Due to the budget cuts made by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California State University has bumped its fall 2008 freshmen application deadline to Feb.1.

The SF State deadline was Jan. 15. "The deadline for SF State's [fall 2008 freshmen application] was the same time as last year so our date was not really affected," said Jo Volkert, assistant vice president for enrollment management at SF State.

Students planning to transfer to SF State will have an earlier application deadline. Applications were due on March 28, but SF State has bumped the deadline to March 3.

Volkert's suggestion to incoming freshmen who have missed the SF State deadline is to apply to other CSUs that have later deadlines, go to a community college or apply for spring 2009. Applications for spring 2009 will be due in August.

SF State received 28,680 freshmen applications for the fall of 2008 compared to last year's 24,690 freshmen applications, said Volkert.