Is any other CSU school even close to being as competitive as SLO for Engineering?
I think SLO has the lock on being the most competitive CSU for Engineering but that doesn’t mean some of the other CSU’s do not have good programs such as CPP, CSULB, SDSU, SJSU to name a few.
My daughter got accepted to the CSU Long Beach aerospace program, but Cal Poly ranks above it for her. We’re still reviewing her options and waiting to see if she gets accepted to Cal Poly.
@Luckymomof3, for Aero, Mechanical, BME and CS, there are only two schools in all of California that are more competitive, Stanford and Caltech. It’s common for Cali kids to use CP as a safety only to get into UCLA and/or UCB and be rejected by Poly. Every year there are threads about students and parents complaining that they/their kid didn’t get into their “safety school” and that there must be something wrong. What was wrong was their assumption. Cal Poly, for engineering and a few other majors is EXTREMELY competitive.
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How does Cal Poly Pomona compare with SLO. If you got into Pomona does that mean you have a good chance of getting into SLO for aerospace? thanks
@Yasmine66 I believe getting into SLO is a lot more difficult than getting into Cal Poly Pomona.
Approximate acceptance rate for Aerospace Engineering:
SLO 27%
CPP 36%
@Gumbymom, last year’s predicted aero admit was 23%, but that’s not the whole story. The pool of applicants are stronger at CP SLO than at CPP. Just looking at admit rates can be a little misleading.
@eyemgh: That is very true. It was just a ball park to give the poster some prospective since I am sure that both schools do not have the same applicant pool. My younger son got into CPP with Honors quite easily for CS last year, but no go for SLO.
@Gumbymom Do you know the acceptance rate for nutrition? I saw that you said 27% on someone’s thread, but is it really that low? 
Yes, around 27% is the predicted acceptance rate but like @eyemgh stated above^ that is not the whole story. Much depends how competitive the applicant pool for each major will be and the number of applicants for each major. Some majors such Dairy Science have a 66% predicted acceptance rate and others even higher but the majority even lower: CS 11% or Bio 18%.
Does anyone have any idea as to how competitive the Animal Science major is?
Predicted acceptance rate for Animal Science is around 37% but also has the most applicants for any major in the School of Agriculture. Good Luck.
Does anyone know where I can find last years acceptances by major? Im looking for communications major stats.
Thx
CP doesn’t post acceptances by major, just by college. What we are referring to are the predicted CP rates. For communications they were looking for just under 1000 applicants to fill 56 spots. Given CPs yield of about 33%, they’d have to offer 168 acceptances. That’s 18%. The flaw with this assumption is that they MIGHT use different yield curves for different majors. Since we don’t know, we use the overall yield of the university. Suffice it to say, Communications is highly sought after and the only have about 50 slots.
Ok thank you. Wow very interesting
Are decisions out on Monday?
@IAmTheGOAT my gut tells me that they might come out tomorrow
@IAmTheGOAT @LOLBeast1 but would they come out on President’s Day, a holiday?