CAL POLY - Plans to stop accepting more students into the California State University system will have no impact on Cal Poly's enrollment because of its high demand, school officials say.

Up to 30,000 applicants could be turned away from the 22 other CSU campuses in the spring of 2004, according to a plan CSU officials announced Wednesday.

Additional state budget cuts announced this week are slashing plans to increase the current enrollment of approximately 400,000 students systemwide to 4.3 percent growth in the 2003-04 school year, down from an expected 7 percent.

"The 2003-04 budget will cause this year's enrollment targets to be reduced essentially ... in half," said CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed, in a statement issued Wednesday.

The system will accept no enrollment growth in the following year.

Since Cal Poly hasn't enrolled new students in its spring quarter for about a decade, it is unaffected, said admissions director Jim Maraviglia. The university typically accepts a couple hundred new students in the summer and winter quarters, he said, and the rest begin in the fall.

CSU spokeswoman Clara Potes-Fellow said the enrollment curbs will have a big impact on larger schools like San Diego State University, which accepts thousands of students each year from the surrounding area. It has has 34,000 students, roughly twice Cal Poly's total.

University officials say the state budget crisis, which has resulted in cuts of $345 million in the CSU system, will similarly have no impact on construction plans for new dormitories and classrooms.

"Capital projects are funded through bonds and will continue to move forward," said Larry Kelley, Cal Poly's vice president for administration and finance.