• The Chancellor's Office assigns a College Year Full-time Equivalent Student (CY FTES) level for budget purposes. Cal Poly will receive enrollment growth funds from the State for the increase in budgeted CY FTES for 2000-01 as compared with the budgeted CY FTES for 1999-2000.
• The Council of Academic Deans sets new headcount targets for each college and UCTE. Analysis focuses on maintaining a balance of students among the colleges, especially at the undergraduate level. In order to encourage post-baccalaureate education, such programs may admit additional qualified students if they have sufficient instructional capacity.
• The Office of Admissions reviews the size and quality of applicant pools for each undergraduate discipline or program with the Associate Deans. The colleges then allocate new undergraduate enrollment among their departments, including targets for new freshmen as compared with transfer students.

• Increase in Summer enrollment. The CSU has mandated that campuses increase their year-round operations to accommodate enrollment growth associated with the increase in demand for higher education known as Tidal Wave II. Summer enrollment grew steadily from 1994 through 1998, but fell off during Summer 1999. For 2000 the campus needs to recover that loss and grow by 5 percent.
• Increase in Fall admissions. The campus has set a Fall admissions target of about 300 more students than for Fall 1999. In addition, colleges may admit additional upper division transfer students for Summer and Winter quarters to balance enrollment across terms.

• HC (Headcount): Total number of individual students enrolled for a particular quarter.
• FTES (Full-time equivalent students): Equal to the total student credit units taken by all students, divided by 15.
• Summer (annualized): One-third of the enrollment for Summer Quarter.
• AYFTES (Academic Year FTES): Average FTES for Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters.
• CYFTES (College Year FTES): Average FTES for Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters, plus Summer quarter (annualized).
• CYFTES - Budgeted: Enrollment level established by the CSU for operating budget support.
• Target: Established by the University as a goal for CY, AY and each quarter.
• Actual: Enrollment on Census Date (28th day) of quarter.
• Projected: Campus estimate of likely enrollment based on previous quarters. Projections are adjusted after Census Date for each subsequent quarter. (See the most recent projection.)
• Assumptions: Unless noted otherwise, assumptions for developing targets are based on the weighted average of the prior three similar quarters

• Over 90 percent of the new undergraduates are admitted through the competitive Early Decision and MCA processes. (Readers should remember that all undergraduate students must meet Cal Poly eligibility criteria, even if not admitted through the MCA.)
• Cal Poly expects that over 80 percent of the new undergraduates in Fall 2000 will enter as freshmen. This percentage has increased over the past decade for several reasons. The size and quality of the freshman applicant pool has increased more rapidly than the applicant pool for transfer students. In addition, the CSU requires that regular upper division transfer students to have completed four general education courses: in mathematics, English, speech, and critical thinking. This requirement differs from the University of California, and limits the transfer applicant pool for some colleges in particular (e.g., College of Engineering).

Overview / Timeline
Annual enrollment and budget planning timelines.