@smithem2 last year admissions targeted about 70 spots for 1800+ incoming freshman applications for BMED which is about a 4% enrollment rate (10-12% acceptance). It is one of the most competitive majors offered.
Here’s the link to Cal Poly Projections - http://www.ir.calpoly.edu/content/publications_reports/targets/index
From there you can find links to the year in question to see that year’s enrollment rate targets per school per major.
For 2016/17 under CENG you can see that Biomedical Eng had target of 76 spots out of 1821 applicants.
It looks like the most recent year gets added every March or so.
What are my chances of getting into CalPoly if I applied under the major: animal science, got a 1210 on new SAT, 27 ACT, volunteered at animal hospital, top 7% of my class, and 4.57 weighted GPA
Thank you for the information! Yikes those numbers are not on my side!!
@BiancaBurkhart you have a pretty good chance depending on the way that your test scores super score. To figure this out, take your new SAT and use a converter to turn it into an ACT score. Then, take the best ACT (or converted ACT) score for math, and the best one for english, add them up, then divide by 2. Great GPA though. Also, the thing that sucks about Cal Poly’s application is that those enriching volunteer hours at the animal hospital don’t have a proper way to display themselves since CP’s app is so linear and algorithmic.
I am scared about this brother HH
Is anyone hearing anything? Was so hoping today would be the day the portals would start to update with decisions.
Okay thank you so much!! Hope to hear back soon!! @Dankiel
No changes noted here - no email and “No determination made at this time” portal message remains.
Nothing heard yet @Lynn121936
@Banker1 On the spreadsheet, what is FTF and NTR? I’m assuming it’s freshmen and transfers. And I’m assuming the numbers only reflect the final number enrolled, not the accepted rate which is probably much higher.
@jjmama your understanding matches mine on all counts. First/full time freshmen (FTF) are incoming freshman class and NTR are the transfers. There is a user here - gumbymom who first showed us the targets for 2016/17 and she approximates the acceptance rate as being 3X the enrollment rate. Only the target enrollment counts are shown. So the 3X multiplier is probably the easiest way to arrive at an acceptance rate. It might be less or more depending on yield.
@jjmama They do tell you the accepted rate if you can do some math. The numbers on the lower spreadsheets.
A: “NTR FTF Apps” Number of applicants in that major.
B: “FTF Apps Apps Target” The total number of students they are hoping to enroll the following year.
C: “Total Cont. Total UG” The number they will accept the year.
For the accepted rate… Take (C/D)*100
Follow it to the right to see what the previous year looked like.
@curiositycat333 no I don’t think you have the data to calculate it. The Cont I assume means continuing vs new students. I don’t think there is anything on there that refers to accepted and yield.
@curiositycat333 thanks for adding to discussion. For your accepted rate equation are you saying to take
C/A * 100? I haven’t gone back to look at the projections based on your new information.
OOS, nothing posted yet. For COSM though, so might not hear back till later than some. Posted stats on page 1 of this thread.
For the SLO projections: These are estimates of the acceptance rate for each year.
Take FTF Target # multiply by 3 (since they accept around 3x as many applicants than actually enroll). Divide by the FTF apps and multiply by 100 to get an expected acceptance rate. This is not a concrete acceptance rate since more or less applicants may apply and enroll but it gives you a general idea.
@Banker1 @curiositycat333 For the CSM, the freshman target/the freshman application averages at 6%, but it varies between 3.4% and 17.6%. So if I tripled that rate, assuming a 33% yield, the acceptance rate would be 18%. However if you google the class profile the acceptance rate for the College of Science & Math, is 29%. So at least for math science, a good approximation would be to multiply the target by 5, in other words the yield rate is 20%. So if my calculations are right, the acceptance rates are MUCH higher than the target/apps. Good news!
nothing yet for ag, envir and food science major
@jjmama: SLO admits by major not College so using CSM’s data as whole still not give you a valid acceptance rate. I have found the SLO target projections using the FTF target #'s x3 divided by FTF apps x100 slightly more accurate but again, these are projections. SLO may receive more or less apps than the project # so the FTF targets and acceptance rates may change. These #'s are only guidelines.