San Jose State UniversityAI Policy for Admissions

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  “First-Time, First-Year applicants must first meet the CSU eligibility requirements for admission. Learn about the A-G courses required for admission and how an Eligibility Index is calculated. Applicants are then reviewed for provisional admission through SJSU's admission selection process, called impaction.”

  Admissions Requirements

  Verified Aug 2026
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  “No AI-specific admissions policy was found on the reviewed page; the first-year admissions process is driven by CSU eligibility and campus impaction criteria without a general essay requirement.”

  First-Time, First-Year Steps to Admission

  Verified Aug 2026

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  SJSU's standard first-year admissions process is driven by CSU eligibility and campus impaction criteria. The reviewed application steps do not include a general admissions essay or publish an AI-writing rule for one. No AI-specific admissions policy was found on the reviewed pages.

This research focused on SJSU's general first-year undergraduate admissions pages. The pages reviewed describe CSU eligibility requirements and SJSU's impaction-based selection process but do not mention any general admissions essay requirement or AI-use policy. The absence of an essay requirement means there is no AI policy to govern essay writing for standard admission. However, some programs may have supplemental criteria that could include essays; those were not reviewed in this scope. The university's admissions process appears to be largely formulaic, based on eligibility index and impaction criteria, rather than holistic review of essays.