The CSU: A Brief History
This is the year that the CSU Fullerton, Hayward & Stanislaus campuses were established.
What is 1657
This is the 4-letter document type abbreviation for a final High School transcript in OnBase.
What is HSTR?
If a student is under the age of 19 (with limited exceptions) on the Residency Determination Date, the student's residency status is derived from their this.
What is a parent or legal guardian?
This is the approved website used to validate high school courses to satisfy A-G requirements for both the CSU and UC systems.
What is UC Doorways?
These 4 baclorate level courses are required to be completed with a grade of C- or better for all upper division transfer students.
What is the Golden 4
This is the newest CSU campus location, established in 2002. It was founded on the site of an old mental hospital, not on islands as its name would suggest.
CSU Channel Islands
This is the type of International Baccalaureate test scores CSUF accepts for college credit. We do not accept the SL type.
What is HL or Higher Level?
Along with other requirements, Undocumented students who satisfy the attendance (3 or more years) and graduation (diploma) requirements at a California high school can qualify for a tuition exemption based on this assembly bill.
What is AB540?
This term refers to the process of a final grade of C- or better in the second semester of a yearlong course being recognized as satisfactory completion of subject performance requirements only in the subjects of mathematics, chemistry or languages other than English.
What is validation?
One baccalaureate-level course of at least three semester (four quarter) units is usually considered equivalent to this amount of high school study.
What is 1 year?
The California Maritime Academy was established in 1929 and became Cal Maritime in 1995. Starting with the Fall 2026 term, it will no longer be a standalone campus. Cal Maritime will be merging with this highly selective CSU campus starting Fall 2026.
What is Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
This standardized electronic academic transcript data contains a student's academic history and is used by California's K-12 schools to support college and career planning. It is collected and shared through the California College Guidance Initiative's platform
What are CCGI transcripts?
This process of residency review is for continuing CSUF students classified as Nonresident in a prior completed term.
What is reclassification?
This is the A-G category that includes an AP Language and Culture exam in Latin, with a score of 3 or higher, will satisfy.
What is Area E - Language Other than English (LOTE)
This degree type is commonly referred to as " A degree with a guarantee".
What is an Associate Degree for transfer or ADT?
This person is currently serving as the CSU's 11th Chancellor.
Who is Mildred Garcia?
This is the amount of time that CSUF retains all physical academic records. However, this is longer than the 12 months that are required.
What is 18 months?
This type of document can be submitted to help prove Legal Capacity to establish residency.
What are:
This special grading scale can only be accepted for high school courses completed in the winter 2020 to summer 2021 terms.
What are pass/no pass or credit/ no credit grades?
This is the minimum cumulative transfer GPA an Upper Division transfer student must have to be eligible for admission at the CSU?
What is 2.0?
This current CSU campus can trace its history back to 1857 and was the first institution of higher education established by the state of California.
What is San José State University.?
1857 -Weekly Normal School, a training school for elementary teachers, was established by the San Francisco Board of Education. It became the California State Normal School in 1862, the first institution of higher education established by the state. Under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Education, the institution was moved to San José in 1871 and today is San José State University.
This is the aproximate number of documnest processed by CSUF for the 2024-2025 academic term.
What is 117,354?
2022 - 75,289
2023 - 82,658
This is the appropriate person/department to file an Appeal to your residency determination if significant new information, not previously known or available to the student, becomes available.
What is the CSU Chanclor's Office at www.calstate.edu/residency?
Students with a combination of credits earned at both US high schools and foreign (non-US) high schools are expected to meet this requirement, similar to domestic students.
What is A-G?
From Fall 2025 and beyond, this is the CSU GE or Cal-GETC category that Critical Thinking will satisfy.
What is 1B?