Local Preference Admission Consideration

determines which first-time, first-year and transfer applicants will receive “local preference” for admission consideration based on their high school of graduation. The same geographic boundaries that have been historically used to determine local area high schools for freshmen remain in place and also apply to incoming transfers.

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Community Colleges and Local Preference
Beginning Fall 2025, local area preference for transfer students will include applicants from select community colleges, provided they completed the majority of their units and their last school attended was one of these institutions.

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also grants local preference to:

  • All military veterans, regardless of their school of origin
  • All students from alternative high schools if the primary residence where they are educated is located within the current boundaries of ’s local area
     

Explore local area preference categories below:
 

Applicants who are considered local based on their high school of graduation or military status who meet the minimum eligibility requirements but are not admissible to the major will be offered admission as an undeclared student. Undeclared students will explore other appropriate majors through coursework and advising and must meet the major-specific criteria for the major prior to declaring a major by their junior year. Applicants should note that undeclared is not a route to their initial intended major. Undeclared students work with university advisors to identify and succeed in alternate majors.

Transfer applicants to are considered local based on the high school from which they graduated, rather than the college they are transferring from. Or, if a student transfers with the majority of their units from one of the five local admission area community colleges and it is their last school of attendance, they are also considered local.

Additionally, extends local preference to military veterans. For CSU-eligible applicants who are considered local, admission is guaranteed if they meet the major-specific minimum cumulative GPA and required lower-division preparation, except for highly impacted majors where this local preference does not apply.

Local Area Admission Chart: High Schools and Districts
Abbreviation   District Map School Name  
ABCUSDABC Unified School District 1Artesia
ABCUSDABC Unified School District 2Cerritos
ABCUSDABC Unified School District3Gahr
ABCUSDABC Unified School District4Whitney
AUHSDAnaheim Union School District (Portion of)5Cypress
AUHSDAnaheim Union School District (Portion of)6 Oxford Academy 
BUSDBellflower Unified School District 7Bellflower
BUSDBellflower Unified School District8Mayfair
CUSDCompton Unified School District9Centennial
CUSDCompton Unified School District10Compton
CUSDCompton Unified School District11Dominguez
DUSDDowney Unified School District12Downey
DUSDDowney Unified School District13Warren
HBUSDHuntington Beach School District14Edison
HBUSDHuntington Beach School District15Fountain Valley
HBUSDHuntington Beach School District16Huntington Beach
HBUSDHuntington Beach School District17Marina
HBUSDHuntington Beach School District18Ocean View
HBUSDHuntington Beach School District19Westminster
HBUSDHuntington Beach School District52Triton Coast 
HBUSDHuntington Beach School District53Huntington Beach Adult School
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District 20Avalon
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District50Browning 
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District21Cabrillo
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District22CAMS
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District 43EPHS
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District23Jordan
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District24Lakewood
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District25Millikan
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District26McBride
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District27Polytechnic
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District44Reid
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District28Renaissance
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District29Sato Academy
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District30Wilson
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District31Beach High
LBUSDLong Beach Unified School District55Long Beach School for Adults
LOSALUSDLos Alamitos Unified School District 32Los Alamitos
PUSDParamount Unified School District33Paramount
PUSDParamount Unified School District54Odyssey STEM Academy
PRIVATENA34Brethren Christian
PRIVATENA35Calvary Chapel
PRIVATELong Beach Campus36Opportunities for Learning
PRIVATENA37Parkridge
PRIVATENA38Pius X/St. Matthias
PRIVATENA39St. Anthony
PRIVATENA40St. Joseph
PRIVATENA41St. John Bosco
PRIVATENA42Valley Christian
NLMUSDNorwalk La Mirada Unified School District45El Camino
NLMUSDNorwalk La Mirada Unified School District46John Glenn
NLMUSDNorwalk La Mirada Unified School District47La Mirada
NLMUSDNorwalk La Mirada Unified School District48Norwalk
NLMUSDNorwalk La Mirada Unified School District49Southeast Academy

 

 

 

Local area preference for transfer students will include applicantsfrom the community colleges listed below, provided they completed the majority of their units and their last school attended was one of these institutions.

Local Area Admission Chart: Community Colleges
Map School Name  
ALong Beach City College (LBCC)
BCerritos College
CGolden West College
DCoastline Community College
EOrange Coast College (OCC)