Hey everyone! Me and my family are considering moving to san diego from Chicago next month
I’m now attending a local community in Chicago and have completed 42 credits so far with a gpa of 3.5. My goal is to major in marketing. My plan is to keep attending a community college in the san diego area until i get at least 60 semester unite. The IGTECH form for California confirms that all my classes will transfer to grossmont college in San Diego and i will be able to earn my Associates from grossmont. my concern is the admission to SDSU which should be on fall of 2020. Their website mentions that in order to get a guaranteed admission i have to get all of my transferable credits from a local San Diego area college. If I don’t they’ll go by the other criteria ( not guaranteed admission in this case) such as completion of the associates degree from a local community college.
What are my chances of being admitted in this case?
Depends upon your GPA, intended major, what required courses you have completed and which ones be completed by Spring 2020. Do you have the Golden four GE’s completed ? Will you have at least 60 units Completed by Spring?
Golden Four" courses (Oral Communication, Written Communication, Critical Thinking, Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning)
You will also be paying OOS fees until you establish residency.
Have you applied already to SDSU for Fall 2020 since the application period has ended? Are all your Chicago CC units transferable to SDSU since that is what your admission will be based?
The move decision is very recent so I’ll have to get in for fall 2021 and maybe take open university courses in spring 2021 depending on the situation.
- All of my courses will be transferable since they’ll satisfy the IGETC of California community colleges
-GPA is 3.5 currently
- i have 42 credits currently which means i can take 28 more credits In cc I’m looking to attend in san diego.
The minimum is 60 units by Spring prior to transfer but the maximum transferable is 70 units and anything over that amount will be given subject credit. If you are applying for Fall 2021, then you will be close to establishing CA residency and be considered local for SDSU as a transfer which gives you priority but not a guarantee.
My goal is SDSU, but if I’m unable to get in what would be my other options for business major around the San Diego area ?
- University of San Diego which is a Catholic Private University which has several Business majors and a Business school.
https://www.sandiego.edu/business/undergraduate/
- Point Loma University which is a private University and offers several Business majors:
https://www.pointloma.edu/undergraduate/programs
- University of California, San Diego which does not specifically have a business school or specific business majors but they offer Economics and Business Management.
https://economics.ucsd.edu/
- Cal State San Marcos which is another Cal state in the Northern San Diego County.
https://www.csusm.edu/coba/index.html
@Basheer100: UC San Diego does have a Business/Management school for Graduate studies but only offers minors for Undergraduates.
Is it possible for me to consult an advisor from SDSU over the phone to ask them about my chances of being admitted? What do you think of my overall chances ( my major is marketing)?
You could contact SDSU but it might be more productive to contact the transfer advisor at the San Diego CC instead. If you do not plan to transfer until Fall 2021, then you still have a long way to go 3 semesters not counting summer session to complete and meet the transfer requirements. The CC advisor could give you a better idea on how you compare and if you are competitive.
Thank you so much! Your answers will definitely guide me in the right direction.
All the info from @Gumbymom is spot on. My daughter did one year in Colorado (she is from San Diego) and then transferred into a CC local to SDSU. Her councelor told her the only way to have the best chance to get into SDSU is to get her AD-T (Associate Degree for Transfer) in Business Admin-General Business from the local CC and then If admitted, request a change of major within the Business Program after she starts school at SDSU-she wants to do accounting- because if she applied to transfer as a ‘Business- Accounting major with out-of-state credits she would basically be down in Tier 3/4 (Tier 1 being students with 100% of their credits coming from a local CC and all pre-reqs done, Tier 2 being local CC and most credits done etc) but with an AD-T from a local CC she would have top priority (tier 1) even though some of her credits were OOS. They only care about where the AD-T was earned. Hope this makes sense?
Also, further to the above, my daughter also takes Open University classes at SDSU so if you have any questions about that please let me know. You can DM me if you need anymore info.
@dogrunner1
Thank you for the info! I have some questions for you and it would be great if you could please answer them! Since I’m new i couldn’t figure out how to dm you.
How many credits did your daughter earn in the local cc of san Diego? i have finished most of the classes needed for Business ADT but i need a good number of courses to have my IGTC. Also, did your daughter establish a residency in San Diego by the time she applied for SDSU? I believe @Gumbymom mentioned that being a resident gives a priority.
@Basheer100 she is already a resident and has been from the start (I think you need to live here for one year and have driver’s license, proof of house rental etc to establish residency) and she basically had to start from scratch at CC and has done 57 credits (includes the American Institutions requirements also).
And I think if you want to DM me, click on my profile and you should be able to message me
@dogrunner1
Did the cc advisor mention if she gets priority because she’s a resident? I checked the ADT transfer pathway and it mentioned nothing about residency. Also, why did she have to start from scratch if she took General education courses which are easy to transfer generally?
I think i need 15 replies or posts on my new account to be able to DM:(
@Basheer100: Not sure why you want to complete your IGETC since if you read below, there seems to be no benefit in your circumstances and major. If a Business degree is what you are targeting, you do not need the IGETC. Your ADT completion with the CSU GE Breadth requirement will fulfill the transfer requirements unless you plan to apply to a UC?
** IGETC for STEM is a pattern of courses currently only available to students earning an associate degree for transfer (ADT) at a California community college in a major that explicitly offers IGETC for STEM as an option.
Students transferring to a CSU with a completed IGETC will still need to complete 9 semester units of upper- division general education (GE) after transfer and may be held to other campus specific graduation requirements outside of general education and major coursework.**
@Gumbymom Thank you for noting this for me. I was told about the IGETC because my friend is a bio student at uc san diego so she confused it with CSU requirements.
So far, it looks like getting a business admin AS-T looks like the best way for me to get in since it never mentions anything about residency. They just want me to finish it in a local CC of SDSU.
My issue now is that the local CC enrollment center won’t transfer my calls to their advisors because they prohibit phone advising. The information makes the situation look okay but i still need to confirm with the cc advisor to avoid any surprises.