New
admission policies restrict freshmen
By Rachelle Youngman
On-line Forty-Niner
Fall
semester 2002 will be the first time that
Cal State Long Beach has been impacted at
the freshman level.
Because of the increased amount of students
applying every fall the Enrollment Management
Committee developed a plan to curb admissions
at CSULB.
The Enrollment Management Committee’s plan
requires higher Scholastic Aptitude Test
or American College Testing scores and higher
high school GPAs for applicants that did
not graduate from local school districts.
This plan, which is now in effect for the
first time, determined which freshman were
admitted for the fall semester of 2002 and
will continue this process through Fall
2003.
“Fall semester of 2001 had 2,000 to 3,000
more freshman applicants that the year before,”
said Gloria Kapp, senior director of Admissions
and Systems. “It looks like fall 2003 will
be similar to this fall.”
Students outside the local area must have
just over a 3.0 GPA and a score of around
1000 on a SAT or ACT.
Students from districts including Long Beach
Unified, Compton, Los Alamitos and Huntington
Beach only have to meet the minimum requirements.
CSULB is responsible for getting admissions
applications to schools within these districts.
There is also a middle group in which students
must have slightly higher test scores and
GPA’s than the students in the local area,
but not as high of scores as those students
outside the local area.
Approximately 60 high schools are included
in the two lowest requirement groups.
“We have turned away many, many more freshman
than we have ever had to before,” said Kapp.
“We give them the option to redirect their
application.”
Depending on the number of applicants each
semester, the Enrollment Management Committee
can raise or lower the requirements.
Currently the plan affects first time freshman
applicants, however, according to Kapp,
if the number of applicants continues to
increase then a plan will most likely be
developed to control transfer student admissions
as well.
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