<p>I see many of you are wondering when Cal Poly Pomona starts sending out acceptance letters, so I guess I’ll just answer this one right off the bat. I officially received my acceptance letter via e-mail on January 20th. However, I found out about my acceptance by looking at the Cal Poly Pomona portal (BroncoDirect) a couple of weeks before I actually got the e-mail. If it says “Provisional Admit” for your application status, then that means you’ve been admitted! I can’t give anyone a solid answer, but I can guarantee acceptances to be handed out starting next week if they haven’t begun it already.</p>
<p>Anyways, this is what I’m really here for! I’m currently on week two of my month long winter break, and I’ve just finished fall quarter! I am a first year architecture major in the College of Environmental Design, and I also live on campus. Feel free to ask me questions (and they don’t have to pertain to my major or college) and I will try to answer them! You can ask about schoolwork, campus life, transportation, the campus, etc!</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA 3.3
Weighted GPA 3.9
AP Classes: 8 - Sophomore (1), Junior (4) Senior (3)
SAT: 1880 (Superscore) - 720 Math - 580 Critical Reading - 580 writing
Class Rank: Top 11%
Sports: Cross Country (3 years) - 2 years Varsity (Our school was new so for the first year, we didn’t have a varsity team) - 2 MVP
Track and Field (1 year) - nothing significant
Community Service: About 100 hours</p>
<p>how is the city of pomona in general? traffic wise? theres a high chance I might be living in orange county so I want to know how bad is the traffic on the major freeways by the school. thank you for your input!</p>
<p>Compsciguy91, the city of Pomona doesn’t have too much going on. The downtown area is still developing, and I wouldn’t consider it a hot spot. It’s also not too safe of a place to be at when past after hours. Pomona is a great city, and although it sounds like I’m putting it down, the previously mentioned seem to be the case for a lot of cities. There are good areas (West Pomona) and not so good areas (East Pomona). I would also like to add that Pomona hosts an art walk twice a month. Like I said, Pomona is still developing, and there’s great potential in this city. </p>
<p>Traffic wise, you should be fine if you’re living in Orange County. In the morning rush hours, traffic heads south and west, towards LA. You’ll be heading north on the 57, so you won’t have traffic to worry about. And the same with the afternoon traffic, it will be going in the opposite direction as you. However, if you have evening classes, you might want to watch out for that afternoon rush when going north up the 57.</p>
<p>Jazzcuzi, why don’t you come over to the school on a school day and have a look?</p>
<p>Cal Poly Pomona is approximately 25% Asian and 10% Caucasian.</p>
<p>I hear about parties often, but they’re mostly off campus frat parties. The policies striking down drinking and cannabis at the school are strict, so don’t expect to easily party every night. Oh, and I hear things also go on in the suites.</p>
<p>Lakersince95, Encinitas is always the top choice residence hall. The building features brick walls, and a large commons area along with a small, but workable kitchen. It’s the closest building to the dining hall, and it’s right in the center of all the residence halls. </p>
<p>Next, is either Cedritos or Montecito. Cedritos is the second closest to the dining halls, and has a shuttle stop right outside. However, Cedritos is one of the later residential developments, and the cons of living here is having a smaller commons area and an awkwardly shaped room (five walls). Montecito, on the other hand, is exactly the same as Encinitas, but with the floorplan flipped.</p>
<p>I’m a senior who’s applied to Pomona, I’ve slept over at the suites before and got a tour from my bother. I do like the school overall, I’m excited about the new rec center being built and I feel a person just needs to get used to the campus.</p>
<p>However I wanted to know how the Hispanic and Latino population is at the school. Friendly and cool people? Good looking girls? </p>
<p>I applied for mechanical engineering, so can you tell me how the first year could go? Work load and just anything I should know ,thank you</p>
<p>Franco101,
I checked my bronco direct account recently and it went from Complete to incomplete(yellow triangle) but there was a to do item added “Entry level math required” Due 5/4/2013. </p>
<p>I am a FTF in the local area. I have already scheduled my test ,but does that mean I will not get their decision until I take ELM exam ? My GPA is 3.7 and a 960/1600 sat</p>
<p>Accepted at Fullerton , But hopeful for CPP</p>
<p>As far as hispanic/latino girls go I’ve noticed there are plenty of them and maybe only a fourth are good looking. That being said, I’m more attracted to white women and there are plenty of good looking white girls on campus. Most of the Asian girls are decent looking but it’s not my type. They tend to wear overly large glasses. I don’t know if you find that attractive. </p>
<p>I don’t know a lot of people but in my experience a majority of people on campus that I’ve met are friendly and helpful. I met a guy who moved here from Iran as a refugee and works 2-3 jobs while he takes engineering classes. Studies hard but still manages to squeak out a social life and a girlfriend. Inspired me, anyway. You’ll meet some interesting characters.</p>
<p>If anyone uses the 10, it is terrible between 3-8. Get to the on ramp and you’re in traffic before you’re even off it. After that, it’s a decent ride home. </p>
<p>I haven’t explored Pomona too much, but I did go to a concert at The Glasshouse downtown. It’s worth checking out. I enjoyed it. It’s a nice area. Claremont is a pretty nice, safe place. Ontario has a big mall and has an airport should you need one.</p>
<p>Hopefulgrl2013, congrats on the acceptance to CSU Fullerton!</p>
<p>There’s absolutely nothing to worry about with the Entry Level Math notification. Unless you’re exempt from taking it, every first time applicant must take this test, along with the EPT (English Placement Test).</p>
<p>This is from the link: “All entering CSU undergraduates admitted to a CSU campus are required, unless exempt, to take the Entry Level Math Test (ELM).” According to that and the fact that they’re asking you to take the ELM, you’ve been accepted to Cal Poly Pomona!</p>
<p>Dimas1227, CalDud did a good job at answering the first part of your question, so if you haven’t read his response yet, please do. From my experience, I will have to say that I have yet to have had a single bad experience with anyone who’s of Hispanic or Latino descent. The same goes towards mostly everyone here. If you make an effort to be friendly and welcoming, you will surely get that back. Yes, haha. There are lots of beautiful people at this school.</p>
<p>As for your second question, I cannot answer that directly. My friend who is also a first year is studying aerospace engineering has had projects where he’s had to put together and tinker with a model airplane to make it fly the way he wants it to. I also see first year civil engineering majors working on miniature makeshift bridges. Just expect a lot of hands on activities early on in the year, starting first quarter. Since mechanical engineering is a engineering major, also expect a lot of math and sciences. If you’re on top of your assignments, and you use time wisely, then you will be fine.</p>