CSU Puts Kibosh on Transfers to Long Beach State

California State University, the state's largest college system, is putting the brakes on mid-year transfer students to 13 campuses such as Long Beach State, it was reported.

Only 10 of the 23 Cal State schools, including Cal State Fullerton, will accept any mid-year transfers in 2013; even the remaining schools will, for the first time, require that incoming juniors have an Associate Degree in hand -- not just community college transfer credits, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reported.

And the cuts will get even worse if Proposition 30 fails in November, triggering another $250 million cut on top of the $750 million haircut that the Cal State system has already sustained, school officials said.

Schools like Long Beach State, Cal State Northridge, and San Diego State will not accept incoming community college transfer students of any type this spring, the newspaper reported.

``What we tell students is, after we pick them up and give them a (tissue), is what the other options are or what else you can do,'' said one college transfer counselor, Jenny Dannelly, in an interview with the Inland Daily Bulletin

The enrollment limit puts an end to the traditional route used by hundreds of thousands of Californians who were unable for financial or academic reasons to enroll as freshmen in the 427,000-student university system. Those students were told good grades at a community college could earn them a transfer to a Cal State University for completion of a four-year degree.

``They're really surprised because they finished their course work and they're looking to apply, which is now,'' the Chaffey College counselor told the Inland Valley Bulletin. ``And they're walking in and we're telling them, sorry, unless you happen to meet this criterion.'' Schools that will accept midyear transfer students with Associate Degrees are the universities at Channel Islands, Chico, Fullerton, East Bay, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco and Sonoma.

-City News Service

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