2008 Woodie Awards
Spring cleaning at SDSU leaves some in the dust
KRISTINA LONG
Issue date: 2/26/08 Section: Opinion
KRISTINA LONG
City Times
Take advanced placement classes, graduate with honors and continue your education at a university; that's what parents, teachers, and guidance counselors are constantly screaming at you throughout your entire education. At whom and what will they scream when they find out that the university that you are trying to apply to is no longer accepting applications? Most likely … you!
According to San Diego State University's admissions website, next spring they will not be accepting applications for any undergraduate students. For those of you who were planning on going there in the spring, you better start looking at other schools, and do it quickly.
Unfortunately, this new policy affects me as well. I went off to a four year university and did well, and when I decided to transfer from Arizona State to San Diego State as an undergraduate
student, I fell into the trap set by our flawed collegiate transfer system.
I understand that this university is a very popular campus, and situations similar to this are bound to happen. However, with that said, I also do not think that applications should be cut off completely. Students like me who are so close to graduating should be given the opportunity to apply.
The only issue here is not with SDSU, it is with our entire transfer system. Like many other students, when I tried to transfer from one state university to another I lost many classes that had to be retaken here at City College.
This was something that really got under my skin. I took the same standardized test that the students at SDSU took to get in and was accepted into a four-year university elsewhere, so shouldn't I be able to transfer from one state university to another?
The whole point of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the American College Test (ACT) is to have a test that is similar all over the country to test the knowledge of students. I took the same exact test at Jon Doe from Alabama, and got the same education at ASU as he did at SDSU, yet when I went to transfer I still was unable to.
City Times
Take advanced placement classes, graduate with honors and continue your education at a university; that's what parents, teachers, and guidance counselors are constantly screaming at you throughout your entire education. At whom and what will they scream when they find out that the university that you are trying to apply to is no longer accepting applications? Most likely … you!
According to San Diego State University's admissions website, next spring they will not be accepting applications for any undergraduate students. For those of you who were planning on going there in the spring, you better start looking at other schools, and do it quickly.
Unfortunately, this new policy affects me as well. I went off to a four year university and did well, and when I decided to transfer from Arizona State to San Diego State as an undergraduate
student, I fell into the trap set by our flawed collegiate transfer system.
I understand that this university is a very popular campus, and situations similar to this are bound to happen. However, with that said, I also do not think that applications should be cut off completely. Students like me who are so close to graduating should be given the opportunity to apply.
The only issue here is not with SDSU, it is with our entire transfer system. Like many other students, when I tried to transfer from one state university to another I lost many classes that had to be retaken here at City College.
This was something that really got under my skin. I took the same standardized test that the students at SDSU took to get in and was accepted into a four-year university elsewhere, so shouldn't I be able to transfer from one state university to another?
The whole point of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the American College Test (ACT) is to have a test that is similar all over the country to test the knowledge of students. I took the same exact test at Jon Doe from Alabama, and got the same education at ASU as he did at SDSU, yet when I went to transfer I still was unable to.
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