<p>@beachball101 There’s no need to bash a school and complain about not receiving your admission while its still early March. The majority of schools come out in the middle of the month, and SLO will probably will also. Cal Poly is a great school and you don’t have to be bitter just because your friends are finding out earlier than you. Regarding your comment that SLO “not being competent” as other schools…yeeeeah…no.
For everyone, instead of looking up questionably valid online reviews, go see SLO for yourself and be your own judge instead of relying on what others believe.</p>
<p>I understand the anger.</p>
<p>NO ONE would tolerate having your classes graded based on how well you did plus whether or not your parents went to college or went to SLO specifically or what zip code you came from, etc. </p>
<p>Can you even imagine … yup, you got an A in the class, but we rescored you to a B since your parents had graduate degrees and you came from a high school with a 900 API and your parents make $200K? That’s the process that’s being revealed here in admissions and people are not pleased … of course.</p>
<p>Frankly it smacks of socialism.</p>
<p>@tenfromla
Please dont. FWIW my daughter checked everything that you have mentioned but still accepted to one of the most competittive major. </p>
<p>@2018dad - if it quacks like a duck … you explain the 4.4s with 34 ACTs who are waitlisted and the 3.4s with 26 ACTs who are accepted. Those are might big fudge factors going on.</p>
<p>@tenfromla – The obvious explanation is different majors. Look at the .pdf posted by 2018dad a few posts above. Some majors (like BME) are as competitive as any ivy league school. Others are not. CP only compares you against other students applying to your same major and residency status. </p>
<p>Ok, what i don’t get is why they are giving bonuses to those going to low performance high schools. I specifically made the choice to switch which parent i lived with, where i lived, and to start all over with my life, so i could go to one of the most rigorous high schools in the US, which i thought would make colleges more likely to accept me, not less. Why are they giving spots to people who probably had teachers that were easy as $&@#$& and got straight A’s because the teachers liked them. I 10000% know that if i would have stayed where I was, I would be a 4.0+ student, going to a low performing high school that was not challenging me at all. That just kills me, to know that I,who made a conscious decision to go to a harder school, challenge myself, and sacrifice my perfect gpa, all for colleges to see me as more privileged than some nitwit, and give them my place is just effing stupid. Colleges should look at the api scores, and give more spots to those at schools scoring higher than lower. It just didn’t make sense in my logical mind, how they see this as fair. Don’t get me wrong, i know that there are those occasional students who go to these high schools, who do deserve it, but i have a brother that went where i would have, and got a higher gpa than me, because the classes were way easier than mine. I will still wait for my decision, but have a feeling that now i am rejected. I would still love to go there, and am not saying that it is a cruddy university, rather the opposite, and had been my dream school for almost all of high school. I am just ridiculing their admission process. Sorry for the rant, and i don’t mean to be disrespectful in any way, but that is how i see it.</p>
<p>@tenfromla, you put it PERFECTLY! Thank you</p>
<p>How about these, apple to apple, orange to orange:
- Accepted mech e uw gpa 3.1 w 3.5 sat 1900 from bay area. One ap class. Found out today
- Still waiting for Mech E GPA: 4.0 UW 4.42 CSU W ACT: 33 7 APs</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong. Congratulation to the one who get accepted. I just question the SLO admission process.</p>
<p>@uclamom2018 – I can’t know for sure, but I suspect that the person who posted that low-stats ME acceptance is a ■■■■■. That post is his/her only post ever on CC, and it came during a period that no one else was posting acceptances in this thread. I suspect it was someone getting kicks out of causing an uproar with all the people here still waiting for a decision. If, by chance, it is a legitimate acceptance, it is clearly some kind of unusual and exceptional case.</p>
<p>Looks like BME had 1924 freshman applicants for 75 openings. Assuming 33% yield, that would mean about 225 BME freshman acceptances, or an acceptance rate of 11%. Here is an example of one of the very few here on CC accepted to BME. This supports the notion that the highest stats kids within a given major are getting in.</p>
<p>accepted BME
GPA W-4.46
UC/CSU-4.56
SAT-2190, 1500 (750 CR+M)
9 APs
Instate </p>
<p>@justin7473 students at low performing schools are challenged and have rigorous classes too. There are just fewer students who take advantage of the opportunities. It certainly doesn’t mean that all the classes offered at low performing schools are bone head classes and automatic A’s. My D is a senior at a low performing school. She is taking AP calc AP Brit lit Physics this year. Her dad has a BS in petroleum eng and a MS in computer science he wrote software for NASA wind tunnels in Silicon Valley. HE is challenged by some of her math work. </p>
<p>I wonder how every student that applies goes to the most rigorous high school in the state and in the U.S.?! They must be handing out those blue ribbons like candy nowadays.</p>
<p>Always better to attend the stronger high school in the long run for so many reasons. But they can’t all be the best or hardest!</p>
<p>@nomie1, i know, that is what i said, that there is the occasional one that tries, but considering how hard my school is, the teachers have even told us that a B at our school is like an A at any other school. @blueskies2day, I go to university preparatory school in redding, look it up, it is nationally ranked gold by every school rating site i have seen. I don’t know about everyone else, but mine actually IS recognized.</p>
<p>How can you find out if your school is considered “low performing” by SLO?</p>
<p>Never mind, I found a couple links/sources.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.csac.ca.gov/pubs/forms/grnt_frm/lowperformingschool.pdf”>http://www.csac.ca.gov/pubs/forms/grnt_frm/lowperformingschool.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href=“Persistently Lowest-Achieving Schools - Programs No Longer Administered by CDE (CA Dept of Education)”>http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/pl/</a></p>
<p>Think about under performing high schools in API order. 700-999 get no kicker. Lower scoring schools seem to get up to 500 points from reading postings. Due to the lack of transparency, it’s hard to know if it’s 250 points for 400-700 and 500 points below 400 or whatnot.</p>
<p>@justin7473 - of course your teaches will tell you they are the best. They certainly aren’t going to tell you the opposite. They know who is paying them.
I can tell you that at my D’s school there are appethetic teachers that put out no effort and provide A’s that are undeserved! But for kids to truly perform at a rigorous level they must seek it out. It is not spoonfed to them. At the freshman and sophomore levels they must deal with foul language, kids smoking in class, and unchecked cheating, drugs on campus and kids that exhibit in class their fondness for satanic rituals. This is why CP awards kids that perform well at low performing schools extra points. They have already proved who they are, what their dedication and drive is about and that they know how to get over the mountain that has been put before them! She has about 365 students in her class and about 40 of them have taken the AP road</p>
<p>But isn’t that…idk wrong?</p>
<p>That’s basically telling all of us who went to decent schools, or HARD schools that our choice was wrong? That we should’ve chosen an easier school where we would’ve had the opportunity to be at the higher percentile? I understand this is just a cal poly thing, but some people have had Cal poly as their #1 for awhile and it seems like a punishment to people like justin who chose to go higher up for a better, challenging education. But also for many of us, our school WAS NOT our choice. I have nothing against your child @nomie1, but I don’t appreciate that we have less of a chance because of something like school choice. </p>
<p>And please forgive me if i’m coming off as completely ignorant, this has just been a frustration that i’ve dealt with for awhile. </p>
<p>Can’t say weather it’s right or wrong. I would say that the low performing schools may actually be harder - they have the rigor if chosen and the extraneous variables to deal with as well. The kids that don’t go the AP route at low performing schools are NOT your competitors. Those kids are not applying to CP. You are competing with kids who have chosen the tough classes AND have had to learn how to block out all the crap around them. Don’t know if it’s right or not. I Can only say why I think cal poly has made the decision to award these points. BTW - my D has not been accepted to SLO</p>