CSU to shrink and admit far fewer students

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<p>BfloGal, this is a Title I school. Many kids come from families where no one has graduated from high school, let alone attended college. Large population of ESL learners, kids getting free school lunches. </p>

<p>The school is trying out a program which is supposed to educate kids and their families about what’s needed for college, starting in 9th grade. There are supplemental Saturday and after-school tutoring programs, evening info sessions, day trips to local colleges, the works. Next year’s senior class (D1’s class) will be the first to go through the program. It’ll be interesting to see what the college application period is like for next year’s 12th graders.</p>

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<p>I suppose it is a fair way to deal with the situation: admit qualified students to the local CSU and then out-of-area students after those slots have been filled. It looks like S will have a guaranteed spot at SJSU since we are in Santa Clara County but he wants to go to an out-of-area CSU. We just have to wait and wonder like everyone else what his chances are of acceptance at the out-of-area CSU.</p>

<p>S is completely uninterested in leaving CA so although all the advice/suggestions to look outside CA make complete sense, for some kids, it is not an option to them. </p>

<p>I sure wish this budget crisis hadn’t happened right when S was heading off to college, but that is life. He’ll hopefully have a couple good options to choose from, and if not, we will have to come up with a plan B.</p>

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<p>We could easily add more through-put to existing campuses with a little creativity. For example, offer a full summer program such as is done at Dartmouth, which would increase student capacity by 33% with no additional costs in physical plant – of course, the academic senate vetoed it. (Think about Santa Barbara or La Jolla in the summer!) Or how about offering ELC students free tuition at a UC/CSU if they attend a community college for one or two years, first? Or, offering such students a huge fee discount, but only for four years? Or, charging higher fees to kids who are hanging around for that second or third degree? Or, putting some of the best and brightest faculty members on a study to isolate a few keys which cause a low four year grad rate - – if we increase that number, more slots immediately become available. (I have several neighbors whose kids took the 5-year plan at SLO on purpose! While I don’t blame them, the state ought not allow folks just to hang around bcos it’s a wonderful experience.)</p>

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<p>Sad state of affairs in the California school system. And no easy solution in sight!</p>

<p>Question for anyone: what determines whether you are “local” or not? Is it by zip codes perhaps?</p>

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<p>^^ If you go to the particular CSU’s website you should be able to find it. I found it for the two local CSUs (SDSU, CSUSM). I think there was another CSU thread not long ago where someone included a link that might have indicated the areas so you might want to search CC for ‘CSU’ and look for that.</p>

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<p>Thank you! I’ll look again in CSUF again.</p>

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<p>petiza, I think this is what you’re looking for</p>

<p>[CSUF</a> Admissions and Records - Requirements](<a href=“http://www.fullerton.edu/admissions/ProspectiveStudent/Requirements.asp]CSUF”>Redirect)</p>

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<p>Thank you RSBuletz!!! As an LA County resident, I don’t know if I’ll make it but we’ll see – I have decent grades. Thanks again!</p>

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<p>Historymom: The data I read was for CA, I believe, the source was Mercury news.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/ed...unity.html?hpw[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/ed...unity.html?hpw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I have to get moving on signing daughter up for dual-enrollment courses for the Spring at her CC. I’m sure that they will fill up very quickly.</p>

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<p>Thanks vvs. I wonder how that compares with a national average. It seems low to me. Did that surprise you?</p>

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<p>Yes, at first, but then I started thinking about all the people taking classes there. So many are middle age people changing careers, or just taking a few classes because their company pays for them to get a certificate…If they only counted recent HS grads then yes, it would be very low.</p>