“The San Luis Obispo university received a total of 65,155 applications for fall 2019. That’s slightly fewer than a record 65,507 applications Cal Poly received the previous year when less than a third of applicants were accepted.”
Could this possibly have to do with the several racial incidents which have occurred on campus over this last year?
I doubt 350 fewer applications signifies anything but noise in the data. But I will say that any decrease at all is going to be music to the ears of many anxious Cali parents and prospective CalPoly students!
Basically it says that Cal Poly was less active in seeking student growth, since it wants to reduce enrollment which I am guessing translates in fewer promotional activities to generate applications.
Painting an entire student body with a smelly brush based on the reprehensible actions of a few dumb headed individuals feels like a bit of a stretch to me.
Add one more factor. With year of the snake the following year (2001), there was a decline in number of Asian kids born that year. I’m sure this had at least a small factor in it (the other third for 2023).
