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Colleges and Universities A-Z Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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<p>I am a white male from California. I will have two varsity letters in soccer, about 100 hours of community service, a bit of work experience through refereeing and will have been enrolled in nine AP classes by the time I graduate. I also am taking my 5th year of Spanish this year. Since eighth grade I’ve taken Spanish I, Spanish II, Spanish III, AP Spanish Language and AP Spanish Literature. I have been told that looks good so I figured I’d add it.
9-12 Academic Unweighted GPA: 3.68
9-12 Academic Weighted GPA: 3.91
10-12 Academic Unweighted GPA: 3.71
10-12 Academic Weighted GPA: 4.04
ACT: 30
Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>What major are you applying too? Cal Poly doesn’t really weight ECs and they look at your grades from grades 9-11 weighted. However, if you are being recruited for soccer, then it is a different story. You have good class rigor and decent ACT scores. You’re GPA may be a little on the low side for engineering or architecture, but you look good for everything else! Also, don’t forget to superscore your SAT and ACT if you can.</p>

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<p>I would want to study Civil engineering but am considering business as well. But according to the CSU application and this website: <a href=“http://collegetools.berkeley.edu/documents/cat_113-128/Calculating_GPA.pdf[/url]”>http://collegetools.berkeley.edu/documents/cat_113-128/Calculating_GPA.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
Cal Poly and the other CSUs and UCs look at 10-11th grade GPA and only count 8 semesters of weighted credit. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Oh and I am not being recruited for soccer.</p>

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<p>Cal Poly calculates GPA from 9-11th grade. </p>

<p>[Freshman</a> Selection Criteria - Admissions - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo](<a href=“http://admissions.calpoly.edu/applicants/freshman/criteria.html]Freshman”>http://admissions.calpoly.edu/applicants/freshman/criteria.html)</p>

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<p>Cal Poly weights your freshman year as well. Civil engineering may be tough with your gpa but if you can bump up your act a couple points it could help a lot.</p>

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<p>Oh wow after a bit more research you guys are right, they do count freshman year. That’s frustrating as my freshman year was definitely my worst. Well I don’t expect to do better than a 30 but a 31 isn’t impossible. From what the page appleteam gave me says I’d say engineering is in between a target and reach. Anyways, thanks for all the help.</p>

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<p>Appleteam, my understanding is that Cal Poly SLO superscores the ACT but not the SAT. Here are my sources:</p>

<p>SAT: <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-score-use-practices-list.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>ACT (I actually got this off of another thread here at CC): [Colleges</a> that superscore the ACT » College Admissions Counseling](<a href=“http://www.collegeadmissionspartners.com/college-testing/colleges-superscore-act/]Colleges”>Colleges that superscore the ACT - BS/MD Admissions by College Admissions Partners)</p>

<p>I’m curious if you’ve got different info…my D will be submitting her ED app some time this weekend!</p>

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<p>From my understanding and experience, they superscore both of them. However, sending in all your scores for every Standardized test taken is a good idea because not only do they superscore, they always consider the highest composite score of the SAT and the ACT. I took both twice and sent all my scores.</p>