<p>I believe last year location was a factor, but they have since gotten rid of that determinant. I like to think of Cal Poly admission as a crap shoot.</p>
<p>0kay, I see. I was thinking of CSU’s in general.The enrollment management document is dated 1/28/10.</p>
<p>It says</p>
<p>“Admissions management tools—
CSU campuses must accommodate all qualified applicants from their designated local
service area who apply during the priority application period (October 1 through
November 30) and who meet all other requirements and deadlines
• Exempt from this CSU policy are fully impacted campuses (whose every academic program is impacted), which are not required to accommodate local service areas. Currently Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and San Diego State are the
only fully impacted campuses.”</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>“• Two campuses are fully‐impacted, in that ALL of their academic programs
have been declared impacted: San Diego State University, and Cal Poly San
Luis Obispo.
• Fully impacted universities may employ more rigorous admissions criteria to
all undergraduate applicants, regardless of their geographic origin (local area
or beyond).
• These two universities (CPSLO and SDSU) are allowed to use impaction criteria for both LSA and non‐LSA applicant groups because all of their
academic programs are fully impacted and students must be admitted both to the university and to a specific academic major.”</p>
<p>very interesting information</p>
<p>it appears that Cal Poly may be exempt from that service area clause, but I thought I heard that they DID take service area into consideration at a Cal Poly Admissions session last spring…so, who knows?? </p>
<p>I had actually heard 2 years ago that San Diego State was going BACK to using their service area, and they are also listed as a fully impacted school. But, bottom line is that I just simply don’t think there is the population in the service area (SLO) to affect the outcome greatly.</p>
<p>think the whole process was very different this year due to the numbers.</p>
<p>as far as getting admission rates and statistics BY MAJOR, that sure would be interesting and helpful, but from Cal Poly’s perspective they probably don’t want to release the info because then everyone would jump to the easiest major. People have already switched to the AG school in big numbers for that reason - imagine what would happen by major. </p>
<p>unfortunately for us here in California, with the huge population of kids, there just is not enough space at the “desirable” schools - Cal Poly is now harder to get into than UCSB, UC Irvine, Davis. Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD are really really tough. San Diego State is pretty hard to get into, for the caliber of school that it is. And, notice how many parents are on this forum. I think we wanted our daughter to attend Cal Poly almost more than she did - because of cost. Private college, here we come…but, at least she can get classes and graduate in 4 years…</p>
<p>We are just hoping Sonoma State will still have its service area guarantee next year.</p>
<p>Sorry, but we should get over it. it might be a good thing if we did not get accepted to cal poly. it might not be the school for you! i know you guys are disappointed ( i am too, i just got rejected twice by Cal Poly - dream school, but got in Cal Poly Pomona the same day for CE). I don’t want to be mean, but maybe you guys were not for Cal Poly. Maybe for UCB? eh? just saying. i know how it feels to be “denied admission” but move on guys! </p>
<p>Good luck with your future endeavors! and i hope you’ll get into your other colleges!</p>
<p>I think it will be interesting to see how the UCs accept students this year. The CSUs were harder and I expect the UCs will be too. I certainly think that some of the UCs will be easier than Cal Poly in many majors and a good fit for most students. The Ucs are much larger in general and therefore they should be able to accomodate more students. Ccal Poly can only take so many.</p>
<p>For those who did not get in, I hope you get into another school that you would be happy to attend.</p>
<p>“level the playing field” for GPA. What a load of B-freaking- S. Sorry I went to a good school, got a 4.0 and didn’t do up to the standards on ONE TEST, and now I might not get in cause it’s “JUST NOT FAIR!!!” that someone doesn’t go to my school. Lol…pathetic liberalism</p>
<p>CP can shove it. Still no determination, and I’ve been accepted at 4 UCs already. Pretty cool that those schools actually reward you for hard work IN SCHOOL.</p>
<p>^ dude, karbl92! calm down! at least you’ve been accepted to 4 great UCs ( i believe UCD, UCI, UCSB, right?) you should be happy with what you got. i know it sucks but still. maybe the college wasnt right for you… or maybe you were too good for them ? plus, you still have the “no determination”… you should be lucky. i just got rejected two days ago!</p>
<p>karbl, you can’t base admissions decisions on GPA. You likely went to a weak, public high school and got a 4.0, while there are many out there that go to a private HS/rigorous public high school and only get a 3.7. Test scores are a far better way of judging kids for admissions decisions.
Pathetic liberalism? What are you talking about? Obviously you weren’t a government scholar. This system is all about protecting against ridiculous grade inflation that weak, public high schools give.</p>
<p>It’s not your perfomance on only 1 test. Cal Poly doesn’t care how many times you take the SAT or the ACT, and they use only your BEST score. They also use SUPERSCORING which gives you every opportunity to get your highest score possible. While certainly an SAT or ACT test can not tell the whole story, it’s the only objective measure they have.</p>
<p>karbl92, you can say almost anything about my post, but don’t call me a liberal! I’m not from CA, but one only needs to look at your state government to see the train wreck liberal thinking leads to…</p>
<p>It is great that you got a 4.0 at your school. Congratulations. Here is the issue. How do you compare your GPA to my daughters? She goes to a choice shool with a rigerous, 6-year academic program. Every class since 9th grade is honors or AP; no other options. She has a 3.4 GPA and is not in the top 50%. The AP test (score 33) allows her to demonstrate her relative level of academic achievement compared to kids in other schools. Hopefully her score is the payoff for the school choice she made, where she had no chance at getting a 4.0.</p>
<p>“I’m not from CA, but one only needs to look at your state government to see the train wreck liberal thinking leads to.”</p>
<p>Umm… schools that 00S parents are willing to pay for? Sorry…couldn’t resist…</p>
<p>No problem Shrinkwrap, although (in my opinion at least) it wasn’t spending on higher education that got California into the mess its in.</p>
<p>I too got rejected from Poli Sci, with a 1320/1990 and a weighted 3.9. Guhhhh.</p>
<p>“karbl92, you can say almost anything about my post, but don’t call me a liberal! I’m not from CA, but one only needs to look at your state government to see the train wreck liberal thinking leads to…” </p>
<p>Oh, is it political thread time now? Your an excellent example of a civic klutz who spews false information that you gain from Glenn Beck and the likewise. You don’t even live in CA!
I don’t even want to bring up the “train wreck” economics/debt/wars/etc that stem from Reaganomics/conservatism/Bush.</p>
<p>I’m also surprised myself that I got rejected for mechanical engineering. </p>
<p>GPA: 4.25 Weighted (UC scale GPA: 4.27)
Classes: rigorous course (15 honors/ap total from 9-12)
SAT: 1330 (math + reading only)
Class rank: not sure about my ranking but I’m pretty sure I’m top 4% since I’m a qualified ELC student.</p>
<p>blablaboi1 I am surprised that you did not get in to ME. Your GPA is great. What is it unweighted? Your SAT is a little low compared to your GPA. You didn’t take the ACT? They seem to like that test at CP. They even state that it is the preferred test. I am fairly certain (without looking back at posts) that you have higher stats than some students who got in. You must be very frustrated! Congratulations on getting into Irvine for ME. That is a good school as well. I do think it was easier to get into Irvine than Cal Poly this year for some people. You might try calling admissions. It looks like some people have called or had a counselor call and find out what happened. I would!
Best of luck to you in the college that you end up at.</p>
<p>bigxcman, pretty touchy aren’t you. My reply was relevant to the the thread because it was responsive to a comment. It was intended to be funny. I guess the truth hurt a bit too much for you.</p>
<p>blablaboi1 and cameraobscura: You both have every reason to be frustrated. Those are impressive stats which, on their face, would appear to be worthy of any California State University, certainly one that expressly tells its applicants that it utilizes objective admission criteria.</p>
<p>BayAreaMom: Why should Cal Poly refuse to disclose stats by major? Again, this is a public institution. It has no right to withhold information. It should make known that some majors are “less impacted” than others. It almost appears that applicants are being misled about admission criteria.</p>
<p>This is what I mean about not adding up.</p>
<p>I’m going to chip in with a guess toward gender balancing too. My son got in to CPSU Political Science major with :
3.8 weighted
740 critical reading
670 math
660 writing
SAT II-US History 780
World History 740
Biology 680
ACT-32
Reading 36
Math 31
So his stats are similar to twodowns daughter with my son getting the nudge for test scores but her daughter higher GPA. Maybe more girls applied to that major than boys??</p>