Cleveland State University has found, through trial and error, how to attract first-year students fresh from high school.

And what officials have learned is paying off.

Since the university ended open enrollment in 2008 and established minimum admission requirements — 2.3 high school GPA and an ACT score of 17 — it has seen the number of new first-year students increase more than 32 percent, to 1,300 last fall.

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