[quote=yamashi1][quote=bearishgurl]Public universities in CA don’t even care what extracurricular activities your kid did in HS! My kids were BUSY in HS with a rigorous schedule of performing in HS’s all over the state for YEARS and the CSU mentor (application portal for the CSU Admissions Board) gave them no credit whatsoever for it[/quote]From my experience I have found this to be false. Not sure what CSU schools require for admission, but when I was applying to numerous undergraduate schools this was a large part of the admission criteria. In addition, many essays required me to use material from my extracurricular activities to display my leadership abilities etc; and when interviewed I was always asked these questions.[/quote]yamashi, the CSU hasn’t required or even wanted an essay from an applicant in at least ten years. I don’t believe the UC requires essays for admission, either. (Any Pigg please correct me if I’m wrong about this.)
And neither system uses the writing portion of the SAT to factor into an applicant’s composite SAT score. If they did, the SAT scores of those many thousands of “deep-pocketed” foreign applicants (who “look good” on paper but often have little command of the English language in real life) would fall …. hard …. thus, the UC/CSU wouldn’t be able to admit as many full-freight-paying freshmen who have the financial ability to “stick it out” for the long haul. I’m sure they feel they need to admit as many foreign applicants as possible to keep their “budgets balanced.”
