<p>Word around my school is that this year colleges like Cal Poly, UC’s and CSU’s are rejecting tons of kids that have stats that would have easily earned them acceptances last year. The reason… THE ECONOMY. Lots of kids that have extremely high stats, high enough to walk into the most selective and expensive private schools nationwide, chose instead to apply to financial safeties this year and have bumped tons of typical Cal Poly candidates. Seems the stock market and housing crunch caught up to their college funds or their parents spendable income and 18K a year is a whole lot easier to swallow than 45K-50K. The ‘trickle down’ effect strikes again.</p>
<p>Looks like a lot of CC’s will be full this fall, just in time for budget cutbacks.
Be advised if this is your plan B, enroll early to get the classes you need. </p>
<p>-sara</p>
<p>Capitalism strikes again! Students of the world unite, before it is too late!</p>
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<p>Be careful of ‘[correlation</a> = causation’](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation]correlation”>Correlation does not imply causation - Wikipedia) fallacies…not a good way to go through life.</p>
<p>Hopefully, the school you end up attending will pass along the discipline of following up a hypothesis with empirical evidence to support it. Your assertion may or may not be accurate, but absent evidence it’s just a rumor.</p>
<p>CC is slowly becoming the norm…</p>
<p>Oh, it’s not my assertion, but one I’d like to see explored. (Too lazy to do this myself, so spread the rumor and see how it plays out?) Gotta start with a correlation to prove causation.</p>
<p>-sara</p>
<p>Hm. I’m not sure if picking apart her statement was necessary. I think most of us got her point. It’s totally obvious that it is a rumor, as she stated, “word is at my school..”</p>
<p>That’s a given.</p>
<p>I think for the most part, it is true. I think the economy is presenting a problem for higher education, not just in california, but nationwide as well..</p>
<p>Big budget cuts at the CSU’s are already a fact.</p>
<p>I think the bar is set higher this year because of the combination of these two reasons:</p>
<p>budged cut and the baby booming era.</p>
<p>1990 was the peak of the baby booming era, more babies were born in 1990 then in any other year. So for the class of 2008 that means more applicants and the budget decreased the number of open spots causing the standards to be raised.</p>
<p>The economy is clearly an issue with higher education. Many people at my school are getting bumped from their top choice which they would have been a low match to. Unfair? Yes. But what can you do? I said myself, I think many people are going to be going to CC this year with plans to transfer, and that will make transfering in two years just as hard… Great.</p>
<p>CC’s are one of the best values around. Not very prestigious, but a great place to get all that general ed stuff out of the way and build your GPA. Why pay $200-400 a unit for something you can get at a CC for $20 a unit? Many times, transfers are less competitive than being a FTF. There will be no distinction between being a transfer student or a 4 year student when interviewing for your first job out of school. The only downside is what your high school friends think. By October their memory will have faded and it won’t matter anymore.</p>
<p>Yes, it is the economy, it is the bubble and it is also the hype that says if you don’t get ito X school your life will be ruined. Remember US News and World report is selling magazines. The colleges like the free advertising having good ranks. They like top students because it makes it easy to attract endowments (money), and sites like this feed all of that by striking fear in our hearts that there will be no space for us. But pay them money and they will help you get it. Buy now, time is running out. only a few left!</p>
<p>Good reason to vote for Obama-Change you Can Believe in-Yes we can.-not kidding, lets not fund a 100 year war and not be able to afford college…</p>
<p>Cutting education when your country is falling behind is like cutting salesmen when sales are down. Yea Bro, we need a change.</p>
<p>There are two sides to the issue Logicaldog. It is not as easy as saying “Okay we’re done” (the War in Iraq).</p>
<p>No one has a definite way to finish the war. I don’t think persuing war forever is a good idea and neither is ending the war abruptly. </p>
<p>As a moderate liberal, I tend to side with Mccain on the economy issue, because just adding more and more taxes will not help anyone. It is the wasted spending in Washington. As for the war, I side with noone. </p>
<p>Oh and by the way, Obama likes to say that McCain will be in the war for 100 years. He did not say that, and I quite dislike hearing Obama supporters in la la land believing everything he says. What McCain said and meant was that he would be in this war as long as it took to finish. He simply stated the 100 year remark to emphasize his point, but he did not mean that he would push America into being into a century long war.</p>
<p>Cali Trumpet:</p>
<p>Nice arguments…If you were to leave San Francisco, the city’s average IQ would probably see a significant drop. :)</p>