<p>[CSU</a> to close door on spring 2013 enrollment](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/19/BAPL1NN1KR.DTL&tsp=1]CSU”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/19/BAPL1NN1KR.DTL&tsp=1)</p>
<p>Basically, CSU is reducing capacity in response to budget cuts.</p>
<p>Since many UC applicants are using CSUs as safeties, students in this position should realize that the reduced capacity means that CSUs will be more selective than historically, so students looking in the CSU system for safeties need to include less selective CSUs than they would based on previous years’ admission stats.</p>
<p>what if a student can’t get in either a UC or CSU.</p>
<p>That’s impossible,unless this student’s gpa is below 2.0…</p>
<p>If there is a substantial reduction in the number of transfer students that public universities accept than many current CCC students will have no alternative other than applying to a private college or university or an OOS public school. In either case the cost of attendence will be much greater and could make it impossible for some CCC students to eventually earn a BA/BS.</p>
<p>It is also unlikely that private colleges could offer transfer as juniors to such a large number of CCC students. UCs and CSUs had been required to reserve 60% of their capacity for upper division students so that there would be space available to take transfers from CCCs plus they are required to give admission priority to CCC transfers. It looks like the CSUs plan to abandon that practice so they will not have to reject so many freshmen applicants as they would have had they kept admitting large numbers of CCC transfers. Private universities are unlikely to have a policy of accepting large numbers of transfers so they will probably be able to take a handful of the CCC students shut out of CSUs. Also, they are under no obligation to give admission priority to transfers from CCCs.</p>
<p>Applicants to the lower tier UCs are likely to face more competition for transfer since many CSU transfer applicants from CCCs probably have GPAs comparable to CCC students applying to and currently being accepted by UC Merced, UC Riverside and UCSC but preferred some of the more highly regarded CSUs to these UCs. Now they will not have that option.</p>
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<p>Students have to set their sights lower on the selectivity scale, including applying to non-impacted CSUs. However, if CSUs have to keep reducing capacity, it is possible that the number of non-impacted CSUs could shrink to zero.</p>
<p>Also note that those students who wanted to transfer to CSU in spring 2013 will now be adding to the number of applicants competing for fall 2013 admissions.</p>
<p>Perusing the thread on who has heard from CSUs it seems that already a substantial number of CCC transfer applicants applying to CSUs as safety schools, despite having very impressive CCC GPAs, are largely being rejected by the more selective CSUs like Cal Poly SLO, SDSU and SJSU and Cal Poly Pomona. The news article seems to imply that the CSUs are putting a priority on protecting their freshmen admit numbers even if it means a major reduction in CCC transfer admits.</p>
<p>Freshman admission is getting more selective at CSUs also – some very high stats freshman applicants have reported rejections or waitlistings at SLO, and some of [SJSU’s</a> Fall 2012 Freshman Impaction](<a href=“http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1328.html]SJSU’s”>http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1328.html) thresholds are much higher than those for Fall 2011 (I don’t recall any majors last year needing an eligibility index over 4000).</p>
<p>The CSU system got hit hard. Austerity sucks.</p>