Cal Poly has record number of applicants in 2014

<p>Cal Poly recorded its largest applicant pool in university history for Fall 2014, with nearly 44,000 freshman applications received and 8,000 transfer applications. </p>

<p>Approximately 5,600 enrollment spaces are going to be available for new students.</p>

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<p>Grateful that our D has been accepted ED. Think incoming freshmen can expect triples in dorms as a real possibility until the campus accommodates this planned student body growth. Glad to see they are looking at revamping the class registration system. Interesting and learning times ahead for the incoming class - ‘living and learning’ in a different way!</p>

<p>Grateful that my D has already told me “Mom, I’m low maintenance. A triple is fine”. Right there is 1K off what’s already a great deal of an education, in my opinion! </p>

<p>44K with 5.6K accepted…means a 13% acceptance rate this year–really? Feeling very, very, fortunate indeed.</p>

<p>Colleges always accept far more students than choose to attend, so the acceptance rate will be much higher than 13%. </p>

<p>The most recent Cal Poly SLO Common Data Set information I can find (from 2012-2013) shows that year 11,545 students were admitted (out of 36,941 applications), so that year 31.2% were accepted. </p>

<p>5,752 men were admitted, 2,024 enrolled.
5,793 women were admitted, 1,662 enrolled
2,555 were placed on waitlist and 1,064 waitlisted students were admitted.</p>

<p>I hope I have those numbers correct. You can find the Common Data Set by doing a search for “Cal Poly SLO Common Data Set”</p>

<p>^ The 2013-14 Cal Poly SLO Common Data Set was released a few weeks ago and shows that 13,953 out of 40,402 applicants were admitted for the Fall 2013 term, an acceptance rate of 34.5%.</p>

<p>21,903 men applied; 6,803 were admitted (31.1%); 2,554 enrolled (37.5% of admitted).</p>

<p>18,499 women applied; 7,150 were admitted (38.7%); 2,309 enrolled (32.3% of admitted).</p>

<p>1,603 were offered a place on the waitlist; it’s not indicated how many actually accepted a place on the waitlist; and 15 waitlisted students were admitted.</p>

<p><a href=“IR Home - Institutional Research - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo”>IR Home - Institutional Research - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo;

<p>Ah yes, I forgot there for a minute that the 5K number was the number of freshman they expect to enroll, not the number they admitted. Still feel lucky.</p>

<p>luckymom,
I agree wholeheartedly – I feel lucky AND blessed. I have one graduating from Poly in June and one starting in September (Architecture). Imho admission rates are not that important – anyone considering Poly should look at its stellar after-graduation employment rates as well as the amazingly low student debt stats. </p>

<p>Go Mustangs!</p>

<p>definitely makes me feel great about applying ED!</p>

<p>Interesting, applicants increased by 8.9%.
US births are constant between 1995 and 1996, so people are probably increasing the number of schools they apply to, which means the enrollment rate will probably be lower.
Target enrollment increased by 15.2%. I am excluding waitlist.
So, it should be 5.8% easier to get in (1.152 / 1.089 = 1.058) this year.
Seems encouraging.</p>

<p>is this a bad thing or good thing?</p>

<p>@trakarclay
how did you come up 5.8% ?
I hope you’re correct</p>

<p>@RoysGoin2College
Here is my math
(1.152 / 1.089 = 1.058) </p>

<p>There are 15% more freshmen positions and 9% more applicants. Using last year as a base of 100% we get a new index by dividing 115% by 109% or ~6% easier to get in. It is tempting to subtract, which looks close when the numbers are close, but it will be way off if the numbers are far apart: like 190% and 120% or 58% easier, not 70%. </p>

<p>BTW, I was an English major at UCLA back in the day. </p>

<p>How hard would it be to get into Graphic communication program?
I can’t find specific stats for that major, only for the liberal arts college.</p>

<p>In Liberal Arts 39% of applicants were admitted last year vs. 34.5% for CPSLO overall.
I have not seen any aggregated information on the majors within that college at CPSLO.
Have you looked at these?.
<a href=“http://ipa.calpoly.edu/sites/ipa/files/publications_reports/infobrief/ib13adfl.pdf”>IR Home - Institutional Research - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo;
<a href=“http://www.calstate.edu/sas/documents/impactedprogramsmatrix.pdf”>http://www.calstate.edu/sas/documents/impactedprogramsmatrix.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This topline data can be misleading because it is admitted and not attending data. The most qualified admitees have and take other options.</p>

<p><a href=“Cal Poly Admissions”>Cal Poly Admissions;
<a href=“http://ipa.calpoly.edu/sites/ipa/files/publications_reports/infobrief/ib13adfl.pdf”>http://ipa.calpoly.edu/sites/ipa/files/publications_reports/infobrief/ib13adfl.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The SATs of admitted students are 6.5% higher than attending students.</p>

<p>Sorry, my numbers were wrong. 5,600 includes transfers, so the numbers look more competitive this year than last.</p>