Fall Freshmen Admission Requirements

• Freshmen Requirements
• Freshman Supplemental Factors

Freshman Requirments

A first-time freshman is a student who has earned no college credit after the summer immediately following high school graduation. You are eligible for admission as a first-time freshman if you:

• Have or will have graduated from high school or equivalent; AND
• Meet at least a 2.5 GPA or greater for CA residents and graduates of a CA High School/ 3.0 or greater for non-CA residents and graduates of a non-CA High School; AND
• Have or will have completed 15 year-long college preparatory courses (see below chart) with a grade of “C-” or better upon graduation from high school (see first bullet point).

  • The CSU will consider course grades of “credit” or “pass” as fulfilling “a-g” requirements for those courses completed during Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall 2020 terms and during Winter, Spring or Summer 2021 terms. All other coursework must be graded and a grade of C- or better must be earned for the course to satisfy “a-g” requirements. Grades of credit/pass or no credit/no pass will not be included in the calculation of high school GPA. 

Freshmen with Supplemental Factors: 

For California high school graduates or residents of California earning a GPA between 2.00 and 2.49 or Non-CA high school graduates or non-residents of California earning a GPA between 2.47and 2.99, students will be evaluated based upon the below supplemental factors.

• • Supplemental Factor: Academic Achievement
    • CSU Admissions Requirement "A-G" (10th- 12th grade) GPA
    • CSU Admissions Requirement: "A-G" Coursework beyond the minimum 30 semesters
  • Supplemental Factor: Community Commitment
    • Graduating from a local admission area school (CSUCI is not an impacted campus so any CA high school will be considered local area.)
  • Supplemental Factor: Other Applicant Attributes
    • First Generation College Student (either parent/guardian has not obtained a bachelor’s degree)
    • Educational Programs Participation (e.g. AVID, Upward, Bound, Talent Search or Education Opportunity Center, Puente Project, MESA, etc.)

Please note: The California State University (CSU) no longer uses ACT or SAT examinations in determining admission eligibility for all CSU campuses. If accepted to a CSU campus, ACT or SAT test scores can be used as one of the measures to place students in the proper mathematics and written communication courses.