<p>Graduated from high school in 2005. Applied for (and was admitted, and now attending) the computer science major.</p>
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<li> GPA = 4.0 (unweighted), 4.06 (weighted; my school didn't offer a lot of AP courses). During my high school career, I also took 7 courses at a local community college (3 Spanish courses, 1 chemistry course, and 3 computer science courses) and earned A's in all seven of those courses. Community college courses aren't weighted. I was ranked #1 of my class (of 117 students).</li>
<li> SAT = 570 (verbal), 570 (math)
MATH IIC = 580
Writing = 600
Biology = 640
AP US History = 4
My ECs included volunteering at a montessori school for 3 years (clerical work, tutoring students from 2nd grade through 8th grade, yard duty, etc.), math tutoring at my high school for a year, attending a private Japanese language school for two years every Saturday, and doing private geometry tutoring for 2 months.</li>
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<li> I know some engineering students who were forced to start at MATH 141 (either because they haven't had calculus, or because they failed the AP test) and are doing fine now. Getting MATH 141 and 142 out of the way really helps your career at Cal Poly, but starting at MATH 141 doesn't break you. Now, starting at MATH 118 (or MATH 116) is a different story, as it places you behind.</li>
<li> About your comment about female and minority admissions, Cal Poly doesn't look at race or gender in admissions. Proposition 209 affected the CSU system as well as the UC system. So, being a minority doesn't affect your chances of admission at any public university in California.</li>
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<p>hey- does community service hours required by your school look as good on apps as doing it on your own initiative (because Im gonna have over 125 hours by the time i apply- but then again so will everybody else from my school because it was all required) do colleges treat mandatory-volunteering as inferior?</p>
<p>Sure they dont look at race and gender in admissions...(they may not officially, but there is a lot circumstancial evidence to suspect otherwise.)</p>
<p>As for not getting into Math 142, your probably right, if you work hard you can definatly make it, and I know there are definatly some people who did well on the AP Test and just wanted to get a refresher (So they did well). For people who have never experienced calculus, the chances at success are slim. (I just havent seen very many people make it from there), but the people that have started there generally end up behind on there flow charts.</p>
<p>Lol... getting far ahead in any subject as you can soon enough will help alot. Its almost impossible to graduate in 4 years if you want a social life. Well, I guess its very plausible to graduate in 4 and have a social life if you take school during the summer session.</p>
<p>Almost all of those stats have SAT score from 2 years ago when the new test was not required yet. Can I have some recent SAT score of people who got accepted recently?</p>
<p>Actually I just attended a Cal Poly admissions session and they do in fact take your GPA and refigure it into a Cal Poly GPA which is different than the UC GPA. In it they will include all A-G courses from freshman through junior year. Additionally any community college course is treated as an AP course (remember 1 semester = 1 year of a high school course) Everything is done on a 5.0 scale so all honors, AP and community college courses count for extra. They also include the advanced course work you took in junior high school such as algebra, geometry, and foreign language.</p>
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Actually I just attended a Cal Poly admissions session and they do in fact take your GPA and refigure it into a Cal Poly GPA which is different than the UC GPA. In it they will include all A-G courses from freshman through junior year. Additionally any community college course is treated as an AP course (remember 1 semester = 1 year of a high school course) Everything is done on a 5.0 scale so all honors, AP and community college courses count for extra. They also include the advanced course work you took in junior high school such as algebra, geometry, and foreign language.
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Interesting... Though I clearly remember it being 10th-11th grade only. That's what they asked for when we had to calculate our gpa and type it in the application form.</p>