Admissions

Understanding First-Time Freshman Admission Areas

Chico State will no longer require SAT or ACT for admission decisions and will instead use multi-factor admission criteria. The criteria include: Ă GPA Ă Local admission service area Ă A-G courses beyond the Chico

State minimum Ă Veteran status Ă Verified foster youth, unaccompanied homeless youth or ward of the court Ă Extracurricular activities Applicants are "rank ordered" by GPA and additional multi-factored criteria. Admission offers will be made in descending order until the freshman class is full. We will not know the final GPA cut off until we are able to review the entire applicant pool. Applicants from the local admission areas will receive additional points toward their consideration. Local admission area: Students who graduate from a high school in one of the following counties or school districts are from Chico State's local admission area: Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Yuba and four school districts in Trinity (Mountain Valley, Southern Trinity, Trinity Alps and Trinity High School).

The Butte County Promise

(butte.edu/buttecountypromise) demonstrates our commitment to local area students to remove barriers and provide opportunities to become both civically engaged and to earn a degree.

Outside of our local admission

area: Students who graduate high school from a county or school district in California that are not identified above are considered outside of our local admission area.

California residents with a GPA of 2.00 to 2.499

In addition to successfully meeting A–G requirements, these applicants will be considered on a case-by-case basis using multi-factor criteria.

Non-California residents with a GPA of 3.00 or above

Eligible for admission provided their A–G requirements are successfully met. Early Start Program (ESP)

Beginning with the fall 2018 semester, Chico State changed how it determines placement for general education English and math courses and who will be exempt from the Early Start remediation program for incoming freshmen. We now use multiple measures of academic proficiency that include high school English and mathematics/quantitative reasoning course grades, high school grade point averages, grades in collegiate courses, Advanced Placement scores, International Baccalaureate scores, and Smarter Balanced Assessment/Early Assessment Program scores.

Understanding Upper Division Transfer and Admission Areas

Local admission area: Students who earn 30 or more transferable units from one or more of the following community colleges are from Chico State’s local admission area: Butte College, College of the Siskiyous, Feather River College, Lassen College, Shasta College, Sierra College (coursework completed through Tahoe-Truckee campus and Nevada County Campus only), and Yuba College.

Connect With Us

A great way to learn more about Chico State is to spend time with our staff and students. We offer guided campus tours Monday through Saturday. We also host a prospective student open house in the fall. Please visit www.csuchico.edu/admissions and click on the “Visit” link for details.

Office of Admissions

Ȱ California State University, Chico 400 West First Street

Chico, CA 95929-0722 Л (530) 898-6322 ƍ info@csuchico.edu î www.csuchico.edu/admissions

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