The second proposal is to raise the required GPA to a 3.3. To the best of my knowledge (and I'd say it's pretty good) this would only apply to incoming students who are admitted this year--aka NOT to any current students. There's been much discussion about the fairness of this, and I agree that it isn't ideal and I wish there was a silver bullet to fix things. Historically we've had higher GPA requirements and we've had numerical caps for literally decades before removing all departmental constraints in 2007 (we had ~130 majors at the time). Keep the following in mind: The largest we've ever been in history was 282. We waited until we eclipsed 400 before even proposing a GPA requirement and though it was just after the 2012 class was admitted, we tried to message it broadly for 18 months so students could avoid the GPA requirement and declare a semester earlier--by using summer session or taking an extra course etc.. This worked for almost all of the students though some were not able to or didn't know. The faculty & ugrad study committee deliberately chose as low of a GPA as possible in an effort to be more inclusive than in historical enrollment surges. We currently have 904 majors. Yes we're more than triple the largest we've ever been in history, and we managed to grow by this much in just over 2 years--it's pretty incredible. Applied math, Econ, and Stats are in similar positions though Stats has attenuated this with their 3.2 GPA requirement. Econ requires a 3.0 & Stats a 3.2; Also, Psych, PE, Art Practice, Media Studies, and more have GPA or other constraints.

tl;dr changes are only for incoming freshman