My kid got in! Woo hoo! But the email they sent said that they got 6/65,000 applications 5000 or so “available spaces.” What does that mean the acceptance rate is? Surely it can’t be 8%??
SLO will accept more applicants than spots since not all applicants will enroll. Assume around 3x as many accepted applicants vs. spots so around 15,000. Much depends upon their yield which they do not publish.
And that 15000/65000 would be overall acceptance rate estimate. Acceptance rates vary by major. The school publishes their target enrollment projections every year. And those list target enrollment per major (spots to fill for that major) along with total applications received for it. So using those figures (finding your major and looking at FTF numbers) you can guesstimate acceptance rate per major using the 3x method described above. FTF = first time freshmen. https://content-calpoly-edu.s3.amazonaws.com/ir/1/images/2018-2019%20Enrollment%20Targets%20and%20Projections.pdf
In a recent year, Cal Poly accepted 17,006 applicants in order to fill its class. So figure about a 26% overall acceptance rate for this year.
@Gumbymom - Actually, Cal Poly does publish their yields in each year’s Factbook. The “Yield Rates” tab in 2017’s “Admissions Applicants and Yields Profile” page (https://ir.calpoly.edu/2017-admissions-applicants-and-yields) shows the following annual Freshmen yields: 2013=34.9%; 2014=34.4%; 2015=33.7%; 2016=30.6%; 2017=31.2%. These yields are for all of Cal Poly, but the Factbook’s data-rich contents also contains yields (as well as acceptance %s) for each school.
@Lecter, they also publish yields by college, but those numbers are all virtually meaningless. There is SO much variation by major, and yields by major aren’t published, that I just use 33% to make the math easy. It’s not perfect, but it is as good as we can get.