SDSU REJECTED TRANSFERS-- Who is appealing?

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SDSU rejections due to computer glitch?
By Leonel Sanchez (Contact) Union-Tribune Staff Writer

2:00 a.m. March 12, 2009

COLLEGE AREA — A computer glitch might have caused San Diego State University to erroneously reject as many as 110 community college students who met transfer requirements, officials said.

The university will review the fall 2009 applications and accept anyone mistakenly turned away, said Ethan Singer, SDSU’s associate vice president for academic affairs.

“If we make an error, and it’s our fault, we’ll correct it,” Singer said.

Counselors at community colleges in San Diego and Imperial counties raised the issue this week after students who had met the necessary academic requirements to transfer to the university received rejection letters.

“All of a sudden we had a slew of students in panic in our offices,” Grossmont College counselor Scott Barr said.

Singer said the affected students filled out an online “supplemental admission application.”

“It appears there may have been a bug in either the format or the software of the application,” he said.

Students were erroneously told that they had failed to take all the required general-education classes to transfer, counselors said.

Singer said SDSU will send letters to about 110 students asking them to submit transcripts again. “If they are eligible, we’ll admit them,” he said.

Southwestern College student Adrienne Wood, 27, said she cried when she received a rejection letter this week. She was relieved to hear that her application would be reviewed again.

“I met all the eligibility criteria,” Wood said. “I kept my end of the bargain.”