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I don’t think SDSU was being unduly harsh and that the real issue was that the student firstly didn’t keep his GPA up to the required level (I understand he had challenges in the last year but that’s not really SDSU’s issue) and secondly, either didn’t check the SDSU transfer admissions GPA requirement for his major or ignored it and just hoped it wouldn’t be a problem. I found the GPA requirements on their website in about 10 seconds. It’s hard to imagine that there are many transfer students who aren’t aware there’s a GPA requirement for the college and possibly the major. </p>
<p>SDSU gets apps and transcripts from many thousands students and can’t be expected to respond to them all instantly - especially if they might be suffering from admin staff cuts and furloughs. In addition I wouldn’t be surprised if the people processing transcripts and the people handling orientation fees are not the same.</p>
<p>It’d be nice if SDSU and all the other large universities could provide the individual attention to respond to issues like this but it really is ultimately up to the student to do their homework, understand the requirements, and either meet those requirements or if there was an issue with that, contact the admissions office and find out what the best plan B is given the failure to meet the easy to determine requirements.</p>