<p>I have heard of some students who didn’t get accepted with a 2000+ while others did with around 1700-1900 in engineering. Could gender/ethnicity play a factor in this?</p>
<p>It could be a variety of things.
Like whether or not they applied for Early Decision or not. And perhaps their GPA wasn’t as high. If they weren’t ED, and their scores were 2000+, well… I’ve heard that CP likes sure things. If they weren’t ED and had those scores, I would assume that Cal Poly thought that they were their backup to UCB for Engineering.</p>
<p>Even though I doubt it, race may play a small factor, but I think Cal Poly just lets the best students in (with certain exceptions like I said in regards to ED).</p>
<p>I’m just throwing some guesses out there. I highly doubt race plays a factor. As for gender, well, it’s been shown that more males apply for Engineering/Architecture than females, and that would explain why CP is roughly 56% males, 44% females.</p>
<p>I’ve got my own question that applys to this one…will they do anything special for native american ethnicity?? im just curious.</p>
<p>California’s Constitution prohibits preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in public college admissions (UCs, CSUs and community colleges). Voters approved the prohibition in 1996 as Proposition 209, and the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the law to stand.</p>
<p>There’s a law waiting Gov Brown’s signature, SB 185, which would allow race to be considered in admissions as long as no preference was given to any race. This is not the law right now, however.</p>
<p>In response to the original post: GPA tends to be a little more important than SAT in the admissions process. 100-200 SAT points higher will probably NOT make up the distance of being something like .2 lower in GPA. Also keep in mind that on the SAT, only math and reading are looked at, so its out of 1600 not 2400, so some of those that got rejected could have had good writing scores.</p>