<p>You guys need to stop bashing the school because you didn’t get in.</p>
<p>“Well, the school is dominated by the California future majority anyway. It is not top class anymore.”</p>
<p>wow, what a nasty, sour grapes comment. Stick with UCLA, why don’t you.</p>
<p>Such immature statements are not expected from parents I guess. As parents our level of maturity disallows us such comments in public. Under our skins (may be down to the DNA) isn’t 99% of this country’s citizen some form of an immigrant? OK for the last few decades it was a different color, the future could be different. At the end of it we are citizens of this country and 99% of them with a foreign root.</p>
<p>Our kids need to learn to cope with failure without any racial bias. If you are an aspiring UCLA and Pomona bound student’s parent, have you visited UCLA or checked their student profile? The student population there is about 65% (35% ASIANS + 12% International+18% Hispanic) “Future Majority”. Your poor ward has to cope with that as well, in case he/she makes it there. At Pomona about 37% constitute the same demography. </p>
<p>Yes, we all would have wanted to see our kids go to a competitive college, but the entrance criteria are not aligned, and someone getting in to Pomona or UCLA may not get admitted in to SLO and vice versa. That does not warrant a “Future majority” bash. </p>
<p>Sorry, as responsible parents we need to be RESPONSIBLE, especially in public fora.</p>
<p>Chill guys. Stop bashing Cal Poly as the UC schools have not come out with admission decisions either.
What’s for you will not pass you. </p>
<p>Sorry I’m not a racist because we are also minority. One son in UCB already and most likely in UCLA, his twin brother still waiting. It is SLO admissions that made me scratching my head, since so many unusual low GPA/SAT/ACT beat out much more qualified candidates. Don’t tell me EC… playing a role at SLO because they are not. Coupled with the Dean’s speech about “Future CA majority”, I felt that they are playing more political game than searching for the best candidates. Who knows that one today admitted at SLO could be CA’s governor 30 years from now. Or Mayor of Los Angeles, San Francisco and so on… When a school tempted the political path, it is no longer the best place for education. It is as simple as that.</p>
<p>@uclamom2018, you are so wrong. The UC’s have just as many if not MORE low scoring students as Cal Poly. Obviously your twin sons are exactly alike. Did the one who hasn’t heard apply at Berkeley and UCLA too? Are you bashing them? Schools using subjective reasons for picking a student can ignore even the highest GPA/test score student, just because. Most ivies have huge numbers of legacies who wouldn’t have had a chance of getting in if not for being a legacy. Do you yell at Cal Tech because they accept women with lower averages than the men? Look at this newly posted Target report: <a href=“IR Home - Institutional Research - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo”>IR Home - Institutional Research - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; There are some majors accepted less that 5 students. COSAM and Engineering were so overloaded last year that they cut way back. If you have really high gpas and test scores you are probably waiting for some more numbers coming in to see how accurate their intending to attend percentages are. It isn’t easy. Last year less expensive schools had much higher intention numbers due to fears of the economy, who knows what will happen this year. Regardless it is not right to attack the school. Part of the reason they put the acceptances out in waves is to not turn down a student that is on the cusp. </p>
<p>An admission consulor from calpoly came to our school today to talk those who were accepted and said acceptance are still going out until April 1st </p>
<p>Myself also being a minority I’ve been told calpoly slo tries to find a balance between over qualified private school students and public school students as well as adding diversity which might account for the lowers stats being accepted </p>
<p>Why are you guys so pessimistic? I won’t stop checking my portal until april beings</p>
<p>I think we are all reading farther into this than we should be. Admissions is random. It depends on WHO (personality wise) reviews your application and WHEN (are they tired that day, are they happy, are they having a bad day or a good day ect.) With Cal Poly it really isn’t personal, they really do look at numbers and do factor in other things such as income and APs as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did send acceptances out until April 1st because they had 51,000 applications, they’re all-time record. I’m assuming they only have 15, maybe 20 people reviewing these, and most likely they have to review them not only once, but twice after people have chosen to attend a school other than Cal Poly. So I think it is best to stop calling at this point and let it happen. If you haven’t been denied, there is still a chance. I’m sure they have sent out rejections, but we do not have very many people on this forum, and I highly doubt someone would want to talk about their rejection. </p>
<p>At this point, everything is out of our control, and although it is hard to wait, we are just going to have to accept it. It is better to occupy our time with our current lives than worry over this admission process.</p>
<p>@53polo Yes kids and parents have posted denies. And yes they ARE still sending out accepts, my D friend got one yesterday or today but don’t know what major, sorry!</p>
<p>@aznkydragon good luck to you! It’s friday and sometimes parents get grumpy at the end of the week. </p>
<p>@ 53polo "I think we are all reading farther into this than we should be. Admissions is random. It depends on WHO (personality wise) reviews your application and WHEN (are they tired that day, are they happy, are they having a bad day or a good day ect.) "</p>
<p>The admission counselor AT Cal Poly told us just two weeks ago that a human being never sees your application. They don’t have a staff for that. No one is reading it. That’s what he said exactly. That is what number crunching means. Formulas, not moods drive what happens. It’s simple. And this year obviously points have been awarded in different ways.</p>
<p>@sudsmom Have there really been rejections? I haven’t seen anything on this forum? It’s good to know it’s all going out</p>
<p>Has anyone heard back for Industrial Engineering yet? If so, can you provide your stats? </p>
<p>guys… stop being so negative… and stop turning this thread into war field please! I understand where you guys are coming from. Not being accepted yet is honestly tiring-- whats more tiring the fact that you don’t know whether you have been accepted or not. It always happens like, things we love will become things we hate when nothing fruitful comes back out of them… Yea, I feel like its time to move on too. And personally, I don’t feel as fired up about Cal poly as I was a couple of months ago… its fine, whether I get in or not…</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you who were selected into Cal Poly! It is a very good school and you are lucky to be there! Good Luck to the rest of us that are still waiting-just that its fine even if you don’t get in. Cal poly SLO is just one school out of many… who knows even if you don’t get in there, someday you’ll probably think “maybe it was good that I didn’t get in” </p>
<p>Bad process unnecessarily damages relationships. Seen it many times at work.</p>
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<p>Accdng to the figures above and using about 33% yield there are majors that acceptance rate are in the teens or lower:</p>
<p>Biological Science - 13.9%
Biomed - 11.8%
Computer Science - 15.4%
Mech, Engg - 18%</p>
<p>All Eng’g - 23.6%</p>
<p>@53polo I don’t know where you get your information, but… people do not “review” applications to look for income, APs, they also do not have to review the applications again once a number or numbers are calculated. Moods have nothing to do with it. It is a very straightforward method of calculating an MCA number with and without the extra points and then the number is all that is used to offer acceptances. Each department comes up with a minimum acceptance number to my knowledge, and the departments come up with a number of new students they want. They calculate an assumed acceptance rate and send out acceptances of X percent over the number wanted in each category (MCA/MCA+) and draw a line and send out the acceptances. As students reply either to attend or not they can sometimes send out more offers. After April 1st I believe they will use the waitlists to pick more students if they have underestimated the attend rate. This will be major by major. So one major may need more students while another has too many. Last year nearly all majors went over some quite significantly the number of new students they expected thus only 15 students came in off the waitlist. In 2012 they made the opposite miss guess and over 1,000 students came in from the waitlist. Finally everyone I know, well most my student knows, is very happy where they ended up and can’t imagine being anywhere else. Some that my son knows, either found Cal Poly too difficult and/or found freedom too tempting and left. So even though it was their ideal choice it didn’t work out. I know it is devastating not getting your number one choice, but it isn’t the end, and if you really really want Cal Poly go somewhere else or a CC and study how to get in as a transfer and do that, Transfer acceptance rates are much higher.</p>
<p>Can’t believe I was wrong about the friday d-day. Yawn.</p>
<p>Hopefully its soon. Guess i’ll pop out the popcorn because it seems the “low gpa acceptances” are getting some people in a bunch.</p>
<p>I am so over it. Checking my status every week. I will wait for my rejection notification (which will be sent to me during the oft-quoted by admissions staff"2-week" period-obviously to them two weeks means 6 weeks) and attend SDSU or Cal Poly Pomona (accepted and invited into Honors Program at both) where I will actually be able to switch majors without a hassle. Who knows at 17 what you want to do for the rest of your life? A friend of mine boasted that she applied to a less popular major, Dairy Science, at SLO (which she isn’t interested in), was accepted and plans to immediately switch majors. So basically, she gamed the system. So basically, if you are truthful about your major, if it’s popular and impacted then you have a lower chance of being accepted than a person who cheats and chooses a less popular major. I laughed when I read an older post by a person who got into USC but got rejected by SLO. Really? It’s only a Cal State and a lot more people across the nation have heard about USC and San Diego State than Cal Poly. Good luck to all those who have been accepted. I have a feeling you will be convincing yourself in 2 years how great this overrated school is and how charming and fun the little town of SLO is. Do I sound bitter? Perhaps. But if this is how SLO runs their admission process where acceptances are dribbled out, it proves to me that 1) their class registration process must be a disaster and 2) they aren’t as competent as the privates and the UC’s who cite a specific date when ALL notices will go out and 3) administration doesn’t give a damn about students. As for those that got in, I look forward to hearing back from you in 5 1/2 years when you finally graduate. And before you commit, do yourself a favor and read ALL the online reviews you can on SLO. Most of the reviews are positive but the negative reviews should be a wake-up call. And for those of you who read this and say “you don’t deserve a spot at SLO”, you are absolutely right. 5 years of trying to obtain a degree at SLO is NOT what I deserve.</p>