Checking Your Cal State Apply Application Status
Notifications
As you progress through the application process, you'll receive important notifications and critical alerts. Applicants are responsible for monitoring these notifications and following up on any required actions. To view your notifications, click View My Notifications on the left side of the application dashboard.
Application Statuses
Applicants are responsible for monitoring the status of an application, including any required documentation. Campuses will correspond with you directly via email regarding any required documents.
To help you keep track of your application and all materials, click Check Status at the top of the application dashboard. You can find information about:
- Your overall application status
- Official test scores receipt
- Programs status
- Recommendations status
- ADT verification status
Check Status page, application statuses
Check Status page, recommendations and official test scores
Check Status page, ADT verification status
Keep in mind that it takes five business days from the date of receipt to post official test scores to your application. Recommendations are immediately updated once received from your recommender.
Your application status may be:
In Progress
Your application has not yet been submitted or you haven’t paid the application fee.
Received
Your application has been submitted.
Complete
Your application payment has been successfully submitted and your application is available to your programs. This is your application’s final status.
Recommendation Statuses
If you submit recommendation requests, your recommendation's status may be:
Requested
This status indicates that the request was sent to the recommender, but they have not accepted or declined it. They must accept your request before they can submit their recommendation.
Accepted
This status indicates that the recommender accepted your request but has not yet submitted their recommendation.
Completed
This status indicates that the recommender completed and submitted their recommendation and it was sent to your program(s).
Declined
This status indicates that the recommender declined your recommendation request. You can click Update Recommenders to add a new recommendation request.
Expired
This status only appears once the cycle closes. Recommendations can no longer be submitted. Review Cal State Apply Cycle Dates to learn the final dates when you can request recommendations and your recommenders can complete recommendation requests.
Test Score Status
If you submit official test scores to Cal State Apply, your official test score's status is listed as Accepted with the date Cal State Apply received it.