You get priority with extra impaction points for being local to SJSU, but the threshold can change each year for all majors and CS is not guaranteed as a local SJSU HS student. I know of at least one local student not admitted to CS that posted on CC.
The SJSU impaction index is HS_GPA * 800. Since the one for CS is 3400, dividing by 800 gives a 4.25 HS GPA needed, if the applicant does not have any bonus points (e.g. +200 (equivalent to +0.25 GPA) for being a local area applicant).
These were the competitively-determined admission thresholds for fall 2021 admission. Note that these numbers were published around the time they were issuing decisions for fall 2021 (not before), and that the page says that provisionally admitted applicants included âApplicants who met the impaction threshold for their primary major as listed below.â
While they have some predictive value for those applying for fall 2022, they can be different for fall 2022 due to changes in how competitive the pool is for each major.
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Graduating high school in Santa Clara County gives you a +200 point bonus, equivalent to +0.25 on HS GPA, for SJSU frosh admission.
At SJSU, CS was the most selective major â most majors there were much less selective (see the linked SJSU web page with the impaction results for fall 2021.
AHHH, and CS doesnât include the extra math points that all the other engineering disciplines do, so it looks deceivingly more easy to get into! 
You may want to re-run that. Itâs nearly impossible to get above 4.30 if you include 9th, 10th and 11th grades, especially if youâve had any Bs. In reality, itâs tough to get above 4.20.
My son calculated out to 4.32 and Iâve never seen one higher. He had 25 semester hours (which is low for most schools), all As. The reason he could get that high is that he went to a catholic affiliated prep school and his religion classes werenât included in his total hours as they donât fall into a-g. That lowered his total calculated hours. As you can see, the fewer classes one has, the more impact the honors/AP/IB bonus has.
The only way to get to 4.33 with 2 Bs is to have 16 semesters of A. I seriously doubt that in 3 years you only took 9 classes (16 semesters of A and 2 of B). My guess is that you counted more than 8 semester hours of honors/AP/IB.
I actually also go to a religiously affiliated private prep school, but I forgot that 9th grade isnât factored into the UC capped GPA (my school has a portal with an automatic CSU/UC GPA calculator). With 9th grade, I believe it comes out to around 4.29
You need to run it yourself. WIth 2 Bs, itâs not likely a 4.29 either. The only way to hit that with 2 Bs is to have taken only 3 a-g courses some semesters.
If you were to have only taken 4 a-g classes per semester and received As all semesters for every class, and just 2 semesters of Bs, the best you can do is 4.25, assuming 8 semesters of honors/AP/IB. Iâd be surprised if you took fewer than 4 a-g courses per semester.
Your grades also donât say whether or not your Bs were just for a single semester. I suspect they were with an UW GPA, but I could be wrong.
I say this because schools re-run these. They donât rely on your self reported grades. You want a very good handle of this number because at nearly every school it will be the number one factor they consider.
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