Admissions Requirements for First-time Freshmen

• English, 4 years
• Mathematics, 3 years: algebra, geometry and intermediate algebra (all students are encouraged to continue taking mathematics through the high school senior year)
• Social Science, 2 years including U.S. history or U.S. history and government
• Science, 2 years with a laboratory (one biological and one physical)
• Foreign Language, 2 years of the same language (subject to waiver for applicants demonstrating equivalent competence)
• Visual and Performing Arts, 1 year: art, dance, theatre/drama, or music
• Elective, 1 year selected from any of the above subject areas.

In addition, your qualification for admission is based on a combination of your grades and your scores on either the American College Test (ACT) or the Scholarship Aptitude Test (SAT).  Students in the top third of their high school class have excellent potential to succeed at our university.

Admission requirements may be subject to change.  See the CSU application for more information.

How to compute your Eligibility Index using:

1. SAT I Scores: (GPA)¹ x 800 + SAT I Total  = EI
2.  ACT Scores: (GPA)¹ x 200  + (10 x ACT Comp) = EI

¹10th - 12th College Preparatory Courses only

• up to eight semesters of honors courses taken in the last two years of high school will be granted additional points (an A in an honors course will receive a total of 5 points; B, 4 points; and C, 3 points)
• California residents must have a minimum index of 2900 using SAT I scores or 694 using ACT scores
• California nonresidents must have a minimum index of 3502 using SAT I scores or 842 using ACT scores

The California Residents Eligibility Index Table
The Nonresidents Eligibility Index Table

College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Examination Credit: 

Cal Poly Pomona grants credit toward its undergraduate degrees for successful completion of examinations of the Advanced Placement Program of the College Board.  Students who present scores of three or better will be granted up to six semester units (nine quarter units) of college credit². 

For specific information on Advanced Placement credit, contact the Office of Academic Programs, Building 98-T7-8, or the Degree Progress and Evaluation Services, Registrar's Office, Building 98, Room 2-20.

²Scores must be four or better for Biology, Computer Science, Economics and Physics.