<p>Yup, one of the things that’s true here is that as terrible as this is for the OP and her son, the CSU application website and everything you get every step of the process tells you over and over that your admission is only conditional until your last transcripts are accepted and that there are no exceptions. I was notified my transfer admission was rescinded two weeks before I started at a CSU, because my final transcript had just been recieved and I had taken one of courses required for admission in Fall, not Summer. (And the Rules say that all required courses for transfer must be taken two semesters before transfer, etc.) Luckily for me, I had applied for admission by Adult Exception and could prove that, so the rule didn’t apply to me – but it was a close one.</p>
<p>The process is awful and terrible and punitive and sometimes obstructionist, but they do put considerable effort into making sure you <em>know</em> the rules.</p>