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For 2025-2026 Admissions:Ìý

• Only three majors are impacted. All undergraduate applicants from California will need to achieve both the standard CSU criteria and the supplementary admission criteria that ¼ªÏé·» has established for each impacted major.
• There is no local/nonlocal-area impaction. All California applicants will need to meet the same standard CSU admissions criteria.

For 2024-2025 Admissions:

• Only four majors are impacted. All undergraduate applicants from California will need to achieve both the standard CSU admission criteria and the supplementary criteria that ¼ªÏé·» has established for each impacted major.
• Local/nonlocal-area impaction has been removed for both first-time freshmen and first-time transfer students. All California applicants will need to meet the same minimum standard CSU criteria.

Impaction means a California State University (CSU) campus anticipates more qualified applicants than available spots for which there is adequate state funding. Impaction can:

• Affect all undergraduate admissions for a CSU (campus impaction),
• Give preference admission consideration to freshman or transfer applicants from schools within a CSU’s local admissions area, and/or
• Set supplementary admission criteria for specific impacted majors (academic programs).

Learn more at .

At ¼ªÏé·», impaction affects first-time freshmen and first-time transfer applicants who attend high schools and/or colleges in the state of California.

Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Admissions

Domestic first-time freshmen and first-time transfer students from California will be affected by impaction only if they are applying to one of the four impacted majors. Local/nonlocal-area impaction is no longer in effect.

Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Admissions

Domestic first-time freshmen and first-time transfer students from California will be affected by impaction only if they are applying to one of the three impacted majors. Local/nonlocal-area impaction is no longer in effect.

You are NOT affected by ¼ªÏ鷻 impaction if:

• You are a graduate applicant. Visit Graduate Admissions.
• You are a nonresident of California.
  • Out-of-state freshman applicant are already required to meet a higher  than freshman applicants in California, even without impaction. That has not changed.
  • International applicants, please visit International Admissions.
• You are a U.S. servicemember (active duty or veteran) applying to ¼ªÏé·». Visit Veterans Admissions.

For fall 2024 and spring 2025 admission, the four following majors are impacted:

• B.S. in Accountancy
• B.S. in Business Administration, options in:
  • Financial Analysis
  • Financial Planning
  • Risk Management and Insurance
• B.A. in Cinema and Television Arts
• B.A. in Music

For fall 2025 and spring 2026 admission, the three following majors are impacted:

• B.S. in Accountancy
  • Information Systems option
  • Professional Accountancy option
• B.A. in Cinema and Television Arts
  • Film Production option
  • Television Production option
• B.A. in Music

Read more about the supplementary admission criteria for these impacted majors at:

• Freshman Impaction
• Transfer Impaction

No, not anymore. Local/nonlocal-area impaction is no longer in effect.*

For the current and coming academic years, you are affected by impaction only if:

• You are a first-time, domestic undergraduate applicant who has attended one or more high schools and/or colleges in California, and
• You are applying to one of ¼ªÏé·»'s impacted majors. If so, you must meet the higher, supplementary criteria required for the impacted major you have chosen.

*Note:Ìý In the recent past, first-time freshman or first-time transfer applicants from California who attended California high schools and/or colleges outside of the ¼ªÏé·»-defined local admissions geographical area were required to meet a higher admissions standard than applicants attending schools within ¼ªÏé·»'s local admissions area. ¼ªÏé·» has discontinued this kind of "local/nonlocal-area impaction." 

Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Admission

Local/nonlocal-area (regional) impaction is no longer in effect for admission consideration to the fall 2024 and spring 2025 semesters at ¼ªÏé·».

Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Admission

Local/nonlocal-area (regional) impaction is no longer in effect for admission consideration to the fall 2025 and spring 2026 semesters at ¼ªÏé·».

¼ªÏé·»'s supplementary admissions criteria for impacted majors are published well into the admission cycle for each semester of entry.

For details about ¼ªÏ鷻’s supplementary admission criteria for impacted majors, visit:

• Freshman Impaction - Admission is based on the applicant's eligibility index.
• Transfer Impaction - Admission is based on the applicant's GPA.

For the minimum standard CSU admission requirements for all domestic undergraduate applicants, visit:

• First-Time Freshman Admissions
• Upper-Division Transfer Admissions

Please note that all applicants, whether affected by impaction or not, must apply for admission during the application filing period.