California residents have no shortage of phenomenal public institutions within the borders of their home state. UC Davis, for example, ranks in the top 40 national universities and in the top 10 public universities in…

Only one-quarter of the 111,000 freshman applicants to UC Santa Barbara are admitted. This makes the school about three times as selective as it was back in the late 1990s. In fact, UCLA in that…

Now accepting just 30%-40% of freshman applicants, San Diego State University is one of the more selective schools in the California State University (CSU) system. Unless your high school GPA is 3.75 or better, gaining…

If you want to attend UC San Diego as a freshman, you’ll need to possess close to a 4.0 cumulative high school GPA. However, if you feel short of perfection in high school, there is…

You long to become a member of the Wolfpack, but you don’t have the stellar grades and test scores to get admitted to NC State directly out of high school. No problem—all hope is not…

Florida State University accepts less than one-third of freshman applicants and the mid-50% GPA for admitted students is 4.3-4.6. Given this spectacularly high level of selectivity, many aspiring Seminoles are unable to begin their academic…