<p>For those of you, especially parents, who are replying with a sour grapes attitude, please don’t. These same “rejected” students may also face not being hired by employers in the future, even though they might be highly qualified. But, that doesn’t mean there won’t be another career opportunity waiting for them, just as there will be a good college match. My daughter didn’t get into every school she applied for, however we looked at it as “You win some, you lose some.” We never once had a sour grapes attitude. For obvious reasons they cannot admit every qualified student. We know kids who were accepted to schools with lower stats than my daughter, so in a way, it CAN be a crapshoot. You or your kids will eventually end up right where they belong. Please don’t stick your tongue out at Cal Poly or any other schools they were denied admission. And, when students don’t always get their classes or end up with a crummy professor, chalk it up as another learning experience along the way. That’s life. And, as parents, we cannot always be there to hold our young adults’ hand. This is what growing up is all about. :)</p>
<p>Pretty amazed at the resentful attitudes here. It’s been well established that their acceptance process is pretty ambiguous. Those of you whining about “last minute decisions” do realize that a lot of schools don’t release decisions until the very end of April, right? </p>
<p>If you’re going to have a “they suck so good riddance” attitude about being rejected, don’t bother posting back here because nobody wants to hear it.</p>
<p>EDIT: +1 to the poster above me, who has more patience than I do. </p>
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<p>@codywill and 2Leashes</p>
<p>Yes to everything you guys said a million times. If you’re that upset about the decision you can appeal, and if that doesn’t work you just need to accept the reality and move on. It’s called life. </p>
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<p>Rejected Biology Makes no sense.
SAT 2120/1420(Math,Reading) ACT 32
GPA 4.5
In state , Got in UCI , GTech .
Tip for future Cal poly applicants : If your stats are high do not apply.</p>
<p>My son was ‘not selected’ (DENIED) today Econ major 3.2 and 1250/1600. Not surprised but disappointed nonetheless. We knew he was a long shot. Still waiting on CSULB and Chico’s Honors program. I wish they’d hurry up.</p>
<p>I am looking forward to focusing on the 5 schools he got into (Sonoma, Chico, Sac, Monterey and UOP).</p>
<p>Congrats to those who made it and empathetic best wishes to those who didn’t.</p>
<p>A number of posters here are expressing their frustrations, which is an acceptable use of CC. S was denied. He, and a growing number of his classmates were taken by surprise. According to their Naviance accounts not one single student in their score/GPA range has been denied or even wait listed in the past 3 years. In addition, this years accepted students clearly have lower stats. Private college counselors are reporting the same scenario. </p>
<p>The frustration comes from the fact that CP markets itself as a Stats school. No essay, no personal statement very little interest in EC’s. As such, when the math doesn’t work out it comes across as a misrepresentation on the part of the administration. S college counselor had seen the writing on the wall to some extent in that they advised each applicant that CP is no longer any ones’ safety and at this point ‘crap shoot’ is an appropriate description.</p>
<p>It is not all that unlikely that CP was told by the CSU overseers that it has gotten to ‘elite’ and needs bring down it’s average stats. This is CA. and all things are political.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear about those of you who didn’t get in. I can tell you are outstanding students with bright futures. So fret about it for a day, then move on. </p>
<p>I don’t know if you believe in fate, karma, destiny or what have you.</p>
<p>But when you look back on this in a year or so, I think that you will realize that the college you are going to was the right one for you.</p>
<p>@dietz199 “According to their Naviance accounts not one single student in their score/GPA range has been denied or even wait listed in the past 3 years.”</p>
<p>I don’t know how Naviance gets their data, but there were quite a few “very high stats” applicants waitlisted last year.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/1294407-w-i-t-l-i-s-t-e-d-rd.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/1294407-w-i-t-l-i-s-t-e-d-rd.html</a></p>
<p>not selected (not even waitlisted???)</p>
<p>Mechanical Eng
4.04 GPA
2140 SAT (710/720/710)
800 Math 2
750 Physics</p>
<p>33 ACT
AP CAlculus AB 5</p>
<p>ECs in Robotics/Technical theatre</p>
<p>Engineering is so tough there as seen by stats of those not getting in, the kids I know that did get in are off the charts. CP stats in sciences are way up this year. Stats are only lower for URM situations. If you look at all the posted stats, there is a trend. SAT needs to be closer to 2200 and GPA 4.3+ and then it’s almost a safety, depending on major. There are a zillion kids with 1900-2100 SATs, can’t take them all. So many kids are exceptional these days. I’m glad they get results out this early and of course rejections would be last, it is more important to keep those happy that got in, just business sense. Wait till all the UCs are out except the one that you are waiting for coming a week later… it is just a frustrating process from any school, no one does it perfect. Stanford sent out likely letters weeks ago that some got others didn’t. All kinds of crazy stuff goes on, just how it is, but from what goes on elsewhere, Cal Poly’s was pretty smooth and fast.</p>
<p>I have a friend who got into Mechanical Engineering with a 3.7 gpa (UW) and an 1850 SAT.
Not sure how he got in. His stats aren’t nearly as high as the CCers posting here.
Cal Poly admissions really are unpredictable.</p>
<p>I’m guessing URM, ya just don’t know what box he really checked…it’s not random, there is always a reason.</p>
<p>There are lots of reasons why some admissions decisions may appear “puzzling” on the surface. This thread discusses many of these reasons.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/1299252-overqualified-slo.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/1299252-overqualified-slo.html</a></p>
<p>Just found out that i was rejected. Political Science. GPA 4.0(UW). SAT 1500. Now I have to wait for UCs decisions later this month.</p>
<p>As for the URM…CP is a non-Affirmative Action school…at least that is what they claim. They are a NUMBERS school. The only supposed exception is their local service area.</p>
<p>@ralph4: GPA and SAT/ACT scores are uploaded from the source automatically to Naviance. Admissions decisions are entered by the students. It is extremely accurate. For the case of CP Naviance does NOT detail to which major a student applied. However, the overall acceptances for S HS are ACT average 29/ GPA average 3.87. He was well above both of those, as were his friends who were also rejected.</p>
<p>@dietz Since Admission decisions are entered by the students, could it be that those who were accepted happily entered their decision into Naviance, while those unhappy students who were rejected weren’t inclined to enter their decision? Perhaps this could explain why “not one single student in their score/GPA range has been denied or even wait listed in the past 3 years” according to Naviance. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, California is a BIG state. There are MANY very highly qualified (4.2+, ACT 30+, SAT 2000+) college applicants. And for Engineering, Cal Poly is a MOST ATTRACTIVE option for any budget minded in-state family. It is recognized nationally as a top undergrad Engineering school, and it is in a fabulous location on the central California coast! It’s cost is significantly less than the UC’s and a small fraction of the cost of privates or OOS schools. So TOO MANY aspiring engineers apply to Cal Poly. In AERO and BMED engineering there is room for less than 100 new admits, while in MechE they can take almost 200. But the problem lies in the fact that the number of highly qualified (even elite) applicants for these programs HIGHLY EXCEEDS the number of openings. Therefore, each year we see results like those displayed here on this thread that VERY HIGH STATS kids are being rejected from Cal Poly. This problem seems to get worse every year as both the cost of a college education and the reputation of Cal Poly continue to rise.</p>
<p>@Ralph4, I agree that engineering at Cal Poly is high competitive and draws the top students (like many other CP majors). Merely pointing out the competitive nature of the programs does not full explain CPs wack-a-doddale admissions criteria. As publicly funded institution Cal Poly should be under some obligation to disclose the banded algorithms used for determining admissions for student athletes, OOS and CA Residents. Simply reporting an average GPA SAT ACT does not cut the mustard. Obviously CP manipulates it applicant pool (more importantly it’s notification protocol) to further the school’s goals and inflate prestige. Wouldn’t it be nice if CP was more forth coming regarding the calculations? After all, CP’s primary mission is to serve the residents of CA. This is not sour grapes, as my daughter just toured a private (where she was admitted with merit and $$). I am more concerned about the high jacking of my CA tax dollars by an insistution which believes itself to be so above the needs of the public that it can’t provide a quantifiable report.</p>
<p>@momneeds2no Every year Cal Poly’s Office of Institutional Planning and Analysis publishes the Factbook (2011’s is found here: <a href=“http://ipa.calpoly.edu/publications_reports/factbook/fbfall11.pdf[/url]”>IR Home - Institutional Research - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; ). I believe it contains all the standard information about the school and it’s admissions process that is part of the Common Data Set ( [Common</a> Data Set Initiative](<a href=“http://www.commondataset.org/]Common”>http://www.commondataset.org/) ) that colleges everywhere publish. Cal Poly’s admissions process is documented up to the accepted standard.</p>
<p>It’s not a wackadoodle selection nor was its notification. It is so quick compared to others! If you look the kids getting in (with very few exceptions and there are reasons for those exceptions) they are off the charts in GPA and test scores. Yes, private schools have money to give, since they run 50k+ they have to in order to tempt good students. The high end academic kids (the ones accepted to CP or just missing the mark) typically get the money to bring their cost in line with UCs and CP state schools, however they frequently don’t have the strong engineering CP does. But they can have other things, just have to decide what’s right.</p>
<p>@ralph The college counselors make absolutely sure each and every admissions decision for each student and each college is entered. The will not sign off on certain items until this is completed by the students. So, in our particular case, the Naviance data is spot on.</p>