@eyemgh All of those are true, aha. And thank you! 
@eyemgh I’m a transfer student and I calculated my MCA to be around 4300.
i have 3.43 GPA
I have completed all required and desired courses
Finished my last general Ed course this semester
And have maximum points for extra curriculars
Does this seem about right? I’m a psych major btw
@dabay77m, transfers use a different algorithm and I don’t have it. Sorry.
how do you calculate your mca?
@dabay77m, you can find more information on the transfer application process and how they use the MCA by reading through last year’s transfer thread - it’s called OFFICIAL CAL POLY SLO 2014-2015 TRANSFER DECISIONS
@cam1998 search “confused about MCA” and there is a thread about it and it explains it very well.
Cal Poly ACT/SAT Concordance Chart
ACT CR M
36 800 800
35 770 790
34 760 780
33 750 760
32 720 730
31 700 700
30 680 680
29 650 660
28 630 640
27 610 620
26 590 600
25 570 580
24 550 560
23 540 540
22 520 520
21 500 500
20 490 480
19 470 460
18 450 440
17 440 410
16 420 390
15 400 360
14 380 330
13 360 300
12 330 280
11 300 260
question: when you look at this chart is the ACT your composite score ? or just the math/ english?
@cam1998 Using your English ACT score, read over and get your equivalent SAT CR score. Then do the same for Math.
okay, can you calculate my mca?
if you take grades after 9th.
18 A’s
1 B
9th -11th
20 A’s
3 B’s
Act Comp. 28th Eng. 25, Math 25
4 yr math
4 yr english
4 yrs science
4 language
2 semesters visual arts
leadership yes
work hours 6-10
thanks
am I missing something?
@cam1998 did you take any ap/honors classes?
@cam1998, look at posts #2 and #7. If you’re ready to go to college, you’re ready to calculate your own MCA score. 
Here it is, all in one place:
Academic MCA:
The maximum GPA they will use is 4.2, even though you can have a higher calculated CP GPA. A 4.2 is worth 2250 MCA points. Thus, multiply your CP GPA by 535.7 and you’ll get your MCA points for GPA.
The next biggest thing is test scores. The odd thing, likely because they wanted it to total a nice round number, is that the max score is 1650, even though the max SAT score is 1600. Multiply the total of your best SAT CR and your best SAT math by 1.03125 to get your MCA test points. If you took the ACT, they convert and vice versa.
The third largest section is the class rigor score, worth 750 points. In this section you get zero points for meeting the minimum admission requirements and adders for more than the minimum. The bonuses in order of power are (min semesters/max total semesters/bonus per extra semester/total possible bonus): math 6/10/125/500 (note: stats and finite do not count), lab science 4/8/50/200, English 8/10/50/100, foreign language 4/8/25/100, visual performance 2/4/25/50, no bonus points for social sciences or electives. As with GPA, you can actually score higher than the maximum, but 750 is the most they will count.
Finally, work and ECs, worth 350 points. Work (hours per week/bonus): 0/0, 1-5/20, 6-10/40, 11-15/60, 16-20/80, 21+/100, add 50 points if work is major related. ECs (hours per week/bonus): 0/0, 1-5/30, 6-10/60, 11-15/90, 16-20/120, 21+/150, add 60 points for leadership role.
There are also other Non-Academic Bonus Points:
CA vet/701, Hayden Partner School/700, faculty/staff dependent/700, service area of CP/500, either parent with some or no HS, but who DIDN’T GRADUATE FROM HS/300 (per parent).
Lastly,
Cal Poly ACT/SAT Concordance Chart in case you took ACT (use only Math and English and figure out the two equivalent SAT scores)
ACT CR M
36 800 800
35 770 790
34 760 780
33 750 760
32 720 730
31 700 700
30 680 680
29 650 660
28 630 640
27 610 620
26 590 600
25 570 580
24 550 560
23 540 540
22 520 520
21 500 500
20 490 480
19 470 460
18 450 440
17 440 410
16 420 390
15 400 360
14 380 330
13 360 300
12 330 280
11 300 260
Here’s how it works. Cal Poly does TWO “READINGS” one of academic only and one after adding additional non-academic bonus adders. The reason I put readings in quotes is that they don’t actually READ them. A computer tallies points and then ranks students.
The first “reading” is used to fill approximately 65% of the class. Presumably that is all of ED plus the first half or so of RD.
Then they add the other non-academic bonus points and re-rank MCAs to fill the final half of RD, approximately 35% of the class.
Where can one get competitive MCA numbers for each major? Thanks.
You can’t. We are trying to develop that on the status, MCA, major thread, but it’s still too early and there are lots of majors without even a single data point.
@eyemgh thank you so much for all of your insight and patience with us trying to calculate an accurate MCA score!
This may be a dumb question, but for Lab Science Bonus points–Are these bonus point just for the courses you have completed at the time of application 9-11 grades (not projecting courses in progress senior year?)
Also, I’m assuming that Sports Med counts?–it is listed as a lab science, under Area G courses.
Bio=0
H Chem=0
Sports Med (ROP “G” course)Jr year=100
H Anatomy/Physiology Senior year =?
Adv Sports Med (ROP “G” course)Senior year =?
You count your senior courses in your rigor section. They of course won’t calculate into your GPA though. Good luck!
Would Cal Poly SLO superscore your ACT Math and CR to get your highest possible ACT score?
Also, does Cal Poly look at SAT or ACT scores more, because my ACT scores are better then SAT scores and give me a higher MCA score
@ChinoBoi1998 for ACT they use math and english scores. They do not weight one of the tests over the other, but they superscore from both. For example if your ACT math is better than your SAT math, but your SAT english is better, they will take ACT math and SAT english.