How drastically does the local area criteria affect CSU admissions?

Gumbymom
Sun, 03 Jan 2016 07:21:44 +0000

Local applicants are not always guaranteed admission to their local CSU. Impaction plays a significant role in acceptances even for local applicants. My niece applied to her local CSU and was waitlisted due to an impacted major but was able gain acceptances at several other non-local CSU’s but with non-impacted majors. All CSU’s will rank all applicants based on their eligibility index and major. Impacted majors and impacted campuses will always have higher requirements beyond the minimum even for local in-service applicants.