<p>I got rejected today too. I was embarrassed. First rejection yet, I got into all the top UCs too. Leirbag101 I know how u feel....4.02.....2100 on SAT You have not been selected for admission to Cal Poly. And to think it was a safety school! I didnt apply under an impacted major either. Oh well I didnt want to go there anyways. If you havent heard from them yet most likely you have been rejected...thats how it went for the ppl that applied at my school at least!</p>
<p>ohh...and how about ppl that got into cal poly but not sdsu from my school....strange..</p>
<p>this is weird...i cant login anymore...they deleted my account i think..LOL</p>
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<p>All majors at cal poly are impacted. Admissions is around 44%. Thats harder than all the UC's excluding UCSD, Berkeley, and UCLA. Unless Stanford, or the mentioned UCs are your Main choice, Cal Poly defininitely is not a backup school.</p>
<p>All majors at cal poly are impacted. Admissions is around 44%. Thats harder than all the UC's excluding UCSD, Berkeley, and UCLA. Unless Stanford, or the mentioned UCs are your Main choice, Cal Poly defininitely is not a backup school.</p>
<p>Yes i know that. But i did get into all those schools you have just listed except Stanford (didnt apply) That is why I was so shocked when i was rejected. All the kids at my school that get in have less than a 3.5 GPA so I was under the impression that it was easy to get into besides architecture and engineering.</p>
<p>"All the kids at my school that get in have less than a 3.5 GPA so I was under the impression that it was easy to get into besides architecture and engineering."</p>
<p>that's a damn lie. i'm not neccessarily calling you a liar, but if your friends told you this, then theyre either mistaken with pomona or they're lying. unless they have a perfect sat score, or theyre getting recruited for a sport, there is no way in hell will they get in to even agriculture with less than a 3.5.</p>
<p>Julie,</p>
<p>I looked up the stats for those from my son's school applying to Cal Poly. Over the past five years, 13 of 25 students were accepted and the average GPA was only 3.22...even though this is unweighted, it seems to me entirely possible (probable?) that these admittees by and large had less than a 3.5 weighted GPA, as the school does not offer many honors or ap classes.</p>
<p>Also, a student at another local school was recently accepted with a less-than-3.5 weighted gpa; his advisor mentioned a couple of "sleeper" majors that were much less competitive than others. He apparently applied to one of these less coveted majors and it worked for him.</p>
<p>According to CPSLO; Agriculture is the easiest major to get into.</p>
<p>For class of 2005:
College of Agriculture
Applied: 2,106
Selected: 1,308
Avg of those selected: 3.61 gpa; 1157 old SAT
Avg of those enrolled: 3.55; 1137 old SAT</p>
<p>Note: Switching majors from agriculture to engineering is made difficult, because of the fact people do attempt it and the university knows it.</p>
<p>It may be possible that a person with a 3.5 gpa was accepted to Cal Poly, after all the average was made with students with gpa's much lower than 3.5 and students much higher than 3.5 making the average 3.5.</p>
<p>However, expect our class of 2006, to have a higher GPA average. The trend always goes up, and there are alot of indicators that our class is more competitive than class of 2005 as a whole.</p>
<p>Yes there can be students admitted with gpa's with less than 3.5 but not by much. It has to be countered some other way, such as a high SAT or a ton of EC's related to the major. Other factors include your geographical area. Applicants in the SLO area do get special consideration.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, let's say you have 7 classes. In all 7 classes you have an A, but only one of those classes is an AP course. Your GPA is still 4.14 or 4.0 unweighted. I find it funny how people think you need 5 out of 7 courses to be AP/Honors to get an A. Those successful usually chose a select amount of AP/Honors they know theyll get A's in. Result? They get A's in their APs and A's in their regular courses and end up with a very high over 4.0 GPA. Other pathetic (I want to be overachieving but stress myself too much with too much AP courses I cannot handle) students, overload with AP, and get B's and C's with a few A's in them, finding comfort in their weighted gpa but most of the time land short of 4.0 with a low unweighted GPA.</p>
<p>My soph year I made that mistake. Learned my lesson in Junior and Senior year. I only take 2 APs a year max; this year I'm taking 1 AP and 2 honor courses but they're math/writing courses which I do quite well in. My gpa? 4.31.</p>
<p>juliechoi06. Im not lying. My friend got into AG Business with a 3.4 one AP class EVER!! and a 1430 on the NEW SATs!!!! I have seen her transcript. Where I am from all the ag kids go there and they all have average scores and gpa's and dont get into the UCs so sorry they might be lucky or something but they all end up going there...so they are not lying. Read what other people have been posting. And yes i am sure they are not talking about pomona....they wouldnt even know where that school was.</p>
<p>I'm guessing your geographical area is near San Luis Obispo. You guys have an added consideration compared to the rest of the applicants. As I said 3.4 looks plausible to get into AG, but I don't know how 1430/2400 helped them get in. What is their verbal/math score alone? Written is not considered, possible their written was very low compared to verbal/math. </p>
<p>Possibly they reported alot of service done in the field of AG. If not, maybe geographical area may have helped. </p>
<p>Are they a minority (asian doesn't count, it depends on what kind of asian. Chinese for example, is a well represented asian ethnic group in SLO, so chinese american applicants may not have special consideration such as a filipino applicant who is not a well represented asian ethnic group in SLO)</p>
<p>Anyway, I wouldn't be too concerned with AG students. Don't judge the university by the lowest standard applicant who got into the lowest standard college of the university. After all, the applications are done seperately, and with a 3.4 gpa in high school, for sure they won't be able to tranfer into a prestigious college such as Engineering or Architecture.</p>
<p>As for you not getting in, thats just a misfortune. CPSLO's admissions for engineering is harder than the mid-tier UC schools. Not as tough as LA or Berkeley but for sure tough. Unlike the UC schools, Cal Poly does not have ELC, which may have given you special consideration in the top UC universities. Don't forget, even in UCLA only around 44% of 4.0+ and high SAT scoring students get in. I'm not sure the gpa breakdown of Cal Poly, but possibly you were the percent of high grade/scoring students who were not accepted because of space. The good news? Atleast you weren't the 56% of high scoring/graded applicants who were rejected from UCLA. </p>
<p>Don't be too sad those less than you AG students were selected over you. I'm sure you applied engineering/architecture. And don't let the fact that not soo bright students get into the school through AG and smarter students like you don't get into much harder schools such as Engineering or Architecture. Them getting in shouldn't let you diminish the reputation of the school. </p>
<p>Just think of it as super athletes with not so great grades getting into UCLA. Yes, admissions isn't always fair isn't it. One universities loss, is anothers gain. Sorry you weren't selected for Cal Poly, it must have been luck of the draw for you.</p>
<p>xtx:</p>
<p>"I looked up the stats for those from my son's school applying to Cal Poly. Over the past five years, 13 of 25 students were accepted and the average GPA was only 3.22...even though this is unweighted, it seems to me entirely possible (probable?) that these admittees by and large had less than a 3.5 weighted GPA, as the school does not offer many honors or ap classes."</p>
<p>i'm probably going to look unreasonably stubborn but here goes:
1) cal poly does not look at unweighted grades. and if they do, they don't state the unweighted grades.
2) and you said the past five years? for one that is not reliable, due to the high growth in popularity and recognition over the past 2/3 years.
3) last year, the average gpa for students who were admitted was a 3.8. (csumentor.edu)
4) Last year, a minority friend with a 3.5 & 1200 was rejected from cal poly for ag business. (she chose this major b/c she had no doubt that she'd get in.)
5) go to the cal poly website for prospective students and it has the stats of those who apply & who get accepted (from last year). from what i recall, even for AGRICULTURE, the average gpa was a 3.6. and i know that if there was a 3.8 student who had been admittted,then there obviously must be a student with a 3.4 who was also admitted to even it out. but if you also look at the gpa of those who got in but did not choose to go there, the average gpa is higher than that. </p>
<p>JaneL:
i didn't know you were talking about JUST agriculture. i thought this b/c you said "besides architecture and engineering". & i assumed that you meant that those were the average gpa's for majors such as business, web design, computer science, etc.</p>
<p>justsomeboi:
i can honestly say that EC's or related work. really didn't have anything to do with it. well maybe it was a big factor for agriculture. i worked an average of 21 hours per week & 40% had to do with my major. as for EC's i had about an average of 22 hours per week. That oviously did not help my 3.8/1200, even though that is pretty low for a business major.</p>
<p>intersting statistics</p>
<p>"Don't be too sad those less than you AG students were selected over you. I'm sure you applied engineering/architecture. And don't let the fact that not soo bright students get into the school through AG and smarter students like you don't get into much harder schools such as Engineering or Architecture. Them getting in shouldn't let you diminish the reputation of the school." </p>
<p>Ouch that kinda hurt my feelings...</p>
<p>Sorry ElenaHeart, yes the comment was very harsh. I should also add that great students are in the College of AG. The reason AG tends to be put down is because alot use it as an intro point into CPSLO to get into more selective colleges such as Engineering.</p>
<p>But, AG is still part of SLO and nevertheless holds the standard of the overall Cal Poly standard. Its just not so many are into AG fields that AG tends to be less selective.</p>
<p>Anybody else has just received their acceptance / rejection letter?
I haven't heard anything from them till now.</p>
<p>Considering the Statement of Intent to Register was due 2 days ago, its safe to say you were rejected. If you thought your acception got lost in the mail you should have called up the school.</p>