<p>^ You should submit SIR to one school as if you don’t get into CalPoly. In July, if you DO get in CalPoly and intend to enroll, notify the school you submit SIR, you might loose your deposit there, but check with the college. I’m not sure if they would return deposit due to waitlisting in another school</p>
<p>What? July? Thats WAY far off. I thought it was May.</p>
<p>I think the timeline for transfers is different than the timeline for freshmen, July vs. May.</p>
<p>Received the snail mail version of the waitlist info - Additional openings may begin to be filled after May 15th.</p>
<p>Where do you live? Im still waiting for my letter. :/</p>
<p>Rosic1863: What do you mean if you lived in a certain location and had the stats you got in? you mean, they partially based the admittance on where you lived? That is crazy and totally unfair!</p>
<p>SF East Bay.</p>
<p>This is what I think. The state of California, in its infinite wisdom, has screwed up this state. What used to be excellent, affordable education for all has turned into excellent education for only a few…We pay taxes so our kids can attend these great universities in this state, and yet even with excellent statitistics they cannot get into the universities…So we are forced to apply to out of state schools and private uiniversitites, who are more than willing to take our money and out of state tution. I have already told my younger son who is a sophomore to look out of state for his future university choice…I am extremely disappointed in the state of the education system in California…</p>
<p>I live in the East Bay too…and I didnt get the letter yet -___-</p>
<p>I got it today.</p>
<p>waitlisted (aka rejection)
CC business transfer
3.88 gpa
I talked to admissions for a while today and they said that it’s very unlikely they’ll be accepting off the waitlist this fall due to higher numbers of competetive applicants. If ANY applicants are accepted off the waitlist, you have a better chance at winning the lotto. If you have other options CONSIDER THEM and dont wait around for SLO to eventually send you that rejection letter.</p>
<p>^^^^^^</p>
<p>yeah i heard the same thing</p>
<p>3.67 bus admin transfer waitlisted</p>
<p>SDSU here i come :(</p>
<p>Transfer student, 3.79 Psychology major. I fulfilled all of the requirements and then extra. My friend’s aunt works in the admissions office and said they received almost 45,000 applications and are only accepting 5,000. Also, she said they’re getting calls every day from students saying they got accepted to Brown and Princeton and other big schools, but didn’t get into Cal Poly. I haven’t heard that Cal Poly is giving priority to surrounding county students like some schools do. I live 20 mins away and I still got waitlisted, but who knows? ALSO, I have tons of friends and family members that have full-ride scholorships for Cal Poly to play sports, and they have the bare minimum GPAs. Crazy, crazy, crazy.</p>
<p>That is crazy! I think Cal Poly is making a mistake by not accepting more transfer students with such high GPAs. It shows your hard work and ability to do well. I agree that it is frustrating to have students who are accepted based on sports only. Hopefully those are not many. </p>
<p>I hope you get in when all of the final decisions are made. Best of luck!</p>
<p>Crazy. My son was admitted to Cal Poly and has one more year to go after this. He is in Mechanical Engineering and is on the 5 year plan, which is quite typical. My daughter had a much higher GPA and somewhat higher SATs, including an 800 in Math. Boy, was she upset when she received a rejection letter. She, too, wanted to go into the ME department. My wife and I have lived and paid a lot of taxes in this state for over 30 years. But, when it comes to making use of what was supposed to be one of the benefits of living in this state, we get the one finger salute from Cal Poly.</p>
<p>Cal Poly is always asking for the parents of current students to contribute money to their “parent’s fund”. I have contributed in the past. Pity the next person to call me and ask for money, they’ll get an earfull instead. Looks like my money will be going to an out of state private school, and that ain’t cheap. Still haven’t heard back from the UC’s, but I’m not holding my breath.</p>
<p>I appreciate the financial situation that has caused all these problems, am just not real happy about it right now. Seems to me that it would have been prudent to keep an endowment fund like the private schools do and/or have the state maintain the funding level. If you want the economy to keep going, an educated work force must be a priority. Cutting the funding to the state schools (and the local schools) is a travesty that the people of California will be paying for for many years. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, one of my daughter’s teammates is a 2.5 GPA student but a star athlete. She’s already accepted to UCSB with a full ride. The over/under on her staying in school is about a year and half.</p>
<p>So, I guess the bottom line is hit the gym, not the library.</p>
<p>Upset, you bet I am. And you should hear my wife.</p>
<p>You have every right to be upset! You wanted your daughter to go to the school you have been supporting and happy with for your son. </p>
<p>I totally agree with you about the star athletes getting into colleges that they are not qualified for. very frustrating! </p>
<p>Cal Poly was incredibly competitive this year and ME was one of the toughest. I have heard that several UCs will be easier to get into than CP in some of the more impacted majors. It just was a crazy year where students applied to a huge number of schools and CP was a very popular one. The state of the economy has a lot of people scared and the CSU system saw an increase in applicants. Even though the cost has gone up, it is more affordable than a UC. </p>
<p>I hope your daughter gets into another school that she would like to attend. The whole public school system in California is struggling. It is a mess and your daughter and family got screwed because of it! So sorry!</p>
<p>I totally agree with you both! My son had a 4.0 GPA, ACT of 31 and a Math score on the ACT of 35, and he applied to Cal Poly for aerospace engineering. He too got waitlisted. I guess he should be happy he didn’t get rejected outright, but he might as well have. He will not get in anyway. Look at the postings on this site, and see how many students with not as high STATS were accepted. I think a lot of students who wanted Cal Poly as their number one first choice applied early decision, and since a lot of them were qualified, they were accepted. Which left very little room for anyone else. Yes, it is a very competitive year with a lot of applications, but still, we pay taxes in this state and we should be able to have our students attend these schools. Luckily for us, Cal Poly is not my son’s first choice. What is his first choice is an out of state school which will cost us a lot of money. He is waiting the acceptance decisions on the UC’S he applied to and I have a feeling he will be accepted by them but not by Cal Poly, which is a total joke…
I hope your daughter gets into another school where she is happy. I know she will… Please let us know where she ends up!</p>
<p>Rousse54: I think you are forgetting that cal poly accepts based on majors, which is why people with lower stats were accepted.</p>
<p>also, you seems to underestimate cal poly when you say your son is “waiting the acceptance decisions on the UC’S he applied to and I have a feeling he will be accepted by them but not by Cal Poly, which is a total joke…”</p>
<p>Cal Poly is about the equivalent of schools like UCI, UCSB, and UC Davis. Their engineering department is better than most UC schools, so to say your son will get accepted to a UC but not cal poly is not “a total joke…”</p>
<p>I understand ur frustrated and I apologize</p>
<p>also, i dont want to seem like im attacking you because im not, i just would like to get the facts straight</p>
<p>My wife called the admissions department today and got some information. The numbers my wife relayed to me don’t seem to jive with other numbers from past year’s stats that Cal Poly has published, so I won’t quote them and get bad info out there. Either that or they are rediculously down. But suffice to say that their apps were up somewhat but their acceptance rate was way, way down. I assume it was from budget cuts. </p>
<p>Contrary to what seems to be popular opinion, the admissions department told my wife that, although admissions are done by department, the cut off for admission was pretty much the same for all areas of engineering. She didn’t ask about engineering verses other areas and there could be some differences there. Looks like Cal Poly is still viewing the SAT scores as the older version of the numbers as the admission person told my wife the cutoff for engineering was about a 4.1 GPA and 1400 SAT, which I assume to be math plus reading (ignoring the writing). So my daughter missed it by only a very little.</p>
<p>hm. I have a good friend who got into electrical engineering with a 4.1 but a 1250 (CR+M) so if you mean the cutoff as 4.1 OR a 1400 SAT.</p>
<p>The last Common Data Set I could find for CP was for 2008-2009.</p>
<p>For that particular year they put 440 on the waitlist, and ultimately admitted 115. </p>
<p>What I don’t see is just how many additional applicants from the 440 were later accepted but chose not to enroll at CP.</p>