Proposed Change to Impaction Designation

Thank you for taking the time to visit our site regarding the Proposed Change to Impaction Designation for California State University, Long Beach. We sincerely appreciate your insight but we are no longing soliciting feedback but thank you for your time and support. Below are the comments from our community. 

Comment #1:

I have been a counselor at Norwalk High School for 21 years. Over the years, I have seen my students get denied more and more from the local Cal States. I have students with a 4.1 or higher GPA get denied from CSULB.  We pride ourselves on getting our students college/career ready. More and more of our students take AP and honor classes. They take 3 to 4 years of world language, 3 to 4 years of science and 4 years of math. We have career pathways and AVID to help prepare them.

We are a title one school. Many of our students are first generation. Many cannot afford to move away and pay to live at college. For example, I have students denied from our local CSU, but will be accepted to San Francisco or San Jose State. To attend there, they have to pay for housing. Also, culturally many of our students’ parents have a difficult time having them move far.

Recently, I have had students personally tell me that they are leaving our district, because they know it is harder to be accepted to local Cal states by being at NHS. If they move to a district next door it is easier from them to get into CSULB.

NLMUSD works very closely with CSULB School Counseling Dept. There are CSULB school counseling interns placed at all our middle schools. The high schools also have interns. NHS currently have four CSULB school counselor interns. We support your students and they support us.

Comment #2:

I am so thrilled that CSULB will finally take NLMUSD out of the "no man's land" that we have been stuck in for years. I grew up in Norwalk and have worked at John Glenn High School, as a counselor, for 30 years.  Throughout those years, it has always been so frustrating to see some of our best and brightest students denied admission to the Cal State of their choice.  Especially when I would hear of students in neighboring districts, who had been accepted to CSULB, but had only met minimum entrance requirements. Since I live in Long Beach and am a graduate of CSULB, I am aware of local students, who have had average grades/SAT scores, but were accepted to CSULB. Most of those students came from middle and upper middle class backgrounds and had opportunities and privileges that our students have not had.  In this era of "equal access and opportunity" and a focus on closing the inequality gap, I am happy to see that our students will now finally be given the same access and opportunities that students in surrounding districts have enjoyed for years. And that is all our students need. An equal shot. I don't expect them to be coddled, given extra privileges or "just handed" an education. I expect them to work hard and earn that diploma! But, I know that, given that chance, they will be as successful as any of the other students who have been admitted to CSULB.  And they will make us all proud! Go Beach!

Comment #3:

Norwalk La Mirada Unified School District has no neighborhood school to support our students.  We are a tight community and most students want to stay close to home while attending college.   The closest universities to us such as CSULB and CSUF for some reason do not include us as their neighborhood school despite our close proximity.  We support have hosted CSULB Counseling Interns for the past few years and have close ties with them.  It makes sense to include us as a neighborhood school to best serve the students in our community.  They are amazing students and are working hard to get a quality education.  Thank you for your support.

Comment #4:

NLMUSD has not had the advantage that other school districts have had allowing them to be a feeder school for the College Promise program.  I know first hand the advantage LBUSD has had and I feel these students are equally deserving.  If there is an accommodation to make, we could raise the GPA. They are fortunate to have Cerritos College as their community college designee.

Comment #5:

I am a high school graduate from Southeast Academy High school. I had previously attended Gahr High school for two years before moving to Southeast. My senior year at Southeast I had an overall GPA of 3.7, yet I was fearful to not get accepted into CSULB. I knew I had a higher chance of getting accepted into CSULB if I went to Gahr because their district gets priority. So I decided to start my application to move back to Gahr. At the end I did not leave southeast because I had a much better experience there. I was declined from CSULB. Filling out applications was a very stressful process, because I knew I had less of a chance because of the school district I was in.