Agree with the slow process for SDSU and Cal Poly–all they have to do is plug in the numbers and decide how many people they want in each major. On the other hand, the UCs literally have tens of thousands of applications with essays to sort through (Davis alone averaged over 76k for each of the past 3 years) so it’s a little more understandable.
I wonder if their higher tuition is a problem resulting in fewer applicants? My student has a cal grant that covers about 6000 at a CSU. Tuition at SLO is higher (10,000) so we would pay more for SLO than if they select a UC (12000 in cal grant+blue and gold).
Last year OOS decisions started to to trickle out March 1 - a Friday. I’ve seen this with a few other schools too as late Friday releases likely limit calls as kids/parents absorb it all over the weekend.
Thoughts on a Friday 28th OOS batch of decisions going out? Pure speculation of course.
Does anyone know average MCA score for Marine Science? How many students they take into this major?
@archie2019, check out this link for the info on Marine Science:
@archie2019
I don’t know the MCA, but it looks like they’re expecting 512 applications for 24 seats:
Good Luck!
Same questions as @archie2019 but for Graphic Communication! also so ready to see if OOS starts rolling out in 48 ish hours!!
Anyone have an accepted profile/ MCA for Materials Science/Engineering? Crossing our fingers here in Washington for our son. =)
For those of you looking for profiles of accepted students for specific majors, I think you should search for your specific major in last year’s Final Status thread:
@eastsidemom @jaypearows @archie2019
You can search last years thread Final Status for MCA scores posted by the applicants.
Use the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the discussion, type in the major and all posts with that major will be listed.
24 seats is the target enrollment, correct? So more than 24 students will be accepted because yield is definitely lower than 100% (what’s the avg yield for Calpoly?).
If you review the linked document from CalPoly, it gives some very detailed information about how many applied for each major, are accepted and what the enrollment target is. This info seems to vary per major. The person above was talking about Marine Science, where 512 applied as first time freshmen, 25 were accepted, and the enrollment target was 24. So, for Marine Science, the projected yield was pretty darn high.
The way I read the document, FTF is the number of “incoming freshmen” applicants, so for Marine Science that’s 512. “FTF target” is the enrollment target. I was assuming that “NTR” is transferred students. So in this case, the enrollment target for Marine Science is: 24 freshmen + 1 transfer. Total New UG is the total new undergrads for that quarter, which is 24+1=25.
Since there is no legend explaining what the abbreviations mean, those are just my guess. I could be wrong.
how do you calculate the admit rate for each major again? i forgot to be honest.
Yes, yield varies from year to year and also is highly dependent on which college your major is in. Cal Poly publishes overall yield and yield for each college, but does not publish yield for specific majors. Overall Cal Poly yield rate in 2018 was 26.7% for first-time freshman applicants. Marine Science is in the College of Science and mathematics. Yield in 2018 for that College was 28.1% for first-time freshman applicants.
Overall yield rate:
https://ir.calpoly.edu/2018-admissions-applicants-and-yields
(Click on the vertical bar for the year that you want and select “Yield Rates” from the gray horizontal row at the top of the chart)
Rates for specific colleges:
https://ir.calpoly.edu/https%3A//ir.calpoly.edu/2018-factbook
(Click on the College Profile for the college you are interested in and then select “Admissions Profile - Applicant Yields”)
Thanks for the info. So assuming the target enrollment is 24, and yield is 28%, then SLO would likely offer around 85-87 acceptances to meet that enrollment target?
You’re misinterpreting the Cal Poly worksheet. @Gregmacd was correct when he said that they’re expecting 512 applications for 24 seats in Marine Science. “FTF Apps” and “NTR Apps” are the number of estimated first-time freshman applications and new transfer applications, respectively, that Cal Poly expects to receive for a given major. “FTF Target” and “NTR Target” are its estimated number of first-time freshman and new transfer seats that it will fill. Total New UG is the total number of new undergrad that it is expecting to add, which is simply the number of FTF seats plus the number of NTR seats.
In the case of marine science, Cal Poly was expecting 512 first-time freshman apps for 24 freshman seats, and 32 transfer apps for 1 transfer seat. 25 new undergrads (24+1).
Cal Poly publishes overall yield rate as well as yield rates for the individual colleges. It’s generally around 25-30% yield.
Aha – I believe you are right. I was misinterpreting the second columns as all applying to transfer applicants exclusively.
I agree that that would be the best estimate you could come up with, given that Cal Poly publishes yields by college and not by specific major.
I’ll also note that yield rates have been trending downward, so they might have to accept more applicants to fill those 24 slots.
so decisions last year started rolling out Friday 3/1, do we think that it could be this Friday for decisions or maybe next week?