[quote=deadzone]Well my brother had to move away from San Diego to get that position, and in any case I have no interest in finance or in being a work-aholic so I wouldn’t trade my life for his.
All I know is I get to go surfing every morning then drive to work in a very fast car and unlike many of you guys, I’m not stressed out about saving money to send my kid to Ivy league because I recognize that my kid will have plenty of opportunity for success if he attends a lower cost school which won’t break the bank such as SDSU.[/quote]
Deadzone, I don’t know how old your kid is but he would do well to apply to 6-8 CSUs at one time using the CSU Mentor. SDSU isn’t as easy as it once was to get into and it received over 80K freshman apps for fall 2014. Even local HS students are held to high standards for admission. In Fall 2014, the students in my kid’s senior class of 2014 who DID get accepted into SDSU had a avg 3.9 GPA and most had a handful of advanced-placement classes on their HS transcripts as well.
There are several CSU campuses located in areas where housing costs are a little (or a lot) lower than SD housing costs so all is not lost if your kid doesn’t make it into SDSU as a freshman.
One of my SDSU-student neighbors told me that a community college transfer applicant to SDSU now needs at least a 2.8 GPA and either an AA-T (Assoc Art) or AA-S (Assoc Science) degree from a community college to be accepted as a junior (a 3.0 GPA from CC is better).
If your kid begins college at a community college, they need to finish their AA-T or AS-T degree at community college before attempting to transfer to the CSU. ONLY THOSE TWO (above) degrees are now accepted for transfer into a CSU Bachelor degree program (NOT a “general studies” associate degree or occupational associate degree, as in the past). Completion of the AA-T/AS-T degree at a CC shows the applicant has taken all the correct GE’s for CSU admission and so the CSU will no longer accept a CC student for transfer with less than the necessary 60 units completed at CC for the AA-T or AS-T degree. This means the college student BEGINNING at CC MUST COMPLETE their AA-T/AS-T degree at CC before attempting to apply to the CSU. In other words, a new CC freshman is essentially locked into remaining at CC for at least two years if their eventual goal is CSU admission.
