<p>R3achForTh3Stars, what is your high school like? The only other missing element that I can think of, especially as you are comparing yourself to others with similar stats, is the overall ranking and rigor of your high school. Have kids from your high school gone to Cal Poly and been successful in previous years?</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that.
The one thing to look at is rank in your class.
Hopefully, you will get in RD.</p>
<p>Erik</p>
<p>@R3achForTh3Stars, SLO uses a point procedure (Multi-criteria admissions) for freshman applicants, with the four main sections that are weighted -
- Academic Performance (GPA) 44-55% of the weight.<br>
- Program of Study with respect to College Preparatory Coursework (10-19%).
- Standardized Test Scores (SAT) (25-35%))
- Extracurricular Activities/work experience (1-10%)</p>
<p>If there is an overflow of students that meet the minimum criterion score set by each college, bonus points are awarded for particular qualities of a student. These qualities include: </p>
<p>California recently released veteran
Service Area
Partner Schools
Father’s highest education level: No/Some High School
Mother’s highest education level: No/Some High School
Faculty or Staff Dependent</p>
<p>It is possible to score higher academically than other applicants (that were admitted), however they might have received the max for extracurriculars/work experience and bonus points. Anyhow, it appears to be a complicated process. Good luck in RD.</p>
<p><a href=“http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=statsp[/url]”>http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=statsp</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the help guys.
My rank in high school (not sure if it matters) is
class rank: 30/590
10-12 rank: 23/590
My high school is LaQuinta High School and our API is 879 also my school is a Title I School, Title I Schoolwide, Gifted and Talented Program, Bilingual Education (also not sure if it matters)
In terms of other qualities i can only think of:
Single Mother, 1st generation college student, mother = some high school
I’m not sure about how many people from my school accepted, because as i have seen, not alot of people seem to know about SLO; They mostly focus on the UC’s and CSULB or cal poly pomona.</p>
<p>R3achforth3stars</p>
<p>Your stats and rigor look great, so I am sure it will work out. If you did well on AP exams, you should have a shot at top UCs. The reason I asked about rank is because of grade inflation and competition. Though none of the universtities document it, I believe each student is primarily competing with students from their school. Otherwise they might admit 50 from the best schools.</p>
<p>I see UCLA and UCSB admitting the top 4 applicants from my son’s high school each year. I saw a student at Palo Alto High School with better grades, SAT over 2000, and great ECs get denied by the top 5 UCs I believe because his school is so competitive that he was in the 13th percentile. </p>
<p>That is my only theory right now is that your school’s ED Comp Sci were taken by students ranked above you at La Quinta.</p>
<p>@trakarclay</p>
<p>Thanks for the input! I have asked around and only 1 other person i know has also applied to ED but he is a lot lower than me in terms of rank and from what i have gathered no one above me has applied to SLO for ED, they are very focused on UCs, so i don’t think any of them could have gotten my schools spot especially for comp sci because they all want to go into the medical field.</p>
<p>@R3achForTh3Stars Does your portal say “Thank you for applying.” or does it say “Thank you for applying ED?” </p>
<p>My friend, from another school, who had a 4.02 was also deferred from ED… she did have a great SAT and course rigor (she had 6 years of math and had 6 APS 10-11)…</p>
<p>@kaplogy</p>
<p>It said “Thank you for applying to cal poly ED”
then it said “Thank you for applying to cal poly”</p>
<p>Well, then you got robbed. You’ll make a success no matter where you go.</p>
<p>@trakarclay</p>
<p>Thank you! 
I do intend to make the most of my college and have fun!</p>
<p>@R3achForTh3Stars
You completely deserved to be accepted, I hope you get in RD!</p>
<p>There’s a Facebook group called “Cal Poly SLO Class of 2018” where a lot of ED students have already joined, if anyone is interested</p>
<p>I’m in for Mech Engineering</p>
<p>3.96 gpa
2020 sat</p>
<p>I’ve been accepted!
Adding this for some perspective:</p>
<p>Major: Architectural Engineering
SAT: 1330 (670 Math + 660 Critical Reading)
GPA: 3.96</p>
<p>Only two APs completed and two currently. Eng Comp and Calc AB junior year and Eng Lit and Calc BC this year.</p>
<p>I’ve got an internship at a mechanical engineering firm, and worked 40 hrs/wk there over the summer. This year I now have a leadership position in an engineering design club, ACE mentor program.</p>
<p>I’m coming all the way from Maryland too! :)</p>
<p>Congratulations to all the accepted applicants to Cal Poly! Enrollment next Fall is far away so I highly recommend that you plan to attend the Open House on April 10,11 and 12, 2014. Make sure that you get you hotel reservations made early. Plan to arrive on Thursday so that you can experience the Farmer’s Market on Thursday night in Downtown SLO, participate in all relevant events for your major and stay for the Rodeo on Sunday. It is a real Collegiate Championship Rodeo that will blow your minds. Then plan on attending SOAR during the summer (optional but HIGHLY recommended) and WOW Week (Week of Welcome) is an absolute must. I am not kidding, participation in WOW Week can transform your entire Freshman year for the better.</p>
<p>Anyway, great job guys and to those that were not accepted ED, keep the faith. I know a lot of folks that did not get in for ED and were accepted for RD. It is not over yet and RD decisions come out in mid to late February for the most part.</p>
<p>Thanks, OsakaDad! Much appreciated. I knew about the open house, and WOW…now need to figure out what SOAR is!</p>
<p>Found it! Web site for last summer’s SOAR program: [New</a> Student Programs - New Student Programs - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo](<a href=“http://www.studentlife.calpoly.edu/orientation/soar/index.asp]New”>http://www.studentlife.calpoly.edu/orientation/soar/index.asp)</p>
<p>Hey guys, I also got accepted for ED engineering. I applied for Manufacturing Engineering, since I’ve always shown an interest in industrial processes (and it’s also a less-impacted major, I might be considering switching to Mechanical later on). Here are my stats:</p>
<p>Major: Manufacturing Engineering
SAT: 1410 (760 Math/650 CR) but my ACT was better, 33 composite (35 math/34 science, can’t remember the others)
GPA: 3.614 UW, 3.92 Weighted</p>
<p>AP’s: I’ve actually spent the last year and a half (Junior/senior semesters) in a california middle college program on a community college campus so I only have 3 regular courses (English, History/Econ/Gov and a college/career readiness course) but I’ve taken about 40 credit hours of college classes, all of which were UC-transferable and thus weighted as AP classes. I did take Calculus and AS Physics as a sophomore though, and apparently those counted as AP’s for purposes of GPA-boosting.</p>
<p>Mine is a little bit of an unusual case, but my point here is that I don’t have anywhere near a perfect GPA (nor do I have a huge variety of EC’s, only a deep dedication to DeMolay and Freemasonry) so if anyone is looking at this in the future and living in California as a Junior in high school, think about taking a few college courses at your local community college. It looks really good on a transcript and any CSU-transferable courses give credit for all CSU’s, so you don’t have to take the ridiculously hard and tendonitis-inducing AP tests that I hear all my friends complaining about.</p>
<p>Guys!!! How did you find out about acceptance?? I never received anything to make a portal when I first applied:/</p>
<p>JustDolt, my D received an email the day after she replied about setting up her portal. Check your spam, and if there isn’t an email from CalPoly there, then call the admissions office so that they can help.</p>