The Compact for Success guarantees admission to students starting with the class of 2006 who attend Sweetwater schools from seventh through 12th grades, maintain a 3.0 grade-point average in college preparatory courses and do not need to take remedial courses as college freshmen.

Students also must take the SAT or ACT college entrance exam, but there is no minimum score necessary to qualify for admission.

San Ysidro High had been the only Sweetwater school excluded from the compact.

SDSU spokesman Jack Beresford said San Ysidro High's entrance into the compact is not official until SDSU President Stephen Weber and Sweetwater Superintendent Ed Brand sign an addendum to the memorandum establishing the agreement. However, Weber had extended the compact to all Sweetwater schools in a letter dated Oct. 9.

Neither Sweetwater nor SDSU would release the letter yesterday.

San Ysidro Middle School is the only remaining public middle or high school in South County not in the compact.

The middle school is in the San Ysidro School District.

San Ysidro Superintendent Jorge Parra and Sweetwater Assistant Superintendent Larry Perondi said San Ysidro Middle School is likely to be admitted soon.

"We're very hopeful that we'll hear the news any day now," Parra said.

San Ysidro High students who did not attend either San Ysidro Middle or one of Sweetwater's middle schools will not be eligible for guaranteed admission to SDSU.

"It's a very big deal," Parra said of San Ysidro Middle's imminent inclusion in the compact. "Our kids will be as competitive academically as any other student in the South Bay, and that's what we want to guarantee."