...nobody notices as CSU campuses quietly cut back on enrollment for budgetary reasons. But when UC says it will cut back enrollment, there are headlines, legislative hearings, etc. Just saying. [From the LA Times]
Diego Aguilar Avila enrolled in Cal State Northridge last fall, and the freshman says he's lucky to have gotten in when he did. The
Northridge campus recently announced plans to tighten its admission
criteria beginning in fall 2016. That could have created a hurdle for
Avila, who admits to receiving low grades in some of his classes at
Bravo Medical Magnet High School in East Los Angeles. "I might not
have gotten a second chance to go to a very good school because of the
one year I messed up in high school," said the 18-year-old philosophy
major, "so I'm happy to be able to come here." The Northridge
proposal is an attempt to control unprecedented demand; enrollment
increased to more than 40,000 students in 2014 from about 35,000 in
2009. The school received more than 58,000 applications for fall 2015. The
campus is aiming to reduce its entering undergraduate class 1%, or
about 300 students in each of the next four years. To achieve that goal,
high school graduates and transfer students from outside the local area
will need to meet higher admission standards — which could include
increased grade-point averages, test scores or other criteria...
Full story at http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-cal-state-admit-20150309-story.html
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