<p>When did I judge anyone? I just said that no one knows what kind of approach the admissions is office is going with this time around because they have so many applicants. I didn’t try to offend anyone by any means.</p>
<p>I may irritate some by stating this but I think it’s so exciting, kind of like Christmas, don’t know what you’re going to get. My D is anxious but the anticipation is exhilarating. She really wants to attend CP and we hope she’s selected. I know she will be happy wherever she decides to go and we will happily support her. Good luck to all!</p>
<p>I, too, find it really weird that Cal Poly allows people to sign up for housing when not everyone has received their acceptance notifications yet.</p>
<p>I have recently been accepted on “terms and conditions”, assuming I pass all my current classes, etc… but am paranoid about signing up for housing so soon - the housing application is available tomorrow but I haven’t even received my acceptance letter in the mail yet (I’ve only seen the acceptance notification on the website) …not sure what to do?</p>
<p>@collegebound: S applied to ME and is still in the anxiety producing ‘no determination has been made’ state.</p>
<p>Another day 
may today bring news- good or bad I’m not going to be checking the portal until tonight. We choose how we spend our time and what affects us- I’m not letting CP have that control. 
Whatever happens, happens :). Wishing everyone a day of information & peace! �� ��</p>
<p>MyHeart- if you know for sure that you want to attend CP, you can go ahead and reserve housing. The website will not let you accept admission or housing unless they have already accepted you, so even though you have not received a letter you are in. The terms and conds. can be found on their website- they are the standard things about maintaining your GPA and no D’s or F’s. My son has not received an official letter yet either- I don’t think anyone has.</p>
<p>I think if some people are this stressed about the way admissions are handled they are in for a bumpy ride in college, moreso at a public school - when they don’t get the classes they want, have a stinker for a professor, budget cuts eliminate this or that, or whatever up and downs come along. Can’t fix it for them parents, kids have to deal with this stuff on their own now, best to have a positive attitude about it. And the housing does work out, a lot of people don’t apply till later as many are waiting on other decisions and there is plenty of housing choices.</p>
<p>@Socal29fan.
That’s the right attitude in my opinion. I’ll be doing the same thing waiting till tonight to check. Good luck!! </p>
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<p>I emailed the housing office yesterday asking how they can begin offering housing options when not all accepted applicants have been notified. I received this reply today:
Hello Lisa:</p>
<p>We work with Admissions and open our Housing application once students have been notified of admittance into Cal Poly. I’m forwarding your questions and concerns to Admissions for clarification.</p>
<p>Should you have any further questions, please contact us at 805-756-1226.</p>
<p>Thank you,
Monica Delbar
University Housing
805-756-1226
[University</a> Housing for On-Campus Students - University Housing - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo](<a href=“http://housing.calpoly.edu%5DUniversity”>http://housing.calpoly.edu)</p>
<p>Just checked my Cal Poly Portal and housing application has been delayed (because of a server issue) til Friday, March 8, so hopefully more of you will have received your acceptance notifications by then, even if it is only a few days away. Best of luck to everyone! :)</p>
<p>This is what I suspect. Purely speculation. I think Cal ply segments the applicant pool accordingly.
- a certain number of qualified out of staters. (increases revenue per student)But yield for this group is probably below average.
- a small portion of super crazy high stat kids (to drive-up the average accepted applicant stat.) a good number of these kids will also have IVY and UCB?UCLA?UCSD and full ride acceptances, so yield for this group is low.
- Then the “target applicants” are accepted. (to drive up yield) these are the kids that, based upon historical stats and answers to suplimental questions (WORK?EC,ZIP CODE and High School), will most likely attend and not transfer out.
Cal Poly waits to see how many send kid deposits and commit. Then, the second wave goes out.
The idea is to make as much $$ per student, show high stats, high yield and competitive admissions rates.<br>
If CalPloly only offered admission to the most qualified students (based purely on GPA?SAT) then yield would be low and accepted:applied ratio would be high. Making CAL POLY appear less competitive on paper. "less competitive schools draw less OOS applicants and less employment recruiters.<br>
The idea is build a demand based upon manipulated admissions stats.
For those lucky enough to fall within the “high yield band” congrats!!!
Rest assured Cal Poly is admissions procedure is a higly calculated game based upon historical yield models.</p>
<p>They take some really high stat kids first to get them emotionally invested in the school while they wait to hear on their other schools. Until a student/family has another option, they really think about the one they have in hand. I haven’t noticed if it’s just the high end/honors types kids that know now or not.</p>
<p>it definitely seems like it, in my class, i’ve talked to people from CS, Mechanical Engineering, and BA, and out of the kids that heard from the first wave (me not included) the kids that were definitely going to Ivy or upper UCs heard back first, the lower stat kids in my school haven’t heard. Unless it was a major like food science, or animal science.</p>
<p>With reference to above post, I’ll add: The reason housing registration is opening 3/8 is to entice the OOS and high stat kids to commit before Ivy’s release in three weeks. Thus, increasing CALPOLY’s yield, gross income, and rejection rate. </p>
<p>“Rest assured Cal Poly is admissions procedure is a highly calculated game based upon historical yield models.” Admissions decisions are not a definitive reflection of how well a student is prepared for success at Cal Poly or college in general. For example, oos student is given priority. A student from a (Cal poly friendly) CA public high school is more likely to gain admission, than a student from havard-westlake (no offense hw). THE HW student is more likely to gain admission to USC. And believe it or not , the out of pocket cost might even be similar (depending upon mom&dads income). </p>
<p>It’s a numbers game. The public Cal Uni’s win and the resident students place second (if we’re lucky). </p>
<p>Has anyone been rejected? Didn’t think so. CALPOLY keeps all students with at least a 3.0, 800 SAT (400 each test), no Ds, the basic prep requirements until the bitter end. (waiting in the wings until cal poly fills it’s dance card with OOS & 4.8/2400s.) My D is STILL WAITING on her OCTOBER application. She flew east this week to tour the schools which gave her substantial merit and finAid. If you have the average Cal Poly stats, are a serious student, with related ECs, then you can probably score aid at private and graduate in four years and not be hoodwinked into believing that CALPOLY is your future emperor’s new clothes.</p>
<p>My son has 3 friends who have been rejected. His application is still undecided. His friends had simliar GPA’s 3.2-303 and SAT’s 1000ish…same as my son.</p>
<p>He has approval letters from every where else he’s applied…be nice to know if this is an option or not.</p>
<p>The wait is absolutely tormenting and very unorganized. It’s a flaw, but nothing’s perfect I suppose. I can only hope for the best!</p>
<p>@momneeds2no</p>
<p>I agree with certain aspects of your logic, and I certainly concur that Cal Poly, like any other university in the US, “manage” their admission process closely in order to maximize yield and incoming students’ stats. I think if you were the president of the University (any university), you would be remiss if you didn’t do the same. Albeit, I admit they need to do a better job in organizing the release of admission notice. No argument there. </p>
<p>Where I would disagree is your assumption that Cal Poly is in direct competition with the Ivies for new students. Since I attended both Cal Poly and Harvard, I feel knowledgeable enough to say that for undergraduate, CP is not in the direct race for Ivy/Stanford/MIT qualified students (at least the non-legacy, truly scholastically gifted ones). </p>
<p>Cal Poly is primarily competing for strong students who have been cross-admitted to UCD, UCSB, UCSD, UCI, and sprinkle of UCLA and UCB. OOS student population consists of 14% of the school, so they might play more games with that segment than the rest. </p>
<p>I think the only direct competition Cal Poly has with the Ivies is that CP will be playing against Yale in football in a few months in SLO.</p>
<p>@momneeds2no</p>
<p>"…and not be hoodwinked into believing that CALPOLY is your future emperor’s new clothes." Why are you even interested then? Honestly, if you will get this fed up with just waiting, perhaps Cal Poly is not for you, let alone any university. Hopefully your kids know there is way more waiting left to be done in life. As for rejections… all you need to do is go back two pages to find someone with solid stats get rejected. Perhaps if there was less clutter from people complaining about the same stuff or feeling the need to update everyone on their “no determination” status every day, you would have noticed.</p>
<p>I think the official word (and robo info when you call admissions) is that all decisions will have been made by April 2nd.</p>
<p>“Since I attended both Cal Poly and Harvard, I feel knowledgeable enough to say that for undergraduate, CP is not in the direct race for Ivy/Stanford/MIT qualified students (at least the non-legacy, truly scholastically gifted ones).”</p>
<p>I am going to say that I am not certain this is 100% accurate. My S is Ivy League material, extremely scholastically gifted, and a non-legacy. His extracurriculars are not on the same level as his peers, they are MIT material. We spent months researching what are the best programs in the field he wants to pursue his career in. Thus he did apply to Caltech, MIT, USC, the UCs but also felt CP SLO’s program was worthy as well. (He didn’t like Stanford so would not apply.) We visited almost all of the schools last year, including SLO. Within days of applying to San Diego State regular action he received an offer from them, months before other students. And like almost everyone on here posting, he has not received a response yet from SLO. He does want an answer from them though before depositing somewhere because he is looking at the whole package of the school. From their campus location to the ability to obtain employment and connections in his field after graduation. I am not posting this to be argumentative, just to highlight that some kids are drawn to different things, and don’t always choose the college that expectation would dictate is within their reach.</p>