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Impaction

At California State University, Northridge (快活林性息), impaction affects only domestic undergraduate students聽(first-time freshmen and first-time transfer students) who attend high schools and/or colleges in the state of California.

What are 快活林性息's Impaction Requirements?

Impaction Overview at 快活林性息

For 2025-2026 Admissions:听

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

For 2024-2025 Admissions:

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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鈥檚 local admissions area, and/or
  • Set supplementary admission criteria for specific impacted majors (academic programs).

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At 快活林性息, 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 Local/nonlocal-area impaction is no longer in effect.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聽impacted majors. Local/nonlocal-area impaction is no longer in effect.

You are聽NOT聽affected by 快活林性息聽impaction if:

  • You are a聽graduate聽applicant. Visit .
  • You are a聽nonresident聽of California.
    • are already required to meet a higher聽聽than freshman applicants in California, even without impaction. That has not changed.
    • International applicants, please visit .
  • You are a聽U.S. servicemember聽(active duty or veteran)聽applying to 快活林性息.聽Visit聽.

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:

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 快活林性息's impacted majors. If so, you must meet the higher, supplementary criteria required for the impacted major you have chosen.

*Note:听聽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 快活林性息-defined local admissions geographical area were required to meet a higher admissions standard than applicants attending schools within 快活林性息's local admissions area. 快活林性息 has discontinued this kind of "local/nonlocal-area impaction."聽

Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Admission

Local/nonlocal-area (regional) impaction聽is no longer in effect for admission consideration to the fall 2024 and spring 2025 semesters at 快活林性息.

Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Admission

Local/nonlocal-area (regional) impaction聽is no longer in effect for admission consideration to the fall 2025 and spring 2026 semesters at 快活林性息.

快活林性息's supplementary admissions criteria for impacted majors are published well into the admission cycle for each semester of entry.

For details about 快活林性息鈥檚聽supplementary聽admission criteria for聽impacted majors, visit:

  • 聽- Admission is based on the applicant's eligibility index.
  • 聽- Admission is based on the applicant's GPA.

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

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

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