Cal State Fullerton raises admission standards for nonlocal community college students

CSUF makes it tougher to gain admission (OC Reg)

     Due to uncertainty in state funding, Cal State Fullerton has required higher admission standards to limit enrollment and decrease its student population.
     The campus will have approximately 1,000 fewer students in the fall than the year before, and around 2,500 fewer students from fall 2008, said Ed Trotter, acting associate vice president for undergraduate programs.
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     For this school year, CSUF has announced that it has received far more applications than it can accommodate and has, therefore, required supplemental applications and higher admission standards for nonlocal applicants to limit enrollment.
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     CSUF received a record 56,132 undergraduate applications for the coming fall, a 32 percent increase from last year.
     For non-local community college students who wanted to transfer to CSUF, their minimum grade point average requirement is 3.7, up from 2.5 last year, [assistant vice president of enrollment services Nancy] Dority said. Traditionally, a 2.0 GPA, which is the minimum required for local applicants, would have sufficed.
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     Because of fewer course offerings and professors, Trotter said CSUF will have more crowded classrooms in the fall than last year.
     CSUF has nearly 200 fewer professors this year than last year, most of whom are part-time faculty or lecturers whose annual contracts were not renewed by the university….