Sora000

Well SDSU had 61,000 applicants for 7,000 spots.

Cal Poly had 35,000 applicants for >5,000 spots. So SDSU will have a lower acceptance rate because they have almost double the applicants, but not double the amount of spots. Make sense?

Svenfold

Sure it's for 7,000 spots in SDSU, but keep in mind they will acept around 20k given that most kids will not be attending SDSU.

collegemom16

"SDSU had an 11.4% acceptance rate"

Hahahahahahahaha so now SDSU is suddenly as selective as Harvard. You left out that they ACCEPT way more students than actually enroll there.

slophil3

Collegemom16 seems to forget that the 11 percent acceptance rate means ACCEPTANCE RATE, not enrollment rate. when they have a certain amount of slots open, CSU's fill those slots with people they accepted. Based on the college, like Cal Poly SLO for example, they will admit a varying amount of more people than slot.

In Poly's case, they admit very few more and waitlist a few thousand more, because most people that get admitted to Cal Poly enroll there(They're not the #1 rated public undergrad engineering school in California for nothing).

Personally, I got declined with a 3.57 gpa with a 1330 CSU SAT(640 reading, 690 math).

So yes, their acceptance rates are much, much lower this year, and al least in Poly's case, can be compared to Harvard.

Cali Trumpet

No Slophil3, you are the idiot.

She clearly corrected the poster who thought the acceptance rate was 11.4%. Learn to read. The acceptance rate this year is like 45% ish. They expect more than half of the students accepted to not go there, because they will go to a UC or private school. Its not like SLO is Heaven and everyone aspires to go there like you do.

And by the way, they waitlisted 600, not "a few thousand more." Get your facts right. Also, you cannot say that SLO has the top engineering program in California. Again, stay away from your fantasies. As far as Engineering schools go, yeah it is up there, but not #1. If you were to look at US NEWS rankings, SLO is ranked number 2 in California for "non-doctoral schools" Behind Harvey-Mudd. If you were to compared it to the other Engineering programs in California, CAL and Stanford are clearly above it.

You got declined with fairly average Stats as my friend with a 4.0 CSU gpa and higher Sat scores than you got declined as well.

And Harvard is not what you compare Slo to since Harvard is not only a private University, but not known for its Engineering Program. A better comparison is Cal and Stanford.

So thank you for pointing out your ignorance, as it was great fun for me to comment on.

saabicia@comcast

For Slophil3 -
Step 1: Firmly take hold of foot
Step 2: Bend knee towards chest
Step 3: Place foot in mouth
Step 4: Hold for at least a week because you just got owned

kp.eric

LOL!!! slophil3 = owned.

collegemom16

Thanks Cali Trumpet.

soccerchick11

hahaha i love you alicia

soo funny!

archileta

SDSU had an 11.4% acceptance rate for their 2007-2008 admissions. They recieved 61,000 apllicants and accepted only 7,000.

that isn't exactly correct, first of all, the only group that has reported 61,000 applicants is sdsu themselves, every other institution i have found reports that ucla had the record number of applications this year with 55,000, so clearly people are either igoring sdsu's claim to the record number of applicants, or they are merging their transfers, graduate, and undergraduate applications all into one number or something to that nature

if you can find another source other than sdsu that cites that there were 61,000 first time undergraduate applicants, please let me know

second of all, they are anticipating about 7000 to enroll... they didn't accept only 7,000

if you take a look at the student population, there are around 30,000 undergrads, divide that by 4 classes plus any people going into their 5th and 6th years, you will get 7,000 students per class, so they are right on target for this year compared to the size of any other class that sdsu has had

make sure you get your numbers and percentages right...


*Edit* I clearly jumped straight to the quick reply without reading on to see other people ridiculing this statement. Sorry for being repetitive.

Sora000

Can the flaming please end here. There is no reason to get this steamed about some misunderstandings with the numbers. This is supposed to be a nice place to discuse colleges, not a place for people to belittle others;
ex: "So thank you for pointing out your ignorance, as it was great fun for me to comment on." and "owned"

archileta's post is actually informative and explains the misunderstanding clearly. Cali Trumpet, your post may give much of the same information but there is no reason for you to call people idiot or ignorant.

Back on topic: I will bet that if SDSU is giving an acurate number count, they will actually have a lower acceptance rate than poly. This of course does not merit the school any higher than poly.

Cali Trumpet

Go ahead and read Slophil's post. He/she stated "Collegemom is an idiot." He started the war, not me. He is a 'new user.' However, I imagine since he never posted again, he probably made a new account or was a CC regular and just wanted to be mean to collegemom, for an unknown reason. Slophil is a new user and clearly uninformed about SDSU, so making numerous strong erroneous statements was a measure of his ignorance.

If the user simply posted, "I don’t understand what everyone means by the acceptance rate being 44%" that would be okay. It would also be okay to mention his many other fallacies, but it is not okay to call another regular user an idiot. And by starting his post that way, he stated very clearly that he did not deserve the respect I give every poster on this forum, whether that person is right or wrong in the statements that were made.

For the record, Archileta's post was days after mine. Archileta even stated in an edit that he/she noticed the confusion was already settled and that his comments were repetitive. Arch answered the specific question of the acceptance rate, as did I, but I posted out of defense for collegemom, not because I really cared about any misconception of the yield rate at SLO. Heck, I did not even apply nor did I want to go to SLO. I am just not a big fan of flamers, or users backing up flamers.

So, thank you Sora for allowing me to defend myself, and further pointing out Slophil's ignorance.

Sora000

Ah I do stand corrected on the count of slophil calling collegemom and idiot (i have never been partial to reading those title heads =)

Regardless of who started the name calling however, if you are really going to stand on a moral ground and defend collegemoms honor, do it intelligently and without the denegrating words used by those those lesser posters than yourself. I do have respect for your stance Cali Trumpet, but there is no need to perpetuate what slophil began. It makes the us all look bad when these things begin. And I would apprecite the same respect back...

Cali Trumpet

Sora,

I did not mean to 'perpetuate what Slophil began.' When reading my original post, the only thing that stands out is calling Slophil an idiot. This was a pointed remark in response to him calling a poster the same thing. It was not a name calling contest to me as you are implying. It was more of Slophil: Collegemom, your an idiot! Me: No Slophil, you are the one that got it wrong, so that makes you the idiot. I think it is pretty obvious that his remark was out of air and had the intent to defame a poster, whereas my comment had a symbolic reference to the way he addressed a poster and then made many incorrect comments.

All and all, I agree I probably should have not even reponded to the comments this user said. He has not come back so he probably just made a new account and went with that.

Sora000

Amen ^____^