CSU applications pour in at Vallejo's California Maritime Academy

CSU applications pour in
Students seeking nod for 2010 fall semester
By Sarah Rohrs
Posted: 10/24/2009 01:00:36 AM PDT

Student applications continue to pour into the California State University system for the 2010 fall semester.

The CSU chancellor's office reported 111,140 prospective students applied through the Web site, csumentor.edu, from Oct. 1 to 14.

In the same two-week period last year, 62,520 students submitted applications, the office said.

At Vallejo's California Maritime Academy, one of 23 campuses in the CSU system, the number of early applicants is about 35 percent higher than last year, director of admissions Marc McGee said.

"We have about 194 applications for fall 2010," McGee said. "On the same date last year, we had 144."

Freshmen applications are about 38 percent higher than last year, and transfer applications are about 29 percent higher, McGee said.

CMA will likely stop taking applications on Nov. 30 for some majors, including the school's most popular, marine transportation, McGee said.

Student applications for other Cal-Maritime majors will likely be accepted through May, he added.

"We don't know if we've just done a great job of encouraging students to apply early or if the trend will continue," McGee said.

Some students are racing to apply in an effort to get admitted before CSU closes enrollment altogether. The system is attempting to reduce enrollment statewide overall by 40,000 students in the next two years.

Community college students who want to transfer into four-year institutions represent the largest increase
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in student applications, the CSU chancellor's office said.

More than 48,000 two-year college students applied for upper-division transfer for fall 2010, a nearly three-fold increase from last year.

More than 62,000 applications have come from first-time freshmen, more than 50 percent above last year's number.

Contact staff writer Sarah Rohrs at srohrs@thnewsnet.com or (707) 553-6832.