LSkaiWalk

Hi,

Well I've been here for about a year.

Posted a lot, and finally decided on what I'm going to do. This forum helped a lot. Chancing would be appreciated.


Early Decision
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Business Major
Good Public HS in LA Area

3.45 "Cal State A-G Weighted GPA"
3.33 Unweighted GPA 9-11

6 Honors Classes / 3 AP classes taken 9-12. Overall moderately hard course challenge. I only took 2 years of a foreign language and 3 years of math (10 semesters including middle school), I'm solid everywhere else, took lots of electives, and 4 years of science. So pretty good, but not super.

SAT: 1400 / 1600 (They only look at math / reading) (This is what saves me!)
M: 710 CR: 690

Pretty Good Extra Currics
Leadership

Well, that's all Cal Poly looks at haha..


I never knew about this, but our school is a "partnership" with SLO, which means that if their are 2 equal candidates, they will choose the applicant from my school apparently..

Anyways, my GPA is 10% lower than the average business major who was accepted AND attended SLO last year.

HOWEVER, my SAT is 10% higher than the average business major who was accepted AND attended SLO last year.

So, I think I'd fall in the middle, considering that I think they weight GPA / SAT the same.

However, there are budget cuts that are really going to hurt, and a bad economy where more people are going to apply to cheap schools, like SLO..

Anyways chances?? For ED?

Thanks!!

PINEMTNMAMA

On the Cal Poly website they state that there are no admission agreements with any schools. Where do you attend?

gotpeter

I have never heard of a "partnership" program with HSs. How or where did you learn this?

LSkaiWalk

I learned it when I talked to the admissions officer after the tour during the session. Yeah it's weird.. I researched it and didn't find anything online. I'd prefer for privacy reasons to not name my school.

So anyways, can I get a chance??

Cal Poly GPA: 3.43

ralph4

Apparently "partner schools" have to do with Cal Poly's attempts to increase "diversity", and students from partner school are given some advantages.

Partner schools a mentioned many times in this document:

http://diversity.calpoly.edu/pdfs/ie_inventory.pdf

LSkaiWalk

huh, interesting thanks. it sounds like partner schools are mainly the poorer schools with lots of minorities.

however, my school is quite a good school in CA. we are about 50% asian. could that be why we are a partnership school? because we are so asian??

2Leashes

I know they accept the most students out of the Bay area as compared to the Central coast (closer to SLO, etc.) I know plenty of kids who go from Santa Cruz area, though.

pioneer

Lol, because you are so "asian." Thats gotta be it!

LSkaiWalk

haha sweet. even though im white it still counts i guess?? haha

its interesting how cal poly has so little diversity.. especially because its big on engineering, you think its be pretty high with asian. i guess agriculture adds a lot of whites..

its amazing how asian the UCs are now, and yet cal poly isn't.. i think some asians deffinitely prefer the UC name because of prestige i guess, even tho cal poly is better than some UCs.

well, im glad cal poly is working on its diversity!

LSkaiWalk

anyway, im still yet to get much of a chance?? haha anyone?

gotpeter

I think you answered that yourself; ie, 50/50. Applying ED, this 'partner school' thing and your location improves your chances while the ever increasing demand for Cal Poly and its Business School combined with the CA budget crisis hurts. Good luck.

KoreanBoi92

I'm asian and I WANT to be a SLO,haha.

pinkvgirl

wait...i'm pretty sure location isn't being taken into consideration this year

gotpeter

pinkvgirl, where did you learn that?