<p>@Mwm013 All those service hours and great recs will mean something at another great school and get you in. Unfortunately in your case, they count for almost zip at CP. The AB calc this year may have been the “weakness” if you were applying for a science field. A lot of engineer types take Calc BC junior year and are in Multivariable this year (if the school offers it, not all do). With that kind of resume, I am sure there is another great school waiting for you!</p>
<p>@Longwait - UCSD’s are available now. Our S in EE at UCSD, but I think he is still leaning towards CP and waiting on Cal. Good luck, I hope he gets it!</p>
<p>GPA 4.43
SAT 1,860
24th in class of 740
Maximum honors courses
6 AP classes
Leadership (4 years) & Link Crew (3 years)
Selected by school staff, after interviewing, to run the entire homecoming weekend (HS has 3,500 students
10 years competitive soccer, including last 4 on national showcase teams</p>
<p>Obviously the SAT was a problem. But, when playing soccer 15 hours a week and traveling to 8 states last year, something has to give.</p>
<p>Accepted by UCSD in the Joint Math & Econ major. Go figure!</p>
<p>I have heard that Cal Poly is all about the numbers and the UCs take into account how well rounded the student is. This would support that.</p>
<p>Yup, got UCSD for my second choice of Biology General. I guess bioengineering is just not happening until next year, but either way I’m so happy!</p>
<p>My son was accepted to Cal Poly but put as his major Econ, which he already regrets. He’d rather do Physics. In light of their dictum about NOT changing majors, is there any way at all he could change his major before school starts?</p>
<p>People’s assumptions that Cal Poly should be easy to get into because it’s a CSU, and UCs like UCR/I/D/SB should be the tougher for admission compare to SLO has been outdated for better part of a decade.</p>
<p>Yes results are out for UCSD. My S is on the wait list. Bummer, this was his top choice (we live 10 miles away from UCSD) and it would saved us beaucoup $ in housing costs. He has been accepted with honors at SDSU, UCSC, and UCI. Waiting for UCSB, UCLA, and UCB, though we are not feeling so good about UCLA and UCB. This will be a tough decision for him: he wants to stay in San Diego area but he’s not so sure about SDSU (even tough I am an alumni from there). We will tour his accepted campus during Spring break and hope that UCSD will come through in the end.</p>
<p>Oh shucks longwait, but perhaps he will still get in - those waitlists have to move some don’t they? I would think you could call the admissions office and ask amount of kids they moved off of wait list last year. I thought SDSU was a pretty campus and they seemed to be doing a lot to it last year, but it may feel more “commuter” to him since he lives there…not thinking UCI? Certainly a great area in terms of upscale and safe being in OC and good engineering reputation. While not the plan you want to go to now, there is always the option of starting at SDSU and trying to transfer even after a year, but I realize that breaks up the college routine, and probably only if he really doesn’t like the other choices…I sincerely hope he get what he wants, you know he has some good options in there and will adapt to wherever he goes and in the end do really well and make lifelong friends!</p>
<p>To all the Cal Poly students who have been admitted, but know they are not going to attend - please let Cal Poly know sooner than later. There are a lot of stressed, wait listed applicants who could move into an admitted status. It would be great for wait listed applicants to not have to wait until May 15 to hear if they got in. Also, it would save parents $ by not having to put a deposit at another school (non refundable) and then find out their son/daughter got into Cal Poly. Thanks and good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Cal Poly has an excellent reputation in engineering. The engineering slots have the higher perceived value to Out Of State (“OOS”) students. OOS students will pay much higher tuition for these engineering slots relative to say a history major slot. Cal Poly has budget problems and needs to raise $$$. The best way to raise extra funds is be selling the engineering slots to OOS kids who pay much higher tuition. They can give local kids the lower demand majors (e.g. history, animal science, etc.) as OOS kids will no pay the OOS tuition for those majors. Bottom line is that this is all about the money, $$$. Cal Poly has a 5 minute application which only asks for ethnic background, gp and test score. At the end of the day it is all about the money. Same thing applies to the rest of the schools. When you apply as an OOS student the response time is much faster as you fall into a different bucket which pays more $$$ and hence the extra attention. “Show Me The Money”.</p>
<p>Coffeelover- I totally understand where you are coming from! However, we know several kids who are accepting at CP but are waitlisted at other schools hoping to get in. It is one big Catch 22.</p>
<p>@calcan13: I think there is a lot of truth to the $$ equation. It’s too bad CA. has managed to spend itself into a major financial mess. </p>
<p>The way it works is that by law the K-Community College education system is guaranteed 50% of the CA. general fund. This particular group had a strong arm lobby which put this into place. Therefor, the only education $$ which can be put into play by Sacramento are those for higher education. And, this game gets played on a regular basis. CA just passed a proposition which sends more $$ to higher ed, but it will never be enough.</p>
<p>Couple this with the pressure of all CSU to go to a semester system, regardless of how successful they are currently and it’s just not a pretty view into the future. I really hope that CP can remain the excellent institution that it has become and that CA students will continue to have access to that which their parents paid for</p>
<p>The UC’s are accepting a much higher % of foreign students. They have determined the attrition rate of these students is significantly greater than either CA or OOS. Thus, the UC campus will get the international $$ for some period of time and have a statistically significant chance of the seat opening up before the student graduates. This then makes it easier to take transfer students Junior year. In the end…one big game of poker.</p>
<p>Coffelover and takitallin, I just had this conversation with a counselor friend mentioning that I was gonna let the schools know as early as possible…She said it really didn’t make a difference that until May 1st they are just collecting data and not acting, they have a schedule in place and letting them know early won’t change that schedule. The other Catch22 is that schools send out way more acceptances than they have spaces for. At UCLA for example, they sent out 3200 acceptances for 600 spots, expecting that many people to decline. In this example, the wait list only comes into play after >2600 of the original offers decline/don’t respond, so I don’t think there is a way to speed up the process. Not to be depressing, just don’t want you agonizing everyday between now and May 15th hoping for something that may not be a reality at many schools until then.</p>
<p>calcan I get that you’re disappointed, but there’s too much incorrect information on this thread already.</p>
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<p>California public schools are prohibited from asking for ethnic background, even from out of state students. The application uses a Multi-Criteria Admission format with 4 parts: GPA, test schools, academic rigor, and extra-curricular activity + work.</p>
<p>The dollars coming in from out of state students are barely a drop in the bucket. We’re taking about 450 students matriculating out of 33,000 applications (2011 numbers).</p>
<p>@CADREAMIN Maybe things have changed this year. Our friend got waitlisted 2 years ago and was accepted 2 weeks later (for Biology) I didn’t realize they put 3200 acceptances for 600 spots - yikes!</p>
<p>hey coffeelover - I hope they have changed and things get cranking for the waitlisted kids. Since CP got theirs out ahead of the masses (UCs), hopefully their waitlist will move faster. Good luck to all waitlisted! Would be great to know the stats on WL kids that moved in to a spot in the last couple years. (Oh and I was referring to UCLA for the 3200:600 figure. Didn’t research that for CP.)</p>
<p>At least for CP engineering, the one place that could pull some kids out of dreamy CP is Cal, and I believe they are the last UC to post, their admits aren’t out till March 28th. Some engineering kids have already heard from UCLA, the general post is out the 23rd.</p>