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June 21, 2021, 6:53pm
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The best we know, yes. The last the algorithm was public facing was 2013. Things have changed since then, the SAT for example. I believe that weighting is a UC/CSU construct and not that of CP. The full MCA explanation, again, the best we know, is linked below.
Cal Poly, the best we know, uses an algorithm called Multiple Criteria for Admissions (MCA) to do admissions. I say “the best we know” because the last Cal Poly published anything on the MCA was 2013 and that link has been removed. They will not acknowledge it if asked. That said, in the years I’ve been tracking it, the results seem to hold. I believe it is still being used.
I dug into this several years ago because posters were claiming that CP passed over highly qualified applicants. I had anecdotal information to refute that (my high stats son got in and averages, particularly for the CENG are too high to not have high stats students. That led to the discovery of the MCA, and algorithm that is far more than just GPA and test scores.
It turns out that there’s another reason that high stats students got rejected. Some were leaving off appropriate middle school grades, resulting in a lower MCA than they thought.
THINGS HAVE CHANGED SINCE I ORIGINALLY POSTED THIS.
ED no longer exist…
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