California State University-East Bay (Cal State East Bay) Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

CSUEB's Pre-Licensure nursing program admits by term and campus simultaneously: Fall admission places students at the Hayward campus, while Spring admission places them at the Concord Center - a structural pairing most applicants don't realize until they're deep into the process. A student with a campus preference (commute distance, family logistics) should choose their application term specifically to land at their preferred location, since requesting "Concord" and "Fall" together isn't an option.

Nursing applicants must send official transcripts from every institution except CSUEB itself to NursingCAS, while CSUEB-specific transcripts and most non-transcript admission documents go separately to the CSUEB Admissions Office - and the program explicitly warns applicants not to send any documents directly to the Nursing Department itself. A student should map out this dual-submission system early and confirm receipt on both the MyCSUEB portal and the NursingCAS account, since a document arriving at only one location can leave the application incomplete without an obvious error message.

CSUEB's nursing admission policy differs by which term/campus pairing a student applies to: Fall/Hayward admission allows prerequisite courses to be in progress at the time of application (with final grades and transcripts due roughly a year later, by the application deadline), while Spring/Concord admission does not consider any in-progress prerequisites after the application deadline. A student close to finishing prerequisites should specifically target the Fall/Hayward cycle if timing is tight, since Spring/Concord offers no such flexibility.

CSUEB's general first-year and transfer admission requires no essay, no letters of recommendation, and doesn't consider SAT/ACT scores at all - even where submitted - a notably low-friction process by CSU standards. A family should redirect the time this saves toward verifying program-specific details (like the nursing campus/term pairing above, or specific major prerequisites) rather than spending it on essay polish the general application doesn't use.