With UGA and Tech full, other schools see enrollment increase

ATLANTA - The admissions standard at many state schools in Georgia used to be simple: Anyone with a high school diploma was accepted. <br> <br> But with the HOPE scholarship making state schools more attractive and with Georgia and Georgia Tech already crowded, other state schools are building more dorms, increasing freshmen class sizes and turning away even some good students. <br> <br> A record 2,440 freshmen enrolled at Georgia State University for classes that began Monday. That was enough to force the school to lease two floors of a downtown office building to accommodate the increase. In 1992, the freshman class was only 616 students. <br> <br> Kennesaw State University expects 19-hundred freshmen this fall -- 400 more than last year. Total enrollment is projected at 15,000 -- about 1,000 more than last year. <br> <br> And at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, nearly 15,000 students have enrolled. That&#39;s 500 more than last year. <br> <br> Bill Fritz, associate provost at Georgia State, says students that traditionally would have gone out of state are now choosing to stay here. <br> <br> With more students to choose from, Georgia and Georgia Tech can be more selective, causing the academic qualifications of incoming students to continue to rise. <br> <br> UGA spokesman Tom Jackson called it ``the law of supply and demand in the academic realm.&#39;&#39;