<p>thanks archkid for that post...have your heard about the whole march 15th thing. do you think thats how it will work this year, even with the change in all the housing stuff?</p>
<p>Because its the night of march 14th and i still have a no determination. the 15th is a saturday and that is a non-business day, so would they post stuff still on that day?</p>
<p>I look at it this way;
All the current 1st, 2nd and 3rd years have already selected housing for next fall.
Many prefer off-campus as it's close, often cheaper, you can do your own food thing, and less rules - for instance the campus is dry, so there should be many who move off leaving dorm space behind.
All graduating class will be gone.
There will be at least 1,200 more housing spaces this year than last.
Your only competition is other accepted students who commit to enrolling now, and select housing.
Most kids with high enough stats to get into CP probably applied elsewhere, as confirmed by the accepted to enrolled ratio, so many won't commit until they hear from other schools, plus some will have to wait for fin aid decisions.
The 'matched' roommates have to commit by the 27th, those spaces go back into the pool after that.</p>
<p>My gut feel is on-campus first year housing won't fill up until at least April.</p>
<p>I saw thousands of happy students today, so somehow it will all work out for those who choose CP.</p>
<p>-sara</p>
<p>Great couple of posts, thanks for the valuable info. :)</p>
<p>Oh, by the March 15th thing did you mean the end of acceptances? If so don't sweat it. They are not done accepting yet.</p>
<p>Jack you still out there? The arch dept is pretty cool. I had long conversations with profs and students, and they are not done accepting yet either.</p>
<p>-sara</p>
<p>oh really?
i still have some hope, just not a lot. are you still waiting to see if you have been accepted? or have you heard yet?</p>
<p>I'm still waiting. Also do they keep posting acceptance statuses over the weekend or are they gonna take a break.</p>
<p>i think they are still sent out during the weekend...i'm not 100% though.</p>
<p>The deal with my mom was she would only take me down to see the school if I was accepted, and today was the only day we both had available for the next two months. Sooooo, I had to peek at the website on Thursday morning, and yes, they will take me if I want to go. If I remember correctly you were just a few points behind be numberwise.
Arch said they were looking to accept about 680 or so hoping for 300ish admits. Last year they had way too many admits from the accepted list and the current first year studios are a bit crowded. I asked if they would accept fewer and then build with waitlisted kids this year and he said it's been discussed.</p>
<p>-sara</p>
<p>cool! well congratulations! what other arch schools do you have in mind, providing you are accepted...haha! or do you think you will go to cal poly?</p>
<p>i wish i had applied to places like rpi, pratt, vtech, gtech...i am really interested in u of oregon though now. i really like the program, i think it's the second best in the west? (i think). and the area is amazing!</p>
<p>and yes, think i was just behind you, and some other person on here too, if i remember correctly...hm, maybe they have a spot for me soon? did they say if they were for sure accepting more people? and if so, like in the next couple weeks?</p>
<p>I was told by a prof this morning that CP Arch is not finished accepting, they have more to do next week. Wouldn't say how many more.</p>
<p>RPI would be a good school for me, but it's 50K. Out of my budget unless merit aid is big. I doubt that, as I'm only in the 50th percentile there. They give good aid to those at the top end.
CMU (also big $$) might be more of a challenge than I could handle, kids there seemed mostly the type that never give up trying harder, always pushing themselves for that 100% on everything. Be a nice environment to work in, yet being in their 25 percentile I might get eaten alive.
WIT has an Arch program that is very strong and getting stronger. Great co-ops that are mandatory, and they are upgrading from BArch to a 5 yr MArch program. The dorms and studios are great, however the rest of the campus is minimal, no student union, not much for food, not many other majors, fewer on-campus activities etc, but it is in Boston with lots of college age stuff around. I'm at the high end stat wise, and like RPI they want more west coast kids to help build name recognition out here, so have a good shot at decent merit aid. My only real reservation is the amount of snow and frozen slush. Been watching the weather there all winter and wow they have been slammed this year.
Cal Poly has the best ranked Arch program of those I applied to, but it's crowded in the studios (I saw studios that were that were designed for 16 students with 20 to 24 students and I think the first year prof told me he has 28? in his drawing class). Also the facilities are showing lack of maintenance, people (both students and profs) mentioned today how there's little money to fix or replace broken stuff, and the state is going to hack their budget even more. .... Yet it still is a very highly ranked department and has huge respect and representation in the industry. They have to accept students based on the stats numbers game, meaning talent, interest and experience don't get to factor in, (hey they accepted me, lol) so the beginning class is somewhat variable and it takes a while to sort out those that will excel. By the way, they spoke very highly of those kids who transfered in from Cuesta. Said they were all up and running on day one... The Cuesta kids kinda replace those that washout. Might actually be the best way to get a CP BArch degree.</p>
<p>There are also a few other schools I'm waiting on. Once I get a pile of letters I'll start opening them...</p>
<p>-sara</p>
<p>Well its 1 am march 15, and still the same old "no determination has been made" message. </p>
<p>Did anyone get an acceptance, rejection, or waitlist around this time.</p>
<p>Still nothing today. Wow, I hate this.</p>
<p>i know, what the hell....but hopefully they post over weekend. I'm guessing they're saving the best for last...haha</p>
<p>If you use the data for Calpoly SLO on the mychances.net website of 73 applicants for 2008, 22 (or 30%) say they have been accepted. Historically, this rate is about 44% so we can say 14% have yet to be notified.</p>
<p>In a perfect world, everyone would keep their info up to date and the info would be current, which I doubt is. Take a moment to update your info on mychances.net. The site makes nice charts! (I have no connection with them)</p>
<p>I just did the whole mychances.net thing. How accurate is this website really. Is it all by community based predictions or do they actually have live access to all the admission data of all the colleges.</p>
<p>I think mychances.net has a basic model and then refines it with community data. It's only as good as the user data, but presuming user data is a random sample, it is still better than "I have a x.xx gpa, what do you think?"</p>
<p>yeah i agree.
i'd say it is FAIRLY accurate...but not necessarily.</p>