why doesnt any JC students think about transfering to cal poly SLO?

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Azotic- Are all of CP SLO's programs impacted? It seems that every college in the university has more applications than spots and has much higher avg. gpa/SAT than required. Even in liberal arts, the acceptance rate is close to 25%.</p>

<p>Aviva- Here's a list of grad schools that have accepted cal poly students in the health professions. Looks like these CSU students still get into good grad schools.

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wheres the list lol</p>

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<p>LOL. I keep forgetting that copying and pasting requires the pasting part. Here it is:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.calpoly.edu/%7Ecosamac/health/acceptance.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.calpoly.edu/~cosamac/health/acceptance.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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I read in a magazine article once that while a high GPA is a significant deciding factor, it still depends where you got that GPA (especially for law school - heck, even what UC you go to may be a deciding factor). For example, a 3.5 at a UC is more likely to get in to graduate school than a 3.8 at a CSU with everything else even. Has anyone else heard or read about this?</p>

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<p>I don't think going to CSU will matter much in the case of law school either... only grades and LSATs matter much at most schools, except for a few top ones.</p>

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Azotic- Are all of CP SLO's programs impacted?

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<p>I didn't know the answer to this until you asked, but yes.</p>

<p>From their website:</p>

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Q. Which majors at Cal Poly are currently impacted?
A. All Cal Poly majors are impacted. Cal Poly is an oversubscribed campus, and the term "impacted" means that more applications are received than there are spaces available. Please note, applicants are evaluated for admission through a point-based system that scores and ranks them against other students applying for the same major, applicants "compete" to be selected. Therefore, the difficulty level involved in an applicant being selected for admission is determined by whom the applicant applies against for a specific major for any quarter.

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<p>That said, you can probably get into many majors at Cal Poly SLO even if you don't have good enough grades to qualify for UC schools... you'll just have to do enough better than the basic CSU qualifications to get in. High-demand majors like engineering are obviously the exception in their case.</p>

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I read in a magazine article once that while a high GPA is a significant deciding factor, it still depends where you got that GPA

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<p>My point was that while that CAN make a difference (for example, a high GPA from Stanford is often not as well thought of as the same GPA from ANY UC school, because of specific grading policies at Stanford that tend to make their grades highly inflated), you can often entirely overcome any such concerns just by doing interesting and relevant things during your summers and earning good test scores.</p>

<p>A graduate from a CSU school with excellent subject GRE scores, excellent grades, and one or two summers of research at other institutions that led to first-rate recommendations will have no problem stepping past all the UC applicants without those things going for them. (And, really, if grad school is where you want to go, you should have those things on your record no matter what school you attend anyway.)</p>

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<p>Thanks, azotic.</p>