Notes on current application processing
Please encourage Scott Hagg to update this document. All application processing moved from Banner
to Campus Solutions in Fall 2009 and there are many
changes and reasons that numbers to not appear to be comparable across the
years.
26-November-2007 Increase in freshmen applications is due to several factors - travel, bus trips, and early correspondence with prospects. The Admissions Office has invested financial resources and staff to attend almost every college fair in CA and has expanded our travel to several WUE states. Outreach staff members have also presented in many of the high schools in CA. For the past several years, the Admissions Office has partially subsidized bus trips for high school coming from great distances. This action has resulted not only in enrollment from those schools, but increase exposure for future students. Finally, for the first time in a number of years the Admissions Office sent three early communications to prospective students prior to the open application period for Fall 08. This action increased the awareness of HSU and maintained our momentum going into the open application period.
Our admits are only slightly ahead of the previous year. This is due to our decision to stick with the CSU admission requirements. The last two years we modified the requirements (with the approval of the Chancellor's Office) to admit a greater number of students. Our increase applicant pool is allowing us to significantly reduce our exception admits and improve the academic quality of our incoming class.
29-May-2007 Freshmen applications were closed this month earlier than the anticipated June 1 deadline. Our projected enrollment based off confirmations indicated a higher yield compared to last year. One cautionary note on freshmen confirmations - we started the process of collecting confirms this year by sending out the email one month earlier compared to last year. But we are not concerned this will have an impact on the size of the freshmen class. The Admissions Office also continued with the practice of our new admit policy. This is to account for our increase in admits and, most likely, confirms.
Transfer applications will be accepted until August 1. We are encouraged with the increase in admits and confirms in this category. While most campuses in the CSU are either flat or down in transfers, we are ahead by 100.
A final analysis as to the increase in applications will not be completed until the end of the summer, but current indications are WUE states, San Diego, and Los Angeles are the biggest contributors to our application gain this year. As far as application processing this year, our freshmen application coordinator was able to meet her self imposed deadline of entering all apps in Banner by the end of January. Overall, the outreach and inreach functions worked very well this year.
1-March-2006 Late February communications from the Chancellor's Office have encouraged all CSU campuses to do almost anything to meet enrollment targets, including using more exception admits and allowing more students to be admitted who are not CSU-eligible. HSU rules, agreed to by Executive Committee and sent out to staff March 1: UD transfers: require 2.0 college gpa and 30 units GE with 2.0 [no math or English requirement]. FTF: Admit non residents with 2900 and missing up to one year of subjects. If CA resident/grad, aadmit with EI of 2800 and missing up to one year of subjects. Or if all subjects successfully completed, allow CA res with EI of 2700. Can take one year of any VPA courses. LD transfers: meet FTF requirements listed above. We ran lists of previously denied/review applicants, to apply the new rules to them. Note: anyone not meeting full CSU requirements is admitted with special/exception Basis of Admission.
28-Feb-2006 We are finally caught up with application processing. This feat took hundreds of hours of overtime; last year the hundreds of hours of overtime came from Application Communication Unit processors; this year, the overtime came from Admissions Counselors. The Admissions Counselors processed most of the first-time freshman applications received December and forward in the S - Z alphabet. The lag in total processing would have affected the number/date of admitted FTF. Transfer evaluators began evaluating in January; began in more earnest in February.
8-Dec-2005 We are considerably behind in the complete proessing. Our main FTF processor in Admissions is currently working on November 18 applications. Last year at this time, she was approximately 1- 1 1/2 week further along. This affects the number of admits greatly.
29-OCT-02. October 2001 (for the fall 2002 term) was the first time the initial filing period began October 1, rather than November 1
01-Jul-02. Telecounseling efforts during the Spring of 2001 and 2000 allowed us to discover that many admitted students were not planning to attend. Reduced telecounseling in 2002 makes it appear that there are more active applications to-date, but this is undoubtedly an anomaly caused by the extra data collection.
11-Jun-02.
We are currently accepting applications for Fall semester 2002. At the moment, we are essentially current—all
applications we receive are entered into the computer system within 1-2 days
and will be included in the application reports.
Beginning with the Fall 2001 semester, we began accepting fall applications over the Web during the month of October. In theory, students were not allowed to apply before November in previous years. This change means that to-date comparisons during October and November are probably not very meaningful.
In the Spring of 1999, we began allowing applicants to “transfer” their application to the subsequent term without reapplying. Since only one application is submitted (and one application fee paid or waived), this application is only counted once. Previously, the applicant would have had to submit two applications and would have been counted twice. As many as 350 applications can end up changing terms in this manner. Update December 5, 2005: We scaled back this practice about 3 years ago; now apps are "deferred" much more rarely.