@windchime1 Waitlist / denies are very last decisions to roll out. Cal Poly accepts high tution out of state students first, then In state students with MCA scores indicating likely commits (zip code, first gen, ect) Then, cal poly waits to see what percentage commits (aka pays the housing deposit). Then, once cal poly has good idea of first tier yield, they release the round two. The idea is to manage yield and show as slim acceptance rate as possible.
@Gumbymom I recall question about income on application. For OOS, do you know if answer matters?
@momneeds2no sorry that was for you ^^^
Strange there’s no environmental engineering yet. In state with uc gpa of 4.17 and act 32. This is difficult…i did not realize for out of state its only 10 grand more to attend cal poly…but for californians to go out of state, for example to Purdue its double…keeping hopeful…
@calirain please realize that only a very small portion of the applicant pool post on college confidential. In fact, I’d agrue that the self reported stats shown here are not indicative of actual results. For instate applicants, factors other GPA/test scores play a large part in admin algorithms. For example, if you attend a CA public high school with a high yield history, your are more likely to gain admission. Check with your HS college office to learn if any of your class have acceptances yet.
How would the high school know?
I would assume naviance? I’ve already logged in all of my daughter’s acceptances and waitlists.
Because our high school does not have Naviance and because the Cal State application does not require any references, recommendations or transcript uploads I don’t believe my daughter’s High School even knows she applied.
@VickiSoCal that’s very interesting. Does your daughter’s high school not offer any college guidance? Even at schools with limited resources, guidance will know when kids start hearing back, just because the kids are excited to spread the good news.
We have five counselors for 2800 students. For the Common App where she had to have the guidance counselor submit stuff I assume he knows where she applied for the UC and Cal State apps he does not.
I think they ask them to fill out something at the end of the year with their final plans.
@VickiSoCal 5 counselors for 2800 seniors? That’s one very large high school. Or is it 5, with a senior class of 700? Your daughter may not communicate with college guidance, but its pretty safe to assume that some of her classmates do–especially classmates focused on applying to cal states and those classmates without the benefit of highly savvy parental support.
Back to my original offer of experience, if a student hasn’t heard from cal poly and other students from his/her high school have been accepted, then there is a very strong chance that no news is bad news. That is cal poly traditional style of managing yield and putting the previewed reputation above the needs of students–it’s a culture thing.
@momneeds2no - This jives with what I suspected - that your high school helps you - based on my son’s stats for electrical engineering compared to the posted ones here. His GPA is a bit low, his MCA as I calculated it seems low, though his ACTs are 98-99%-ile and he will come in with 14 APs which probably puts him in the top tier of applicants, but his high school sends at least 7-8 kids a year to SLO (based on the school newspapers I’ve collected from the last two graduating classes, it could be more). I already know of one other boy from his class accepted to SLO yesterday (liberal arts) and he is a good student with some APs and honors classes but I don’t think he applied to any UCs.
Before things get out of hand, please realize that no one on this board can speak on behalf of Cal Poly Admissions. To get another perspective, read posts #22 - 39 here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/1862751-slo-p2.html
@ocmom1000, it’s entirely possible that your son’s high school “helped him” because it’s a Partner School. If it is, there is a good chance you will get invited to a reception for area Partner School admitted students. They did that last year in Berkeley about a month after the admissions decisions started being released.
@lkg4answers Good catch! And the debate rolls on–lol. A few things to consider: Cal Ploy SLO changed some procedures this year, primarily No ED. And it seems that RD portal updates are a week earlier? No? So who’s to say how this year’s the decision time lime will come to a close. One thing that’s for sure, as others have pointed out, Cal Ploy SLO waits till the bitter end to notify “declined” applicants, which is contrary to every other state funded Uni. And in my opinion, unnecessarily drama inducing for thousands of CA high school seniors–aka disrespectful and dismissive of the public who funds thier fiefdom.
I got in and I applied under Physics (astrophysics concentration) with my alternate being aerospace engineering. My ACT (28) and SAT (1230) scores were subpar but I had a 4.69 HS GPA and took numerous college courses at a CC. I had doubts about being admitted because I applied under a capped major. I don’t know if those who recently were admitted were also under capped majors, maybe that’s a component as well?
@berkelymom4 - I tried googling for a list of Poly’s partner schools but came up empty. We live in Orange County so I doubt we are a partner. Moreover, that program sounds like it’s for schools that don’t send a lot of kids to college and that isn’t the case with our school.
Also a envir eng applicant and have not heard anything yet… did your portal change today
Still waiting on environmental engineering too…
My son was accepted into Civil Engineering with:
ACT Comp: 30
ACT Math: 35
ACT Eng: 28
ACT Read: 27
Superscore Math/Eng: 33
UC WGPA: 3.81
UWGPA: 3.67
IB Program student
Extra Curriculars:
JV/Varsity Baseball
JV/Varsity Basketball
Founder/ President/ Coordinator/ Tutor for a Tutoring Program for Athletes
Physical Therapist Assistant
Baseball Clinic and Field Cleanup
Environmental Cleanup Club
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Residency: Out-of-State