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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 admission to SDSU is going to be an uphill battle. Yet, the first-year application...

Only about one-quarter of the 100,000 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 era had a much higher acceptance rate than UCSB does in 2024. To...

If you desire to call yourself a University of California Irvine Anteater, you are far from alone. With over 121,000 freshman applicants, UCI can only accept about 25% of that large pool, and those who attend have a median high school GPA of 4.2. If you didn’t quite hit...

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 lost. While still a competitive process, this school extends offers to around 2,000 qualified...

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 fell short of perfection in high school, there is still a viable path toward becoming a Triton. In fact, an astounding 12,000+ transfer...

For those applying as first-year applicants, Barnard College has a single-digit acceptance rate. The standards for this Columbia-affiliated women’s college have reached full-blown Ivy League levels. More promising for prospective applicants is the fact that Barnard remains an extremely transfer-friendly school. In fact, they ultimately accept an encouraging 150-250...