<p>It's about my brother, who got accepted to Cal Poly SLO for this Fall.
On application, he wrote he would take 2 Physics class, which is their requirement.
But he couldn't take one of them, since it wasn't offered at his school.
The problem is that he didn't write them a letter about it.</p>
<p>He was admitted on February, and sent his transcript including in-progress classes.
He didn't think he need to report his class change,
because the transcript itself obviously showed that he's missing one Physics class.
And the school hadn't said anything about Physics class since FEBRUARY.</p>
<p>He sent his final transcript on July, and just received an letter yesterday that
his admmision has been cancelled, because what he had put on his application is
differerent from what they see in the final transcript.</p>
<p>If only school notified him earlier, he could have took Summer course or
could have enrolled other school that accepted him, but it's now too late for that. </p>
<p>He's going to call their admission officer tomorrow,
but what are his chances getting in again?</p>
<p>Pretty low. It is his responsibility to keep track of his records. Colleges have thousands of applicants, so they are not going to be able to hold everybody’s hand.</p>
<p>Your brother said he would take two physics classes, and he could’ve taken two (one in the summer), but he decided instead to take one and blow the other off. He knows what he wrote on his application, and while his in progress transcript showed only one physics class, he knew he was expected to complete the second class before the fall. College is for adults, and it is not the school’s responsibility to remind students of their commitments and due dates. I don’t know whether an exception will be made for your brother, but there are lots of responsible students who are serious about their studies who would like to take his place.</p>
<p>There have been several of these posts recently regarding CSUs. Unfortunately, they are huge bureaucracies. Students must know the rules and follow them exactly. I don’t think you can win this one. They are overcrowded and this is one way to get rid of excess students.</p>
<p>dntw8up, those two Physics class were indeed a pre-req for his major, but it wasn’t a must-have necessity to have all 12 pre-req courses done before the fall. That’s why he didn’t take Physics over summer, since he thought that school still accepted him knowing that he won’t have two Physics complete. The admission was only provisional when he first got accepted, and after seeing his in-progress transcript(which had 1 Physics), they accepted him.</p>
<p>But I quite agree with you most part. I think his chances are low, especially with these enormous excess students and low fundings at school. But I just wish the school notified him earlier though…at least not after he attened orientation and all :P</p>
<p>If your brother can’t get into the college, he’ll have to work out a “Plan B” … and he’s not alone. I hear these kind of stories almost daily now. The one I heard yesterday was about a student at San Jose State University who was told that she would not be allowed to get into the teacher certification program… they had cut the numbers from about 150 to about 94. Her only option is to wait a full year to hook back into the program next fall. No word yet if she will be able to get into a different CSU’s certification program for this fall, but I’m guessing not.</p>
<p>I also know at SJSU that 3rd year German classes were canceled because the class sizes were too small. I don’t know the personal stories, but the obvious fallout is upcoming or half-way through German major or minor student is now out of luck because the required class (which is a full year series) is gone this year.</p>
<p>A lot of students are going to find their progress/graduation/transfer/certification plans delayed by a year or more by the cuts in the CSU/UC systems. Minor discrepancies for transfer students that in the past could be waived will not be so easy to have overlooked now. And even once at the college, class offerings are being seriously cut back to the point of effectively eliminating certain majors/minors and certifications.</p>
<p>Yeah, public schools across the country have become less tolerant of transfer transcript shortcomings, and they aren’t likely to be flexible about major prerequisites, but I hope your brother can work something out.</p>
<p>He just called the admission office and was told that they simply can’t offer him admission, because the admission is just too competative this year. He had to take either two Physics or Chem for his major and took Chem instead, since Physics wasn’t offered. But it didn’t help either. They wanted him to do as exactly as what he wrote on his application, even though he fulfills all the requirement.
And now with Winter admission being gone, he has to wait one more year, and he already has 74 semester units. Bummer
I wonder if any other school who accepted him can still offer him an admission? Well, it’s unlikely this late, I know :P</p>
<p>The CSUs that <em>might</em> have empty spaces on campus are probably the unpopular ones - like Monterey or Stanislaw, etc - and probably don’t have well developed engineering courses.</p>
<p>Does SLO have an Open U option? (For example, at SJSU, a student can take Open U classes, up to 24 credits, that MAY transfer to SJSU if they get accepted at a later point, but no guarantees.)</p>
<p>If, however, it is truly “plan B” – he might want to take another year at CC and take some challenging courses to just round out his education (when else will he have a freebie year to do that?) – or take a year off and earn money – or try to find an internship or go abroad for awhile. </p>
<p>He needs to look at this like a “gap year” and make it MEAN something to <em>him</em>. Really – when he’s 60 years old, he won’t care if he got his BS degree when he was 22, 24 or 26. Really. Whatever ship he wants to sail on will swing around into the bay again every single year for the rest of his life – and he’s not the only one who lost his boarding pass this year. The only thing he can do, assuming other options are closed, is to do something COOL this year that has him experience life, work, education in a different way. Tell him to get really depressed and sad for about a week - and then to go do something vibrant and interesting with his gap year.</p>
<p>Thanks for the comforting words, annikasorrense! And SLO does have an Open U, but its courses are completely irrelevant to his major. He will talk to his CC’s counselor to find more about his option. </p>
<p>The website([Transfer</a> Selection Criteria -Admissions- Cal Poly](<a href=“http://admissions.calpoly.edu/undergrad/transfer-models/cscsea.html]Transfer”>Cal Poly Admissions)) clearly says that Physics can be satisfied by 9 units or more of Chemistry, which he has done. But the admission officer told him that one of his Chemistry class had to go as Science elective, which is not even mentioned as requirement on their website. O well. The officer had been quite clear that they cannot offer him admission, so nothing can be done now.</p>
