<p>I did not apply for Early Decision to Cal Poly,</p>
<p>But i received an email on Dec 3 saying “Congratulations”
and that I need to accept/decline this offer to a link that will appear 24-48 hrs.</p>
<p>Does this mean I got accepted? What does the accept/decline mean?</p>
<p>I called the Admissions Office, and they said it should appear on Wednesday.</p>
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Thanks so much, I’m new here, and I’m very excited and confused, and do not want to be let down.</p>
<p>If you don’t think you applied ED than either a) You did apply ED by accident or b) the Admissions office has screwed up. </p>
<p>The most important question is whether you want to accept. If so, wait for the button. If not, you need to call admissions immediately because your ED application may limit your other options for going to college. </p>
<p>Also, all admissions offers from Cal Poly are conditional. You need to take the senior year classes you listed in the application and keep you GPA close to your pre-senior year average. If you don’t meet those conditions you are not admitted. Last year, some students did lose their admissions after letting their GPAs drop or by getting a D.</p>
<p>I found out conditional and early decision may be different?
here is the link
[Transcripts</a> -Admissions- Cal Poly](<a href=“http://www.ess.calpoly.edu/_admiss/undergrad/prospective_transcripts.html]Transcripts”>http://www.ess.calpoly.edu/_admiss/undergrad/prospective_transcripts.html)</p>
<p>quote: “*Applicants admitted to Fall Quarter through ‘Regular Decision’ must indicate if they accept or decline our offer of conditional admission through MyCalPoly’s Self-Service Channel on the Accept/Decline link by May 1, 2011. ‘Early Decision’ admits must accept/decline by January 15, 2011.”</p>
<p>I’m really nervous, I don’t remember If I clicked the Early Decision box by accident!!
I would not mind going to Cal Poly, as it is a great school. But I would like to see if I can get into UC Davis as well for Biomedical.</p>
<p>I believe that an Early Decision application is determined by the date you applied. If you applied before Between Oct 1 and Oct 31, then I believe by default you have applied for early decision.</p>
<p>Can anyone concur?</p>
<p>Conditional acceptance just means that you need to graduate from high school with the senior-year courses that you had entered into CSU Mentor when you applied, with grades no less than Cs. Cal Poly can’t really give you an unconditional acceptance if you haven’t already graduated from high school. So when you send in your final transcript next June, that condition will be removed and you can matriculate.</p>
<p>Some CSUs have rolling admission where you get notified fairly early, but this seems way early for Regular Decision notifications.</p>
<p>You can apply for both ED and RD from Oct 1 to Oct 31. There’s no default date for ED application. You have to explicitly select the ED application on CSU Mentor in order to put in an ED application.</p>
<p>OK… applied to 4 CSU’s. Only Cal Poly had the Early Decision indicator question. The others do not. I just learned something… * smile *</p>
<p>I got the “Conditional Acceptance” as well but I am confused as to what they mean by “maintaining your reported overall grade point average.” What GPA is this? Is it your overall high school GPA or your senior year GPA? Do they count your senior year classes as weighted?</p>
<p>uberearthy, there does not appear to be any published definition. It seems as if the guidelines are:
<p>i thought u just couldn’t drop it more than .5?</p>
<p>surfbluff, If that is that written down somewhere it would be great but I don’t think Cal Poly publishes it. I know a .2 drop is safe (from daughter’s experience last year). I can’t say beyond that. Anyone else from last year have any data points?</p>
<p>I also heard that you were fine as long as your GPA did not drop by more than .5 (and you got no d’s and did not drop any classes). I emailed Cal Poly, though, just because I want to hear what they say.</p>