<p>After checking my Cal Poly portal 10 times a day since February, they finally told me that I was not selected for admission…I really want to cry.
I really liked Cal Poly too. But on the bright side, this is far from the end for all of us. We haven’t even started college yet, I’m sure that we are meant to go wherever we go in the fall.</p>
<p>2Leashes, I’m going to USC because I was rejected by Cal Poly today.</p>
<p>Me too. “You have not been selected for admission.” The backup was UC Davis, but I’m going to go to the local city college. I’m set on Cal Poly.</p>
<p>To all:</p>
<p>My wife, daughter and I were ****ed off royally when my daughter didn’t get into Cal Poly. We thought she would be a lock on getting in. My son goes there and we really like the school. However, a very good private ‘polytechnical’ school on the east coast (where I am from and still have a lot of family) accepted my daughter (which I thought was not a given). They then offered her a fairly good sum of merit scholarship money. Given that it usually takes 5 years to get out of Cal Poly (with a degree in ME at least) and the east coast engineering program has a good grad rate after 4, it is about a wash as far as costs go. The student to teacher ratio is much better out east. Anyways, the point of all this is the same. One door closes and another opens. Besides, I always believe it is how much one puts into one’s own education that makes the biggest differance, not the school in which you go to. So for all those that didn’t get into Cal Poly; Good luck where ever you end up. Make the most of your opportunities. And most of all have fun in your chosen field.</p>
<p>Best wishes to you at USC! While my daughter was accepted to both schools and initially liked USC a year ago because it has a 5 year BS/MA program in her major, she realized it would make more sense for her *not *to graduate with loans for undergrad. And, she would have been very dependent on the $20,000 grant they offered for freshman year, not knowing if it would be offered in subsequent year. Not to mention that it was going to be a stretch with our EFC. Our daughter just didn’t want to have the financial stress. I don’t blame her. Also, there are many aspects of Cal Poly she prefers, so it’s all good. Now she can possibly apply to OOS grad programs for occupational therapy.
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Best of luck to you at USC! And, I hope you got an awesome financial aid package like many who I’ve been reading about. That would definitely sweeten the pot for you!**</p>
<p>Fight on.</p>
<p>My son was waitlisted in February. He was applying as an aerospace engineering major. He had a 4.0 unweighted, ACT 31 with Math score in ACT a 35…He is ranked 10/400 or so in his class. Now they finally tell him he has not been accepted. Which is fine with us as he never really wanted to go there. But, I think it is horrible that students with less stats are getting admitted. My sense is that for those who really wanted to go to Cal Poly, they applied early decision and they were admitted. So many people did that, so by the time the regular decision people were applying, the spaces left for them was small… Just a hunch, but it makes sense. It seems kinda ridiculous that people with better stats got rejected, not in all cases but certainly in some</p>
<p>Remember that acceptances depend on the major…Kids with lower stats are usually getting into less competitive majors…</p>
<p>whats your major? i’m going to the local junior college as well and wanting to transfer to cal poly</p>
<p>Definitely agree with the sentiments above regarding doors opening and closing. I was on the opposite side of the table a few years back, as Poly was not my first choice. That “honor” went to USC. Fell in love with the school when grandpa used to take us for walks around campus and to the Trojan football games at the Coliseum. Of course this was back during the '90s when their team was average and tickets were cheap.</p>
<p>Ended up having to decline USC’s offer since it was cost prohibitive to the family and “settled” for Poly - have no regrets whatsoever in retrospect. Living in SLO has been the best years of my life up to this point.</p>
<p>I’m sure you’ll all do great wherever you decide to go. Keep ya head up!</p>
<p>Mechanical Engineering. As of now, I’ll be heading to Sacramento City College (that’s local for me). Do you mean local in SLO? I was kinda tossing the idea around of going to Cuesta… it sounds like a good CC.</p>
<p>I was going to go to cuesta but then I thought i would save a lot more money living at home and going to sac city. but if you have the money, maybe for your major, since its so competetive, you should consider cuesta. i’ll be applying to cal poly this fall so we’ll see what happens next spring. (just an fyi-this coming year will be my 3rd year in junior college. since i changed my major and decided on cal poly i couldn’t do it in 2 years)</p>
<p>to greenyellow245</p>
<p>I think it is a great idea to go to a CC then transfer to Cal Poly if you are really determined to go there. I also started off at a CC (San Francisco) and I was accepted to CP, UCD, UCI, UCSB, and UCSD few years back for EE, and decided to go to your “backup school” because it was close to home and the UC title, and now I feel miserable there. So I have decided to leave UCD and go to CP this fall. You may have a slight edge when you apply if you go to Cuesta because Cuesta is in their service region.</p>
<p>Apparantly Freshman are finding out today and it appears that no one has been accepted off the waitlist. I am a transfer student so I have not heard anything yet. After seeing this thread I do not have hope that the transfer waitlist will be much different.</p>
<p>My daughter found out last night - she was not accepted off the wait list for architecture. She’s off to Cal Poly Pomona! OK - not exactly ‘off’ - we live close enough for her to live at home and commute. I think that was one of the main draws of SLO - she could go ‘away’ to school. Best of luck to all of you!</p>
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Just wonder - what’s the yield this year?</p>
<p>Not really. I have seen people posting on this site with much lower stats than my son has getting accepted into engineering, the same department as he was applying for…so there just seems to be no rhyme or reason why some people with lower stats got admitted and people with higher stats got waitlisted and then ultimately rejected…I really think it is that some of those applicants applied ED. Some of them have even admitted on this site that they would never have been accepted regular decision which is why they applied early decision.</p>
<p>Here is a few reasons why ^… DEMOGRAPHICS, ENDOWMENTS, MONEY AVAILABLE TO A PARTICULAR STUDENT BASED ON INCOME, FAMILY HISTORY WITH THE SCHOOL, SPORTS, AND ETHNICITY.</p>
<p>I thought that acceptances were all done by a computer program. Not sure about the above post. I remember a family whose child did not get in and their son was already a student at CP. I agree that ED does help some students to get in with lower stats. I also saw many students who were deferred to RD if their stats weren’t very good.</p>
<p>Most engineering students had very high stats. I saw lower stats in other majors.</p>
<p>Sorry about the rejections. It must have been a miserable wait to hear such disappointing news. I hope all turns out for the best.</p>
<p>I can’t speak to all majors, but applying early decision certainly made a difference with architecture. My daughter’s buddy with the same stats - same classes, same school, same gpa, and only about 10 points difference on total SAT score - got in ED for Arch while my daughter was waitlisted when she applied RD, then was denied this week. My word of advice for future SLO hopefuls is to go ED if at all possible.</p>
<p>That’s the biggest mistake Ive made and regret so much: not applying Early Decision. I honestly don’t know what I was thinking back then when I was applying to colleges, ughh!! I agree that applying early will make a big difference, especially if your major is very impacted. Since it’s binding, Cal Poly has a better idea of who is going to their school for sure.
Yes I’m pretty sure selection was done by a computer. Things like demographics, ethinicity, legacies, are more for private schools, maybe a little for UCs too.</p>
<p>Back in October, when I did my app, it asked if I wanted Early Decision… I flip flopped then decided no, thinking it wouldn’t make a difference.</p>