Anyone heard from Cal Poly Pomona yet?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cal Poly Pomona
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<p>@tum741: I’m not saying that they taught at ivies, lol. I know that the ones I did know about either went there for undergraduate or graduate school. Some but not all of my honors teachers had gone to ivies, such as my art teacher. I can see why they ended up at a CC to be honest, though. My honors art teacher had undergrad at Princeton and I think she is just the most boring and dry person to ever teach the subject. My first stats professor was at Princeton as well and the guy is a genius, just very socially inept (but somehow a brilliant teacher). There’s a chemistry teacher here who went to Yale and then UC Berkeley for graduate school that is a really great but hard teacher here. There’s a lot of UCLA alumni as far as I know that were undergrads, though. I’m going to say a lot of teachers here were also ivy league undergrads but went elsewhere for grad school. No doubt that most of my teachers I’ve had received a good education. A good amount have their PhD’s as well. My favorite math teacher went to MIT for graduate school from UCLA. Blah blah blah. </p>

<p>I’m from Antelope Valley College. It’s in Lancaster. It’s a good college, but I think things are taking a turn for the worse right now and I’m glad I’m leaving at the time where I hear cut after cut being made to classes and funding at this place.</p>

<p>I know a lot of people that get good GPA’s from here and are highly motivated honors students often get into UC Berkeley or UCLA from here, though. I am surprised that most of the people I met went to Berkeley. At the very least, UCSD. But they are in no way the average student and I can’t speak for other majors outside of science. If you want to transfer to a UC and have a 3.5 ish, I think that would get you into most UC’s besides UCSD/UCLA/UCB.</p>

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<p>Lol sorry I misread that. Some of my ap teachers went to ivies and their great. Where did you get in? I’m so worried that I might be stuck in the hell holes the CCCs have recently become. I’m wait listed at other schools except CPP right now. But I know if I go to CC I will be aiming high.</p>

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<p>Once we pass the May 1 deadline, I hope CPP makes the right decision and choose those tho waited for them >__<. Or at least have the Admissions office call us to see whether we’re still interested or not so they can save time on looking at people’s records :/… Buuuuut. Oh well so swell.</p>

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<p>Was anyone accepted these past couple days?</p>

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<p>Barely anyone got accepted. I only heard of 2 stories so far, nothing grand :/.</p>

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<p>I see… I guess we will really have to wait until june…</p>

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<p>YOUR!
did u get accepted yet?
lol</p>

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<p>Butterz I dont get what you did there sorry</p>

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<p>Guys, I also applied for Cal Poly Pomona. I have a 4.6 GPA, but my SAT’s are 1640; 590 for math, 530 Writing and 520 Critical Reading.</p>

<p>I applied for Aerospace Engineering months ago, still no reply. And my backup major is Graphic Design, which I understand is not impacted.</p>

<p>My question is, do I still have a chance of getting in, knowing I haven’t heard anything yet?</p>

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<p>@Analog805 Yes, you still have a chance. Just because you haven’t found out about your status doesn’t mean you’re rejected. All you need to know is…</p>

<p>Budget cuts. It hurts. :)</p>

<p>There’s hope for you… Especially you.</p>

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<p>@analog Maybe they think you are over qualified. Did you get accepted to CalPoly SLO or apply to otherr prestigious schools like ?cal poly? Analog maybe you didnt meet other requirements.</p>

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<p>friend got in today -_-</p>

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<p>@Caldude & other potential CC folks. I personally have attended CC for much longer than I feel comfortable disclosing (lol) & I will say there are some upsides to it.</p>

<p>Sure, $46 a unit seems pretty steep, however, most UC’s & Cal States (don’t even get me started on privates!) charge something like 5-8k PER semester or quarter. However you do the math, that’s way more than $46 a unit.</p>

<p>Classes are impacted because of budget cuts. The schools simply don’t have enough money to offer as many classes as they used to, but there are things you can do to give yourselves priority.
A great example is becoming an honors student. There’s a nationally recognized society called Phi Theta Kappa, in which you have to maintain a certain GPA (I believe 3.25) & take 5 classes or 15 cumulative units. This gives you a “Special” PTK status on your transcripts AND priority enrollment. Plus it looks great for future colleges & from what I’ve heard, is a great way to get into schools like LA or Berkeley (I just got into Davis myself)</p>

<p>I believe they also offer priority enrollment in CC’s to athletes, work study students, etc. So there are ways of getting into science classes.</p>

<p>I actually work at my JC’s chemistry lab, setting up their experiments, and from what i’ve seen, professors will draw names to see who gets in or not, but some (most) professors really appreciate persistence. You don’t do much in lab for the first two weeks except for check in, so you won’t be missing much - JUST GO TO THE LECTURE CLASS! </p>

<p>The other advantage of CC is of course you don’t have to declare a major. There’s about 30 units of general education you will have to take at your destination school, so take it at a JC instead! Everything from Writing, speech, humanities, science, blah blah - these are all a great way to find out if you’re really interested in your subject!</p>

<p>One thing I will say is that talking to the counselors is pretty useless, & you’re much better off visiting websites like assist.org or talking to counselors at the school you really want to go to for academic advice. </p>

<p>So guys, even if you didn’t get into your dream school, don’t sweat. CC is a great way to save some money & try again! :]</p>

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<p>He’s not over qualified, when you have a very high gpa and mediocre sat score it’s a sign of grade inflation.</p>

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<p>@vruski: CC’s are good for their price if you compare, yes. Personally though, I regret going to a CC, but I guess it’s like that when you figure out what you want to do with your life. For instance, you can get a headstart on research opportunities by going directly to university. I think I have only a summer really to do anything after my junior year before I apply to graduate school. There’s not much opportunity at least as far as I’ve been aware to conduct research and be part of programs and get internships at places like NASA for community college students. There’s not much outreach and you’re going to have to heavily go look for opportunities (if any exist). They didn’t even have a Physics Club, Rocket Club, or Science club here until this spring, after I’ve applied in November. So, I would say if you know exactly what you want to do that requires research it would probably be a better idea (like for me) to have gone to university in the first place. </p>

<p>Getting priority registration is a good thing by becoming an honors student, yes. I was an honors student, but I think that by doing that it’s a waste of time if you want to go out of state or to Cal Poly Pomona/Cal Poly SLO. We call it “TAP” (Transfer Alliance Program) and trust me, if you want to go to Berkeley, you don’t need to do this. Plenty of my friends were not honors students and got into Berkeley. Maybe that varies by which CC you go to but there was no such articulation agreement with Berkeley for mine. Only UCLA, Chapman, Pomona College, UC Irvine, etc. However, if you’ve already been in community college for two years (like I have) and am on a third, your priority doesn’t change much being a normal student compared to being an honor student. </p>

<p>I agree very much that the counselors are useless. I think they should get rid of the lot of them. Doing your own browsing online is going to serve you 150% better than talking to one of them. I feel like their objective is to keep you there as long as possible. </p>

<p>So, in conclusion, I agree with vruski on most points. If you don’t know what you want to do yet and you want to save money, CC is a great choice. If you DO know, I think you’d be much better off going to a university, but I think that just depends on what you want to major in and what you want to do. Another piece of advice I would give is to use ratemyprofessors to avoid some considerable misery.</p>

<p>@tum741:</p>

<p>Purdue - West Lafayette
CSU - Northridge
CSU - Fresno
University of Evansville
Emory
UMass - Amherst</p>

<p>As you can see, I’m not really interested in staying in California. Aha. I would definitely consider staying if Cal Poly Pomona accepted me, though. For many personal reasons it is geographically the best for me to go there.</p>

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<p>Yea…My GPA is only around 3.4, but I got 19XX on my SAT…</p>

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<p>@bl4ke His/her eligibility index is nearly 5000. That’s definitely overqualified for csu standards.</p>

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<p>@jljl123 what’s your friend’s stats?</p>

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<p>Got in so relieved! 2.93 GPA 1060/1600 SAT major is business.</p>

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<p>@konkado PLEASE TELL ME YOU ARE OUT OF THE SERVICE AREA!! ARE YOU? Better not be trolling</p>