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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 9, 1992
PeggyWoods/KANSAN
Great dav for a sale
University of Kansas Alumni Association employee Norma Purdy takes advantage of warm temperatures and bargains during the Kansas Union Bookstore sidewalk sale. The bookstore sold some of its merchandise at reduced prices Tuesday and yesterday to make room for inventory arriving in June.
Tough entrance standards make life hard on students
Kansan staff writer
When Nikki Julian paid her tuition, she never realized she would be denied the education she expected to get at KU.
She wanted to work with children and eventually get into education administration. To do that, she needed to get a bachelor of science degree in education.
By Janet Rorholm
But after two years of college, Julian, Lenexa junior, does not meet the requirements for acceptance into the School of Education.
One of Julian's test scores was one point lower than the requirement, and she was denied enrollment into the school. She submitted her application and is waiting for the committee to make its decision.
"It's very frustrating and confusing," she said. "It's distracting to me because I don't know what I'm going to do with my life now."
Julian is one of many students who found it more difficult to get into a professional school than they had planned. Some students have been forced to change their majors to earn degrees.
The professional schools of education, journalism, social welfare, engineering, fine arts and
business have learned within the past three years that they could not handle the number of undergraduate students wishing to enroll in all or some of the departments because of a lack of resources.
The lack of money for more teachers and space to accommodate students has forced the schools to limit enrollment either as a whole or in certain departments.
Some schools have coupled that with tough admissions requirements or competitive admissions if too many students meet the requirements.
The School of Education had to change its admissions requirements to control the number of students going into the curriculum and instruction department, said Edward Meyen, dean of education.
Meyen said the requirement to get into the school was a 2.5 grade point average, but limiting enrollees tended to push the required GPA.
The School of Social Welfare has experienced similar changes. With space for only 180 students in the bachelor program, competition for admission is stiff, said Ra Willits, administrative assistant
for the school.
A 2.0 GPA is the written requirement for the school, but to be in the running for the review committee, a 3.0 GPA is needed, Willis said.
"I tell students not to put all their eggs in one basket," she said. "You need to cover yourself and look at different opportunities."
She said she had used the phrase "GPA building" more and more.
But the problem is that most students do not have the time or the money to make up for a bad semester. Willits said.
"There is a strange mathematical fact that the more hours you have, the slower the GPA builds," another for one bad semester.
John Wake, Leavenworth junior, said a couple of bad semesters made getting into the School of Business too tough.
When Wake computed the number of hours and what grades he would need to increase his GPA, he would need 32 hours of average.
"I decided to lower my expectations of what I wanted to do," he said.
Wake decided to major in English. He also is considering law school.
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