In-state high school students who qualify to attend California state universities can skip the application process and will be automatically admitted to the schools under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 6.
Senate Bill 640, by Sen. Christopher Cabaldon (D-Yolo), aims to increase admissions at the state’s 23 campuses in the California State University system, which is the largest four-year public university system in the United States.
“We should make it as seamless for our students to go from 12th grade to the next stage of their education as it was for them to go [from] sixth grade to seventh grade,” Cabaldon said in a statement on Sept. 10, when the bill passed the Legislature. “Direct admission removes the applications hurdle that stops some students from going to college, and relieves the fear that they won’t get in anywhere.”…