Transcript Entry/College Coursework
Requirements
Additional Documents
- If you are a freshman applicant for the 2021-2022 cycle, review the Cal State Apply Freshman Application Guide for detailed instructions.
- If you are a transfer applicant for the 2021-2022 cycle, review the Cal State Apply Transfer Application Guide for detailed instructions.
- If you are a transfer student for the 2020-2021 cycle, review the Cal State Apply Transfer Student Application Guide and the Cal State Apply Transfer Credit Entry Guide for detailed instructions.
- If you completed dual enrollment courses, review the Dual Enrollment Coursework Guidance document.
Enter a Term
Enter a Course
Enter Courses for a Completed Term
- Click Add A Course under the appropriate term.
- Enter the course code. Department prefixes and course numbers must exactly match what appears on your official transcript. Some courses may populate from a drop-down that appears as you type the course. These are pre-loaded courses from ASSIST. If your course does not appear on the list, please complete the entry with the course subject and number as listed on your transcript.
- Enter the course title. You can abbreviate it if it does not fit in the text box.
- Select the course subject area. In most cases, it corresponds to the course subject code. This field does not default with a value. Make sure to select a subject for each course line. The system will not let you save the page without a subject identified for each course. If you are unable to find a similar subject, select the closest related subject if available. If there is no corresponding subject, select Special Topics.
- Enter the course credits exactly as they appear on your transcript. See the Course Credits section below for more details.
- Enter the grade exactly as it appears on your transcript, including any pluses or minuses. Refer to Cal State Apply Grade Values Chart for conversion charts, if necessary.
- If your grades are listed as "BA," "CB," or "DC," you must list them as "AB," "BC," and "CD" in order for the system to recognize them.
- If your grades are listed as numbers (e.g., 93), enter them exactly as they appear on your transcript. They will automatically convert to the equivalent CAS letter grade.
- The CAS Grade populates automatically. This allows us to standardize your coursework for all programs and cannot be edited.
- Click Save All.
- Continue adding courses, as needed.
Enter Courses for an In-Progress or Planned Term
Once you have added all your courses, select Yes under the Have you completed entering your transcript? question.
Enter Narrative Transcripts
Enter Repeated Courses and Academic Renewals
For admission purposes, the CSU honors the grading policies of the institution where credit was earned by accepting official transcript entries, including those reflecting academic renewal, repeat, and incomplete grades.
If you have repeated coursework, enter your coursework as described above and:
- If the original attempt is excluded from the transcript GPA and you have a grade for the repeated attempt, enter "RP" for the original attempt's grade.
- If the original attempt is excluded from the transcript GPA, but your repeated attempt is in progress, enter the original attempt's grade.
If your college offers academic renewal, enter your coursework as described above and enter "AR" for courses listed as academic renewal on the transcript.
Course Credits
Semester, Trimester, and Quarter Credits
There are two box values for credit. The first is the whole credit value. The second box is for fractional credit values and defaults to 00. To change this, select a value from the drop-down. For example, a course that is 3.5 credits would have a value of 3 in the first box and then .5 in the second.
If credits automatically populate from the Course Code drop-down, double-check the values match what is listed on your transcript.
Unit Credits
Lab Credits
Test Credits
You can only list test credits if they were awarded by one of the schools you attended and they appear on your transcript. Test credit types include Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), CLEP, DANTE, Regents, and courses you "tested out of" at college or university. List these credits under your first term at the school that awarded you the credit and enter "CR" as the grade. If no course prefix or number appears on the transcript, enter "N/A" for Not Applicable.
Transferable
For each course you must identify if the course is transferable by checking the box at the end of the course entry row. The course numbering system on the back of the transcript or in the course catalog often indicates college level- or bachelor degree-applicable courses. California Community College students can use ASSIST.org to view CSU transferability. College preparative, remedial, or vocational coursework are not transferable. If you are uncertain, check with a transfer counselor at your college. Courses entered with data populating from ASSIST will have the box checked automatically. It is important to make sure you have all courses correctly classified since transferable courses are used to calculate admission GPA.
Transfer GPA
Calculating Your GPAs
Cal State Apply uses the information you entered in the Transcript Entry section to calculate several GPAs, including GPAs for each institution you attended. To calculate these GPAs, each A-F or 0-100 grade you entered in the Grade field is first converted to a Cal State Apply numeric grade value, then multiplied by the attempted credits. The resulting product is Quality Points.
Your total Quality Points are then divided by your Attempted Credits to determine your GPA.
Non-graded credits are not included in your GPAs. Non-graded credits are earned credits for which you did not receive actual letter grades (e.g., advanced placement credits, "pass" or "satisfactory" credits, college board AP exams, courses taken as pass/fail, etc.). Note: a grade of WF (i.e., equivalent of a withdrawn with penalty, withdrawn failing, etc.) is factored into GPA calculations as an F.
Cal State Apply calculates all GPAs in semester hours. Courses that were completed in quarter hours are converted to semester hours. The conversion ratio is 1.0 quarter hour = 0.667 semester hours.
Once you have entered your coursework, you can view your GPA in your full application PDF.
Your Transfer GPA will be available on Transcript Entry. Once you add new coursework, click Recalculate to refresh your GPA and confirm that it is correct before submitting your application.
Example:
Course |
Transcript Grade |
Converted Numeric Grade Value |
Attempted Credits |
Calculation |
Quality Points |
MATH 1100 |
A |
4 |
4 |
4 x 4 |
16 |
ENGL 1310 |
B |
3 |
3 |
3 x 3 |
9 |
GEOL 1610 |
C |
2 |
4 |
2 x 4 |
8 |
PHED 1000 |
D |
1 |
3 |
1 x 3 |
3 |
PSCI 1040 |
F |
0 |
3 |
0 x 3 |
0 |
Total |
|
|
17 |
|
36 |
GPA Calculation: 36 (Quality Points) / 17 (Attempted Credits) = 2.12 (GPA) |