Take California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. In the last 10 years, it has seen the number of applications go up from 31,489 to 54,070, a 53 percent increase. Enrollment is up, but the spots in the first-year class are only up 24 percent during that period. Here’s one way to measure that increase in competitiveness. Last year, for the first time, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo rejected 10,000 applicants with 4.0 grade point averages in high school. That was, by far, the largest number of such applicants to be rejected by the university. In this year’s admissions cycle, the number topped 13,000… Some of the crunch at Cal Poly is due to the state not keeping campuses growing at the same level as the state’s population.

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by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed.

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