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California State University flooded with fall 2010 applications
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California State University flooded with fall 2010 applications
California State University flooded with fall 2010 applications
The CSU system began accepting applications online this month for fall admission next year. University administrators say it’s been like opening a floodgate. Since October 1st, Cal State received more than 100,000 applications for roughly 90,000 openings in the fall of next year. That’s about twice as many applications as it got in the same period last year.
Popular Cal State campuses, including those in Fullerton, Long Beach, Pomona, and Northridge, expect to stop accepting applications at the end of next month.
Allison Jones, Cal State’s chief of academic affairs, said the application surge has a lot to do with more transfer applications from community college students. Many of those students would apply for spring term admission, but the administrator says budget cuts forced the university to do away with spring admission.
He says many high school seniors are heeding Cal State’s warning to apply early and to several campuses because state budget cuts are forcing the 23-campus system to cut admissions by 40,000 students in the next two years.
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