Los Angeles Harbor College (Harbor College) Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

LAHC requires applicants to attend a nursing program information session with at least 85% attendance before they're even eligible to submit a nursing application - proof of attendance must be included with your application packet. Skipping or partially attending this session disqualifies your application before it's reviewed, regardless of your academic record.

Half of eligible nursing applicants are selected for a TEAS voucher through a multi-criteria process, and the other half through a random lottery - and only students who test using the LAHC voucher are eligible for TEAS remediation if they don't pass on the first attempt. If you have any control over it, pursue the multi-criteria route by strengthening your prerequisite GPA, since it gives you more agency than relying on the lottery alone.

LAHC sits directly adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles, and its Global Trade and Logistics pathway covers warehousing, distribution, and international sales - a curriculum genuinely shaped by the harbor economy surrounding the campus, not a generic business program. This is a concrete local-industry advantage worth naming explicitly if you're building a logistics or supply chain career.

Harbor Advantage organizes your first two years into a "Harbor Promise" year and a "Harbor Success" year, each with dedicated counseling and workshops tied to your stage of progress. Combine this with the LA College Promise, which covers free tuition for eligible students in their first year, to front-load your academic planning around these structured cohort touchpoints rather than navigating the college independently.