CSULB 2018 acceptance rate change this year???

A record breaking high for CSULB this year as a total of 102,000 applicants applied. They stated that they will only accept 8.5k students. I am confused how this is possible? 8,500/102,000 = 8.3% acceptance rate? I did my research on previous years and they were about 34% acceptance rates, so out of 60,000 applicants, 19,000+ got accepted. I just dont understand how it can be even lower this year?

I can understand if there is an association if the more number of applicants the lower the admitted rate is, but I dont get why it’s not about 20,000 admitted but it’s only 8,500?

I hope that’s a mistake

Morning @orionary

8,500 is probably the Freshman / Transfer student total of students who accept the admittance offer rather than total offered admission which would be much higher. Question please, Do you have a link to those #'s?

@orionary

Found article, 8500 is the student seats available, but they will offer admission to far greater than 8500, as thousands of people decline the admission offer as CSULB isn’t their first choice school

http://web.csulb.edu/newsroom/long-beach-state-university-sets-record-with-more-than-102000-undergraduate-applications-for-fall-2018-term/

@Calstates thank you for clarifying. I was thinking the exact same thing. They shouldn’t have said only 8,500 will be accepted, that can lead many people to think otherwise.

Most schools will accept 3 times as many applicants than spots since not all accepted applicants will matriculate.

Last year CSULB had 63,033 Freshman applicants. They accepted 17,667 and enrolled 4100.