about San Diego State and Long Beach as they’re my top choices. I’m a Business Admin - Finance have a 3.41 cumulative with all of my major prep done and mostly As in the major prep classes (Bus Law, Stats, Managerial accounting and microecon), with a 4.0 last semester (mostly gen eds/social sciences/humanities though) I’m not in the local area of any of the schools I applied to. Does anyone have insight of what my chances are specifically at SDSU and CSULB? I know their business programs are hella competitive but I figure my GPA is decent and I have all my prep done. Not a URM either
You look like a competitive applicant so being non-local is your only disadvantage especially for SDSU. Your chances are dependent on how you compare to the other Finance applicants and no one can really give the odds. Best of luck and it looks like you have some good choices already. URM not a consideration in CA public university admissions.
Didn’t know that about the URM status, that’s reassuring. Helpful reply, thank you
Still looking for opinions on this! If you have any insight let me know
As noted above, your chances will depend on the number and qualifications of other finance applicants, and it’s unlikely that anyone outside of the admissions offices knows this. You can get a very general idea of where you are more or less likely to be accepted from the CSU “Impacted Programs Matrix”.
https://www.calstate.edu/sas/documents/ImpactedProgramsMatrix.pdf
- East Bay and Channel Islands aren't impacted for business, so they should have room for all qualified applicants. You have apparently been accepted to both of these programs already.
- SFSU is partially impacted for business, but only for accounting specifically. Since you aren't applying for accounting, your chances should be good here too.
- CSUF, CSULB, SDSU, and SJSU are impacted for business. So they have more qualified applicants than they can handle, which means that they have to turn some of those qualified applicants away. Locals will get a boost, but you apparently aren't local. So these will be the toughest admits for you.
I know about the impaction I’m just wondering if I have decent enough stats to bypass the impaction and be accepted, specifically for CSULB and SDSU and how much being non-local impacts that. Like could I get denied as a non-local with a 3.41 to SDSU in favor of a local with a 3.2? I’m really just trying to see what my odds are, I want to go to the best business program I get accepted to. Like you said nobody but admissions really knows, but I just wish I had a transfer profile of these schools so I can gauge my expectations.
if you aren’t local, SDSU and CSULB are pretty unlikely. Fullerton is a coin toss. SF and SJ are both very likely to take you. Frustratingly, few campuses are transparent about how much of a break it is to be local but, it varies a lot. I believe it was Fullerton who accepted no non-local freshmen a few years ago.
This link from SJ will show you the GPA for transfers by major - they also note that .2 is added to the GPA of local applicants.
http://www.sjsu.edu/admissions/impaction/impactionresultstransfer/index.html
You will have some solid options open to you.
Good luck.
note that CSULB does not give locals priority in highly impacted majors (like business) so you arent at a disadvantage there.
Really? That should help me. I have all of the CSULB major prep done
@feartheroar Biz is not currently flagged as highly impacted (like Nursing is) on this page:
http://web.csulb.edu/depts/enrollment/admissions/transfer-major-criteria/index.html
I was surprised to see they use the applicant’s high school to determine ‘local’ - even for transfers. I haven’t seen that at any other CSU
https://www.csulb.edu/admissions/local-preference-admission-consideration
When CSUs give local preference to transfers, then local or non-local status is normally determined by the location of the applicant’s community college. The only exceptions appear to be CSULB and Cal Poly SLO.
https://www2.calstate.edu/apply/freshman/documents/csulocaladmission-serviceareas.pdf
CSULB looks at the transfer applicant’s high school, as noted above, rather than the community college. Presumably this means that you could graduate from a high school in Long Beach, then attend City College of San Francisco, yet still be considered “local” for CSULB transfer purposes.
Cal Poly SLO looks at the transfer applicant’s “home domicile”, rather than the high school or community college. Not sure what that means. If you graduate from SLO High, then attend CCSF, can you qualify as “local” for Cal Poly if you claim your parent’s address in SLO as your “home domicile”? Alternatively, if you go to high school in Long Beach, and then move to SLO to attend Cuesta College (the local CC), can you qualify as “local” for Cal Poly by claiming your address in SLO as your “home domicile”? I don’t know, but am curious.