<p>In some cases, the community colleges model their courses on a nearby state university for transfer purposes. For example, some community colleges near Berkeley have physics courses modeled after Berkeley physics courses; these community college physics courses cover more material than the physics courses found at some of the less selective state universities. So it is not a given that community college courses will be lacking compared those at the less selective four year universities that still have open application periods.</p>
<p>However, a student who is super advanced in a subject like math may, however, find that community college is limiting if s/he wants to take junior and senior level courses as a freshman or sophomore. Introductory computer science curricula do vary considerably, so transferring courses may be more of an issue in that subject than subjects like math and physics.</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO says that “level of applicant’s interest” is “not considered” in freshman admissions (common data set section C7).</p>
<p>It could very well be that the major the OP applied for at Cal Poly SLO is very popular this year, and/or the school has had to reduce capacity due to budget cuts.</p>
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Maybe that just means that they don’t consider if you have done a campus visit and such.</p>
<p>The Calif publics are very sensitive to low income situations so they understand that many can’t visit various campuses.</p>
<p>I don’t think it means that they aren’t concerned about yield and they think the student may go elsewhere.</p>
<p>I don’t know if it means that once you’re waitlisted that they won’t take “interest” into acct…it would seem logical at that point to consider interest.</p>
<p>Cal Poly accepts students almost entirely on GPA and Test scores, although GPA can be boosted by a difficult class load, but I believe they top it out at 4.3 not very high. Only other items are a slight bonus for activities in their major and work in their major, but I was told it had a slight effect. Whether you visit or not, seemed overqualified or not, or any other things the UC’s, privates, and ivy’s look at make no difference. My son was admitted early decision and applied only there, UCSB (named Regent), Berkeley and UCLA. One other thing the admission’s director repeatedly stated was that many many make mistakes on their applications. It might not seem difficult, but to be absolutely sure we did it right we called numerous times and discovered he needed to include classes he took as a 7th grader (Algebra, Geometry and French), and including his CC courses was complicated too. I suggest you call and see if by any chance there was a mistake and maybe since waitlisted you can get it corrected. Also at Cal Poly last year they had 3% or 4% more students attend than they expected so this year’s class will be smaller making it even harder to get in. Do not know stats from other California schools.</p>
<p>Cal Poly and other CSUs admit by major, so some majors may be much more selective than others.</p>
<p>The CSU and UC GPA calculation gives +1 for honors and AP courses, but only up to 8 semesters’ worth within the 10th and 11th grades that grades are used to calculate the GPA. Effective maximum is 4.3 to 4.4, assuming that students take 20 to 24 semesters’ worth of academic courses in 10th and 11th grades.</p>
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<p>Could there also be capacity reductions due to budget cuts, if reducing capacity saves enough easily variable costs (in-state tuition subsidy, financial aid, adjunct faculty)?</p>
<p>My stats:
SAT: 2100
SAT II: Math Level II-790, Chemistry-770
UW GPA: 4.0
W. GPA: 4.5
First generation applicant</p>
<p>Guys, guys, thanks for all your help. I got a UCLA engineering likely (not sure, but according to cc, it is), so things are sort of looking up. But I still don’t have a saftey…lol, I should be more worried. My parents were freaking out lol</p>
<p>As a one time student of a UC, and current CC student looking to transfer, I can say that a motivated student at CC can easily get into a top school. Many schools mostly consider GPA and major-prep course for transfer admission. This means that it is significantly easier to get into those schools as a transfer vs. a high schooler. </p>
<p>Moral: if you don’t get in elsewhere, a good CC would be a good option.</p>
<p>YOU WILL BE FINE. Your so called safety was cal poly. No one is a shew in there. Keep your head up. I guarantee you will get into a school that you want to go to.</p>
<p>wish i’d known this earlier!! i got waitlisted at american with a 4.5 and 2040… idk i didn’t want to go there anyway so i guess they were right in their decision. take this as a warning children.</p>