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Admissions, enrollment and retention
Admission to CSUSB is based on a combination of the applicant's high school cumulative grade point average (GPA) and standardized test scores. These factors are used to determine the applicant's California State University (CSU) eligibility index. More specifically, the eligibility index is a weighted combination of high school grade point average during the final three years of high school and a score on either the SAT or ACT. The average grade point average for incoming freshmen is 3.07. The average composite ACT score was 20 and the average SAT score was 1020. Overall, 62% of applicants are accepted to CSUSB. Enrollment has increased by more than a third in recent years, and freshman enrollment has doubled. Due to the large number of applicants in the Fall 2010 quarter, CSUSB has declared "campus impaction" for the first time in its history. More than 70 percent of CSUSB students are the first generation of their families to attend college. Latino and African American student enrollments are the third highest of any university in California. CSUSB students are awarded on average 13 percent of CSU system scholarships, despite representing only 4 percent of the CSU's enrollment. Fifty-seven percent of full-time undergraduate students at CSUSB receive sufficient scholarships and grants to pay all fees and another 10 percent pay less than the full fees. Almost 75 percent of CSUSB students receive financial aid

Academic Excellence Scholarship program
Initiated in 2002 by university president, Albert K. Karnig, the President’s Academic Excellence Scholarship program invites the top 1 percent of graduating high school seniors in San Bernardino County to attend Cal State San Bernardino. The program provides a full scholarship, including tuition, books and a small stipend, to eligible students and is renewable for up to four academic years. The program is designed to attract the best and brightest students to CSUSB who might otherwise be lured to colleges outside the area. As of fall 2008, there were 140 enrolled presidential scholars.

The first major donor to this program was Evelyn Magnuson, who extended her legacy in 2008 through a planned gift making CSUSB a beneficiary of her $2.4 million estate.

Student life
Like many other universities, much of the student life on campus revolves around extensive local outreach and retention programs. In addition, Having the third highest Latino and African American of any university in California, CSUSB has a very diverse campus of different ethnicities and nationalities. CSUSB is home to over more than 100 student clubs and organizations, including academic, cultural, religious, service and political organizations.

Housing
Cal State San Bernardino's residence halls, which are referred to as "The Villages", consist of three structures&mdash;Serrano Village, Arrowhead Village, and the University Village&mdash;which can house more than 1,500 students in triple, double and single rooms.

Student organizations, and activities
Student media organizations include the Coyote Chronicle, the student newspaper that is a part of the college media network, and the Coyote Radio , which is the connection for music, local news, talk and campus information, and is one of only 50 college stations around the world listed as an official iTunes college station. Coyote Radio recently became the home and partner to Isla Earth, the award-winning radio science program. CSUSB also contains the largest indoor facility in the Inland Empire, the Coussoulis Arena, with the ability of seating 5,000 people. The Coussoulis Arena is the site of concerts, entertainment activities, commencement ceremonies and also serves with kinesiology classes.

Athletics
thumb|left|CSUSB Coyotes logo In 2009, CSUSB intercollegiate athletics celebrated its 25th anniversary. Established in 1984, the program offers men's and women's basketball and soccer, men's golf and baseball and women's softball, tennis, cross country, water polo and volleyball. The school's athletic mascot is the Coyote and the school colors are blue (Pantone 300) and black.

The Coyotes play in the California Collegiate Athletic Association in the NCAA's Division II. The men's and women's basketball and women's volleyball teams play in the James & Aerianthi Coussoulis Arena, and the baseball team plays at Arrowhead Credit Union Park in downtown San Bernardino.

Since 1984, the Coyotes have taken many local and regional championships and regularly finish high up in national tournaments. The men’s soccer team went to the NCAA Division III national semifinals in 1987 and captured the university’s first NCAA Division II California Collegiate Athletic Association title in 1991. In 1997, Scott Householder grabbed the university’s sole national championship to date with a 273 for 72 holes, a record that still stands. Men’s golf has finished third in the national tournament three times in its history. In baseball, the men’s team took West Region titles in 1990 and 1991. The men’s basketball team has three West Region titles to its credit along with eight CCAA championships and one trip to the NCAA national semifinals. The CSUSB women’s volleyball team has won six CCAA and three West Region titles, has gone to the NCAA Division II semifinals twice, in 2003 and in 2008, when it advanced to the finals, narrowly losing its first national championship by two points.