Thanks to Eyemgh and Gumbymom for all your help and patience.
Happy to help!
So what are the chances for someone who got deferred in RD then?
I’d like to thank @eyemgh, @Gumbymom, @swimdogmom, @Dadfan, @MLM and others for all your help with this process. You all helped a lot and we really appreciate it! My daughter is so excited to be going to Cal Poly SLO!
We’re all junkies 
Agree ^^^^
@roma1998 I truly hate to be the bearer of bad news and hope this is a help and not a hindrance, but GENERALLY RD is even tougher with far more students applying under that choice as they want to keep all their colleges in play and do not want to commit to CP SLO at this point. Their stats are almost without exception higher. There will be those who are accepted in RD that were not accepted during ED, but they are the exception and not the rule.
I HOPE you have another college you applied to that you would be happy attending - I know of few posters who said they were unhappy where they ended up attending however. 
In my experience here’s the rub that occurs in RD: There will be applicants who are admitted to SLO who are also accepted to other competitive colleges - think UCs, MIT, Harvey- Mudd, even the Ivies and will accept admission at that other college (BTW CP SLO does NOT reject applicants because they have way too high of stats - the “Tufts Syndrome”
- remember this is largely an algorithm run by a computer at Poly.) Nonetheless these admitted applicants take up a “space” of admitted student status despite turning it down. I’m sure you have seen other posts where it discusses the YIELD rate which is far lower than the acceptance rate. What has been happening in recent years is that more CP SLO students have been accepting their admission than projected by CP SLO, therefore the chance of a student deferred from RD and then later accepted becomes quite low.
FWIW, my first kid rejected his acceptance to SLO and is far happier where he ended up!
@Mumstheword2 Welcome aboard and congratulations to your kid! Best way to be thankful is to “pay it forward”
I have a question. My sons portal never said early decision on it, even though he applied early decision. Should it have stated early decision?
@akmom4 it should have said “early decision” if you really did apply ED.
I called the school and they said it didn’t say early decision… so confused
See u over at the SDSU site! That’s our #2 choice.
@Mumstheword2 and @ocgolfdad congratulations to your student and welcome to Cal Poly Parent community! My freshman just finished his 1st quarter in SE — loves it and is doing great. Even got all the courses he needed/wanted for 2nd Quarter despite registering 2nd to last day.
I need some advice. My son applied ED and it states that on his application. When he created his portal it never said ED anywhere. From what I am reading here people say it read ED at some point. Does he call the school to see if it was actually processed ED? thank you
@Dadfan Thanks for the kind words, and your sage advice!
@akmom4 Call the admissions office
Sorry for the delay but I was accepted into Industrial Engineering on the 10th at about 12:30 pm. Looking forward to hopefully meeting some of you as fellow classmates next year!
Stats: Post #80 on page 6.
Wait, so does Cal Poly use self-reported test scores or do you have to send in scores?
I was also deferred for Architecture, by the way. GPA 3.97, ACT Math 28 Reading 27, 11-16 Hours ECs with Leadership, Instate Filipino Female
@malanana, you have to send them.