<p>rickross92519 Thank you so much for the info. It truly helps to hear from those who have experienced it. The up side of going out of state is that they should be able to graduate in 4 years. My son at CP will more than likely graduate in 41/2 to 5 years. CP is better than most CSU or UCs as far as getting your classes,but it can still be difficult at times.</p>
<p>Looks like another day of silence from Admissions. I’m so disappointed in this process. I understand it may be the norm for CP, but it’s just tragic for the kids and their families!</p>
<p>I agree that CA is not investing in it’s schools, however, it’s not because the taxpayers aren’t coughing up enough money. Californian’s are said be #3 of 50 for overall highest taxed in the nation. Our state is choosing to spend that money on other things.</p>
<p>I’m a California native and I had high hopes for our California schools when my older son went through this process. He is now a Junior – Purdue Engineering. My younger child is going through this process right now (and she did ultimately get in to Cal Poly), but she fell in love with University of Oregon. Many of these out of state schools can compete toe to toe with what CA has to offer and they are SO MUCH easier to get in to. These out of state schools are also offering scholarships to kids with high stats (the one’s that CA is sending away in droves).</p>
<p>I think we Californian’s deserve better for all the taxes we pay, like expansion of the UC/CSU systems, etc. It’s so heartbreaking to hear about the kids with 4.0’s getting turned away.</p>
<p>@bonbon113, UC was expanded to Merced. How well is that working out? You are fortunate you can afford Oregon; we can’t. And @CDSMOM, I agree this is a tough process, but calling it “tragic” is a bit of hyperbole. Let’s remember there are lots of things that are really tragic.</p>
<p>@GoldenWest check out merit scholarships at UofO -
<a href=“Presidential Scholarship | Financial Aid & Scholarships”>http://financialaid.uoregon.edu/uo_presidential_scholarship</a>
They do offer some generous scholarships for high stats.</p>
<p>I do know about those, and thank you; unfortunately, my kid is one of those high test scores, middling GPA types.</p>
<p>For those of you considering the U of O, as I mentioned before, my son is graduating from there in June. In order to reduce overall cost, for his first two years, he registered for the minimal full time credits at Oregon and took quite a few online GE classes from our local JC. The OOS tuition at Oregon is about $450 a credit. He could have graduated a quarter early, but decided to stay the last quarter. He also took summer classes at our JC. He will be graduating on time.</p>
<p>High performing students get a merit scholarship of $8000. There is an interesting Honors College option and other honors programs. My D has been invited to the a College Scholars program which leads to an honors degree. We have also found the private schools in the PNW to be very generous with merit aid and I suspect my D will select one of those. </p>
<p>Thank you rickross92519. That is good information. I really appreciate you sharing that info. I do feel bad for kids that would like to attend an oos school like the U of O but it is financially not possible for them. I keep reminding my 3 kids in college that having the “college experience” is a privilege. It’s not necessary. They need to do their part too. They can stay home go to Community College and than transfer to a UC or go to the local State University and get a quality education. </p>
<p>My D is one of the solid stats – 4.0+ GPA, 30 ACT, Bio – that hasn’t heard and will likely not be accepted, or so it seems. The bad news is she wanted to attend Cal Poly (Dad is an alum, relatively close to home). The good news is – and the irony – she has a 50% tuition scholarship (and will likely join their HONORS college) to a very good OOS private school based on her “HIGH ACHIEVEMENT”! (All of the caps aren’t to promote her, they are pointing out the irony of who gets accepted or not in this convoluted Cal Poly process.) That $$ support makes this very, very nice private school within a reasonable price difference to Cal Poly and about the same as UCs and she can get out in 4 years AND get out of CA to see the how the rest of this country works! While this advice is too late for this crowd, any others reading who have this in front of them should not dismiss OOS PRIVATE schools because of cost. They have lots of merit money and they give it out generously. BTW, she also got decent merit scholarship money from an OOS PUBLIC school…again, not sharing this to promote her, but to show what Cal Poly sees and accepts and what other schools see and accept are vastly different…and not very logical. </p>
<p>@terriw you are completely right on. I have a senior D and a junior D…I really wish I had known more with my older D through this process that I now know for my junior D. There are so many options and opportunities out there for students, it just takes some research.</p>
<p>I emailed SLO about the admissions, first response was>>Thank you for your email. Notifications have already been sent out on a rolling basis. We have until April 1st to let out all admissions decisions. Please check your Student Center through your My Cal Poly Portal. Have a great day!</p>
<p>Then I suggested that they post an update on their website and this was the response>>>That is a great recommendation! I will send it over to our communications unit. Have a great day and thank you for the kind words!</p>
<p>I just think the kids/parents (and crazy parents like me) would appreciate seeing from SLO website that it is still an on going process. I hope they do post an update of sorts on their admissions page.</p>
<p>I have a little mini parent-rant. Yesterday my daughter was in class, commiserating with another student who is also waiting to hear from SLO, when another classmate interrupted them to say, “Wow, you haven’t heard from SLO yet? I already got in, and the funny thing is, I don’t even want to go there!”. </p>
<p>REALLY??? What a mean and hurtful thing to say! I felt terrible for my daughter when she told me what happened. Especially since she DOES want to go to SLO, and it’s always been her #1. Kids can be so mean to each other!</p>
<p>End of rant.</p>
<p>@CDSMOM - hopefully, that “kid” already hit the decline button…</p>
<p>@CDSMOM that’s awful!!! What a brat! My heart goes out to your daughter; this whole process has been very frustrating! Although my daughter is one of the lucky ones who was accepted when in-state notifications started going out, there are many kids at her school (several in our top 20 (4%) out of 500+ students) who have yet to hear. I can only imagine how awful that feeling of not knowing must be.</p>
<p>One thing I learned when my son went through this 4 years ago, college admissions decisions sometimes appear to be random, which can be very frustrating. I truly believe that the kids all ultimately end up where they’re supposed to be; he’s at what was originally his #2 (Davis), will graduate in June (getting out in 4 years!), and can’t imagine having gone anywhere else. That being said, I think Cal Poly could definitely do a better job of notifying everyone all at once. The way things have been handled just adds more anxiety to a process that is already way too stressful! Best of luck to your daughter!</p>
<p>@rickross92519, thanks for that information. I would be interested in learning more about how that option might work, with taking fewer classes at U of O. I assumed when you see tuition figures listed that that amount is pretty much set, not per unit. I will look into that. The irony is, if my kid was one of the “high stat” kids getting the OOS scholarship from them, then we would be much more confident about her options here in CA at a UC.</p>
<p>Here, here! Right now we are at an out of state private university admitted student event. They were incredibly generous with merit aid. I am not sure if she will choose to attend this college but it would be a fabulous choice. Lots of one on one attention, research opportunities and internships. It’s my first choice but, hey, I’m not the one going. </p>
<p>I copied and pasted this from Cal Poly website’</p>
<p>March 7 Fall 2014 Regular Decision Freshman, Transfer and International students who have accepted their offer of admission can apply for Fall 2014 Housing online through their Cal Poly portal account (my.calpoly.edu), select the “Housing” tab and then select “Housing Application System.”</p>
<p>Also some very interesting information from @gotoslo on the other thread on page 102 posted at 3:01 & 3:09. Thanks for posting this, seems like the most honest response anyone has gotten from the CP admission office to date. </p>
<p>For those of you considering Oregon State…it was a top contender for S last year. Their engineering program is different than SLO in that you apply for admissions in your junior year, after completion of GE’s and prerequisites.
We toured and found the administration, students and faculty we met to be friendly and extremely helpful. S had been admitted to the honors college and did receive rather substantial aid which would have made OSU on par with CP. </p>
<p>They have great internship programs for engineering and a very unique year abroad program in Germany. Yes, it rains, but Corvallis is a great and supportive student town. (S is hecka tired of the sun 24/7 at his college).</p>
<p>The SLO selection process is increasing frustrating - the push for diversity began in earnest 2011. SLO has been accused of not being diverse enough for at least the past decade. </p>
<p>@GoldenWest I believe the minimum units needed for full time at U of O is 12 to be able to stay in the dorms. OOS tuition is actually now $629 per unit. Here is the equivalency chart for transfer classes from various JCs, not sure if all of Calif is included here <a href=“Transfer Credits | Office of the Registrar”>Transfer Credits | Office of the Registrar; to help plan. They also update your child’s record very quickly for transfer credits when you send a transcript in, this is important for registration at Oregon because the more units your student has, the earlier registration time they will get.</p>