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FYI folks: SDSU rec’d ~78K freshman and transfer apps for fall 2014 and only admitted ~7700 (<10%).
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SDSU’s acceptance rate is way higher than 10%. Not even UCLA/Berkeley has that acceptance rate.
The 7700 figure that you quoted are the total number of students that will enroll out of the admitted students. Not all admitted students will enroll. The yield rate (enrolled/admitted) for SDSU is pretty low. Last year there are 50K+ applied, 20K+ accepted but only 3.6K enrolled as freshmen. The figure for Fall 2014 s/b not be that far off from last year.
Thanks for that report, nla (although it doesn’t print correctly for me). Yes, my bad. You are correct. ~7700 is the total number of accepted undergraduates who will enroll at SDSU for Fall 2014. 78K undergrad applications for Fall 2014 is a record number for SDSU!
nla, isn’t your student a 2014 graduate of a Sweetwater school? What are you hearing from Compact for Success-eligible students and parents who applied to SDSU but were rejected after satisfying all the terms of their compact by the end of their junior year? I’ve heard from several of my kid’s friends and/or their parent as well as several parents at the gym that their compact-eligible seniors were turned down for freshman admission to SDSU. Not only for fall 2014 but for the last three academic years.
My own 2014 graduate was rejected for admission to SDSU, was compact-eligible and declared a major. In our case, SDSU was not my kid’s 1st or even 2nd choice school so it turned out okay. But what about all those Sweetwater graduates whose parents can’t afford housing in another county?
Keep in mind that Compact-eligible students being accepted on that premise to SDSU must have attended grades 7 through 12 in the Sweetwater District (submit a senior transcript from same district as a condition of their eventual matriculation into SDSU after admission and acceptance).
I’m just failing to see what all the brouhaha was about when all the parents were invited to an awards assembly at the end of junior year and ~300 “compact eligible” juniors came up on stage to get their “Guaranteed Admission” certificates to SDSU. What’s the point of all this if SDSU has no intention in honoring but a small percentage of them??
In addition, I’ve had neighbors who were having trouble getting into SDSU/UCSD from CC after successfully satisfying all of their GE’s (60 units) for university admission as a junior. There are currently two that I’m aware of still living at home and I have to check to see if they finally got into SDSU/UCSD for fall 2014. One of them has taken two years off to work so far waiting to get admitted to a local public university. It’s tough these days for a college student who can’t afford to pay for housing and won’t take out a student loan.
This is another reason why I preferred my kids didn’t start college at CC. Once admitted to a university as a freshman, the student is allowed to stay and continue as long as they keep their grades up. For a solid “B” student, getting admitted to university in CA is more than half the battle. If I’m to “go away” to hole myself up in the mtns in “retirement,” I would rather do that knowing my kid is already enrolled in a school they can get a Bachelor degree from. If they want to later apply to transfer to another CSU as a junior, more power to them! But if they get turned down for admission again, they can stay. No harm done.
Severe impaction of degree programs at the CSUs makes it a jungle out there, folks, and you and your student will need to spray on more and more bug repellant as the years roll by. GOOD LUCK to all Pigg parents and their students!
