Calpoly??

Applying to College
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<p>Anyone trying calpoly?? They're so new and supposed to be the ''RIT on the west coast". Heard a lot of good stuff about it. I might try physics or something there...:p</p>

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<p>Are you talking about Cal Poly San Luis Obispo?</p>

<p>Cal Poly SLO is a great school in Engineering, Architecture and Business. They rather give students hands on experience rather than theory in their classes.</p>

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<p>Is it considered a hard school to get into? And is it private or public</p>

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<p>Yea its pretty new but still hard to get into. And i've heard they're kinda stingy on money</p>

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<p>Cal Poly SLO is a public university in san luis obispo. It was made part of the the CSU in the 1940's i believe. Admission is rather competitive, with averages around 3.8-3.9 and 1250.</p>

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<p>ha i dono about 3.8-3.9...i'm at a 3.4-3.5 :p but my SATs were 1370.. I didnt know it was that old btw.. !</p>

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<p>From CalPoly's website:</p>

<p>Admitted first-time freshmen students' average high school GPA: 3.73 (Fall 2005)
Admitted first-time freshmen students' average SAT I score: 1204 (Fall 2005)</p>

<p>From the college of Engineering page:
"Freshman applicants compete to be selected only against other freshman applicants applying for the same major through a point-based evaluation of four academic categories and one non-academic category."</p>

<p>At a number of schools, the admissions criteria for engineering is higher than for the humanities and many other majors. I assume Cal Poly would follow this paradigm but I don't know for certain.</p>

<p>CalPoly-SLO has a good reputation in engineering.</p>

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<p>Perhaps those are just the students attending? To get into the school the stats are a bit higher. 1280, in fact, is the SAT average for engineering.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ess.calpoly.edu/_admiss/Pdf/Profile06.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ess.calpoly.edu/_admiss/Pdf/Profile06.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>PS- I'm sure those are weighted gpa's</p>

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<p>Please don't come to Cal Poly for business unless you're going to take school seriously...</p>

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<p>Cal Poly is a good school in a great location that is competitive with the mid-tier UCs.</p>

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<p>Does any one know about transfering there? I think my stats are high enough...but I don't know about how they are with transfers...</p>