so many qualified students will probably get rejected because of something so simple and it sucks. i checked my application and somehow I had my middle school grades entered in, no too sure how i remembered to do that because I never would have thought to enter middle school grades. still haven’t heard back though, so who knows if it even made a difference
for my school, around 9-13 students have been accepted each year to cal poly. my naviance hasn’t updated results for 2017 yet, but because i go to a small school i basically know the amount of girls accepted that have told me and i can name at least 9 right of the bat, which would fit the average. so in terms of hoping for more acceptances based on checking your naviance results, i feel like that’s just because students haven’t self-entered that they’ve been accepted yet (as people have said)
Knowing that you need 10 semesters of math for the max bonus, it was equally confusing having 2 semesters of college math taken at the HS, but not on the HS transcript. It worked out, but I wasn’t fully confident that the courses in the college section would make their way over into the math section during review. On the UC app, I believe you put them in the same section as the HS courses and a dropdown let’s you select that the course level is college.
@calirain I didn’t catch it either. Having to put in 8th grade Math seems silly to me. Take our sons for example, they are both taking AP Calculus in Sr year, isn’t it obvious that they have completed Algebra 1 in middle school? Argh. I may just let it go since SLO is not his top choice anyway and he has narrowed down his choices to 2 Non-CA schools that have offered him merit/athletic scholarships. Good luck to your son and keep us posted!
This does not skew in favor of parental oversight. It skews in favor of those who carefully read the application. To suggest that parental hovering is the only way to get this right is to marginalize all of the students who, with no parental help (mine included), get it right, year in and year out.
@VickiSoCal my DS missed out on Spanish extra points too. He is taking Spanish AP Literature 5 but has been taking Spanish since 5th grade.
This oversight could have happened to anyone’s child. The application is a problem…
Just accepted into Aerospace engineering!
@eyemgh a skew is statistical, not absolute. Of course some kids read the application carefully and get it right. And no doubt some parents “help” and get it wrong. But statistically speaking, the more adult support and error-checking kids get, the less likely they are to make these errors (which admissions will not correct after the fact, even if the applicant realizes their mistake). I don’t think it reflects a commitment to fairness, on the part of admissions, to persist in structuring the application in a way that invites data entry errors that can tank the applicant’s chances of admission.
I’m not being a sore loser here. My kid got in. But if a slightly better-qualified kid should have gotten that spot, but didn’t because of this mistake… IMHO, the correct way to fill out the app wasn’t so obvious that I can feel okay about that. It would be so easy for the application and instructions to be clearer. This isn’t an aptitude test for civil servants who are going to fill out confusing forms for a living - why trip people up when you don’t have to?
@momzof3 the max points for foreign language is 8 semesters so as long as he has eight semesters in high school he already has it without middle school.
just checked my cal poly application to find that I listed algebra 1 for eighth grade (I took it in 7th grade) and left out geometry (I took it in 8th grade), which is a requirement. sucks that it happened, but at least my #1 school requires transcripts to be sent before the application is evaluated. hopefully, next year applicants can learn from this.
So sorry 22cbwill feel you pain.
Congrats @mitstate ! And good to hear acceptances are still rolling out!
wow, amazing to hear acceptances are still going out
Great response @aquapt
@mitstate Congrats!!! Have you checked before today or was today your first time looking at the portal?
@mitstate thanks for posting, your keeping dreams alive w/ those words.
@mitstate Congrats on the acceptance! Any chance you could share stats? Also in-state or out of state?
@curiositycat333 Huh? I’m not understanding your response to my post. I wasn’t looking at Scattergrams for any data related to test scores or grades or courses taken or MCA points. I was simply looking at Naviance to see how many kiddos from her high school indicated that they had been accepted to CP so far. Then since I was logged in, I took at look at how many of her high school mates had been accepted to other colleges. As others have mentioned, students at our high school self-report this data and it looks like a number of students won’t do any updating at all until the UC acceptances come in.
I saw a couple of posts asking how to log in to Naviance–my login was provided by the school (it may actually have come from the district) when my oldest started high school.
I was simply stating that it’s hard to use Naviance the way I do with other school to predict if my kid would get in given his GPA/SAT scores. Since the scores are all over the map.
Our students self report the scores. And don’t usually report them until May, when the school basically bribes them to do it. So it’s only really good looking at how many applied last year & what the GPA/Test Scores looked like.
Oddly Naviance has labeled my son as in at Cal Poly. When he hasn’t heard. I think it’s a glitch because he does have an acceptance at another Cal State. I honestly have no idea where it got that data. personally I would’t trust it’s data how many have been accepted this year.