<p>Congratulations to all of the accepted students. Particularly those who were disappointed by the Cal Poly decision I am happy for you and I don’t want to take away from the accepted student’s thread but my D w/ a 4.04 UC gpa who has taken nothing but a-g requirements until this year was not accepted. I am shocked. Her SAT was 1270/1600 her SATII 690 Bio and 580 USH. The test scores don’t set the world on fire or anything but she and I were both very shocked that she was not accepted. </p>
<p>This isn’t a pity party post at all. This same D was accepted in CPSLO and has always been more likely to attend there so I am a bit dumbfounded is all and wondering if I’m alone in my confusion.</p>
<p>Like others have said before, college admissions are a crapshoot. There’s simply more qualified people than there are open positions, so there’s always going to be someone who won’t get in for no reason other than bad luck.</p>
<p>Hope she does well in SLO and her other colleges</p>
<p>Nothing wrong at all with Cal Poly, I have a number of good friends going there now, and a few more already committed this year (without even waiting for UC’s, kinda strange).
All my friends currently at the school love it, and your daughter should be very proud of that.</p>
<p>Plus, as r31ncarnat3d said, it is always a bit of a crapshoot, especially now with budgetary problems hurting enrollment, and with 09 being on the tail end of the huge growth in applications.</p>
<p>Dunno, historymom. Last year there was a couple of posters on cc who were rejected by Davis and they had even higher stats than your D, all of which I would have anticipated being accepted. Perhaps essay & ECs didn’t score enough points to counter the test scores. Or perhaps, the UCs are gonna limit Frosh enrollment: 1) no college can predict yield in today’s enviroment; 2) transfer apps might be up (and they have no where else to go); and/or 3) Davis over-enrolled three years ago, really cramping the dorms, so it may still percolating through,</p>
<p>It is actually not a crapshoot or random or holistic. There is a point based formula and then anyone who meets the cutoff or higher is accepted. These methods include various social engineering and desirable traits in the formula, such as hours of community service, hardship, taking a much higher number of a-g courses than the minimum, and similar. Sounds like your daughter didn’t fit these various uplifts and thus needed a higher gpa and sat than others who were accepted based in part on these other factors. Once again - point score assessed, cutoff picked for the year for the major, then the admission decision is a pure comparison between the two. </p>
<p>Historymom, I’m shocked at your D’s rejection from UCD, particularly in the light of her other acceptances. S was rejected, and while his test scores are higher, his GPA was much lower. Fortunately, your D has other good options, but that is a scary indicator for students who didn’t cast a wide net outside of UC’s.</p>
<p>Same here, historymom. Denied at Davis, admitted at CPSLO (applied ED). Davis was my “close” 2nd choice. Both are great schools in similar rural, college-town environments. I’d be happy at either school, but SLO was/is my first choice so I’m not that disappointed. I’m sure your daughter will love it there. And you’ll go absolutely crazy trying to figure out the admission process…</p>
<p>Thanks all: cpeltz and crunch<em>time appreciate the commiseration especially crunch</em>time what is your declared major at CPSLO?</p>
<p>Yeah I know it’s a crap shoot and we had looked at the formula linked above. Her ECs are good essays maybe a little weak but it’s all OK really. She has some brilliant options!</p>
<p>you can take heart that essay quality had nothing to do with the negative decision. UCD only scans the essay for traits and conditions that warrant points. Each school has its own type of student they want (or types) and in this case, CalPoly thought you daughter a great fit while UCD was looking for something different.</p>
<p>I just checked online…
“We have carefully reviewed your records and regret that we cannot offer you admission to UC Davis.”
And I just applied undeclared…</p>
<p>Stupid mychances. net gave me a 98.2% acceptance for Davis.</p>
<p>With Stats like these, I am surprised you were not selected. Perhaps you should consider contacting the university. I know of other who did so two years ago and indeed, a mistake had been made. By the time they realized it, the damage had been done and the applicant decided to go elsewhere.</p>
<p>By crapshoot, I mean lots of kids being around the same level of points, yet only some of them getting in due to space/major/whatever restrictions.</p>
<p>Just being above the point cutoff doesn’t guarantee admission, especially during a year where a bunch of kids are applying, and a lot of them are wedged into the same statistical bracket.</p>
<p>"By crapshoot, I mean lots of kids being around the same level of points, yet only some of them getting in due to space/major/whatever restrictions.</p>
<p>Just being above the point cutoff doesn’t guarantee admission, especially during a year where a bunch of kids are applying, and a lot of them are wedged into the same statistical bracket."</p>
<p>If that’s true, would it be wise for people to apply to a major that is technically “easier” to get in? I don’t really understand how people are trying to play the system that way, but I would like to understand what the whole space/major restriction thing does for admits.</p>
crunch</em>time what is your declared major at CPSLO?</p>