<p>Do you think they are just going by college for second waves, a friend got in for ag yesterday, and there was another out of state architecture. Then nothing for today, but from the pattern, it should have been math and science, and liberal arts, but no more business or engineering. when should mmore engineers hear back?! Dying over here!</p>
<p>@justin7473 ugg I’m freaking out too… I’m in liberal arts and I’m so worried… I just want to know :(</p>
<p>@swagmaster2001 @JanisBaker @navy71 My D was wait listed for Kineseology - CSU GPA 4.19, SAT 2010, ACT 33 - we are stunned 
- I don’t understand at all, her stats meet this minimum requirements to apply for Cal Polys Honor program, am I missing something?</p>
<p>@Misterfoxy From what I’ve heard, that guy hasn’t gotten in yet right? There is a kid who has gotten in for computer engineering though.</p>
<p>@daphne66 I would guess it is because the competition for that specific major is so tough. I will most likely experience the same thing with biomedical engineering. I have good stats on paper but as soon as it gets mixed in with the rest of the people that applied for my major, I look rather normal and even at the lower end of the spectrum. That would be my guess. I’m sorry about that though. Hopefully she still gets in.</p>
<p>@Jnmaietta There was one BME accepted earlier, pg 49, and another after that somewhere (can’t remember the page). I’m an instate waiting for BME too, 4.28 gpa weighted, but only a 1960 SAT (1340 m+Cr) and 30 ACT</p>
<p>@daphne66 Those stats can get her into ucla or uc Berkeley, easily. So I would bet calpoly figures once she gets accepted to these colleges she would go there. Did she apply to calpoly ED and get rolled into RD?</p>
<p>Calm down. if arch/agri were released today, we should see some more tomorrow for math/lib arts. then extending into next week will be bus followed by engineering</p>
<p>and if not, we’ll know by the waitlist decision that should come soon after…provided we dont get an acceptance</p>
<p>@gosackings Ok thanks. I will look at those. Good luck to you!</p>
<p>@daphne66 Her stats are very impressive! I’m surprised that she was waitlisted. When did she find out?</p>
<p>Full disclosure…I have a D who is attending CP. She was accepted into the business school in 2010 as a RD after being deferred ED. I have a S who was rejected from ME in 2013 as a RD…from personal experience (which includes information from several private college counselors as well as S well connected private HS counselor) something is ‘off’.</p>
<p>Last year several very high stats kids from S HS were rejected while at the same time others with calculated MCA (?) scores were accepted to the same major. I do know CP has been ‘challenged’ with changing it’s rather homogenous student population to fit in better with CSU goals. In addition, last year CP had a SIR rate above the normal expected percentage and many majors ( as well as the school in general) was over enrollled. CP is going thru some changes and personally, I think it is reflected in some rather inexplicable admissions decisions.</p>
<p>The way the process worked for both D and S is that after a flood of acceptances there was a period of inactivity (S was not aware of any wait listed applicants from his HS). This period of inactivity was followed by what seemed like an overnight flood of rejections.</p>
<p>S filed an appeal which resulted in his getting wait listed and then ultimately rejected. </p>
<p>I hate to be negative, but this was our experience. I love this school, D has had a wonderful and ultimately professionally successful experience, but something is happening behind the acceptance scenery that is not as clear and transparent as CP likes to make it out to be.</p>
<p>So, for those that are flabbergasted at the results, FWIW, it is NOT you, and you ( like our S) may just find that what initially seemed like an unfairly and rudely closed door turns out to be a blessing. </p>
<p>`Did your students meet every requirement of minimum units, if not there is a huge penalty. Did they take any additional courses above the requirements, if not they missed a huge bonus. Do you know whether the students who were accepted with “lower” calculated scores (by whom) had parents who didn’t graduate high school? Did they go to low performing schools? Were they athletes? Do you know who had a tougher schedule? These are all things that go into the calculation. Only approximately 65% of students are chosen strictly on the standard MCA. I was also told that a large percentage of applications had errors resulting in lower scores. Some didn’t provide test scores, some listed courses for a requirement that didn’t meet the requirement, some counted honors courses and advanced courses as weighted. Also the maximum gpa CP recognizes is a 4.2 I see many listing a higher weighted gpa, you can only calculate your MCA based on a max of 4.2. I am fairly sure mistakes are made on Cal Poly’s part too which is more difficult to ascertain.</p>
<p>czs I can only speak for my particular student. Yes, S had not only all the required units but also the almost all the additional point courses. He had 4 years language, 5 years math, 4 years lab sciences, 4 years English (not 5 so there was a point loss). All UC and CSU applications for both D and S are filled out during special sessions in the senior year. They are audited and reviewed by well versed folks running those sessions. There was no mistake on D or S applications.</p>
<p>A student has no control of pity points… -parents HS graduation status, designated partner HS or service area status. His objective stats were above those posted by accepted students on CC. The counselors that were beyond shocked at the decision were well aware of the nuances of CP’s point calculation. So, I do stand by my personal conclusion…there is more than meets the eye…some additional information is taken into account by the decision algorithm. One speculation which has been discussed on CC is that applicants with well above average stats are rejected because the algorithm puts them into the ‘CP is my safety school’ category. </p>
<p>The stats for each major are very very different. ME, Aero, Architecture are particularly competitive.</p>
<p>Again, personal speculation … CP releases the batch of acceptances and then waits for the initial flood of SIR’s. (In our case, D had hit the ‘I accept’ button 30 seconds after it became available!) Things then settle out for a week and a reassessment of enrollment numbers takes place. This is then followed by a smattering of additional acceptances. </p>
<p>@nutthins Poly does not do that. They offer to everyone in ranked order until they get to the number of acceptances they’ve determined they need to net the yield they want. No “Tufts Syndrome” at CP SLO.</p>
<p>My daughter is one of those that has a stat for UCLA/UCB but she was accepted few days ago to a very competitive major. Look at the pdf file below for PVPHS’ published college acceptances. I don’t see any Tufts syndrom on the SLO’s result. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.pvphs.com/pdf/CollegeAcceptance.pdf”>http://www.pvphs.com/pdf/CollegeAcceptance.pdf</a></p>
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<p>I don’t see how the school would learn anything worthwhile from the small number of students who immediately hit the “accept” button. On the other hand, the school has a tremendous amount of data about yield rates in past years. So I am skeptical that Cal Poly admits in waves to use data from the first wave to determine acceptance rates in subsequent waves.</p>
<p>As for the argument by someone else that Cal Poly is turning down the top applicants because those applicants will go elsewhere (Tufts syndrome): I don’t think any schools do that, since it would reduce the school’s all important average SAT/ACT scores (as well as the quality of its students). Also, anyone who has been following this thread knows that Cal Poly has been accepting some students with very high scores. Tufts Syndrome is just a way for rejected students to feel better about themselves – “Hey, I was rejected because I was too good!”</p>
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Some schools, IMHO, actually do this but I think CalPoly SLO is not one of them.</p>
<p>Some schools reduce their average test scores to increase their yield rate? I am skeptical.</p>
<p>Just heard. D WAIT LISTED
Instate
Architectural Engineering
UW GPA 3.8, Weighted 4.2 (both approximate)
ACT 28
3 AP classes (scored 3’s I think)</p>
<p>Not first choice, so not too big of blow.</p>
<p>Other schools applied:
UC-Irvine (ME) - Supplemental App Requested (on bubble)
UC-Davis (Math) - still waiting
UC-Berkeley (Psychology) - still waiting, but more as a whim
BYU (Math) - Accepted
Northern Arizona - Accepted
George Mason - Accepted</p>
<p>We toured the campus and loved it, so congrats to all going in fall, good luck to those still waiting.</p>
<p>I hope this helps give perspective.</p>