I'm an EE major at Cal Poly. I applied for transfer last year with a 3.68 GPA and not even 1 circuits class completed.
My friend, from the same CC I transferred from, applied this year for ME with a 3.7 GPA and much more coursework done than me. She just got rejected.
Cal Poly is in the process of rebuilding their UU and just built the nation's largest on-campus apartment complex (which I'm currently living in). I imagine that the cost of these projects, combined with the economic state has pretty much brought acceptance chances down to luck. Everyone seriously applying has a a reasonably high GPA, but not everyone can be taken. It's definitely pretty sad that people who deserve a Cal Poly education are being denied it because of the year they happened to apply.
Anyway, if you get rejected from Cal Poly, I'd head to Long Beach for number 2; if you're only looking for CSUs, that is. Long Beach is actually superior to Pomona in their engineering programs, if I recall correctly.
I tacked on the "If I recall correctly" for a reason. I'm not positive about the rankings. I believe CSU LB scores higher overall as a public undergrad university, and I believe that, at least when I was checking before applying in 2008, LB beats out some of Pomona's engineering programs. I definitely don't believe the discrepancy is as large as your US News link would imply. Once I got accepted to SLO, of course, my interest in keeping current with college rankings declined a bit.
My son got into Cal Poly ED General Engineering. We were told that was the way to get into Cal Poly.Most of the Engineering majors are impacted so apply to General.We followed their advice and he got in. GPA 4.1 ACT 29
I got rejected too ): ):
I've never gotten a rejection letter before LOOOL. So it feels kind of weird right now...
But at the same time this is the 3rd result I've gotten back so I should be prepared to have way more since I applied to 10+ schools LOOOL.
CSU GPA: 3.4 ):
SAT I: 1850
ECs: Quite a lot
Major: Psychology
Aiyah
Replies to: Rejected for ME
GPA - 3.7 UW/ 4.0 W
SAT - 1450/2130
Accepted at UCI
different acceptance rates.
My friend, from the same CC I transferred from, applied this year for ME with a 3.7 GPA and much more coursework done than me. She just got rejected.
Cal Poly is in the process of rebuilding their UU and just built the nation's largest on-campus apartment complex (which I'm currently living in). I imagine that the cost of these projects, combined with the economic state has pretty much brought acceptance chances down to luck. Everyone seriously applying has a a reasonably high GPA, but not everyone can be taken. It's definitely pretty sad that people who deserve a Cal Poly education are being denied it because of the year they happened to apply.
Anyway, if you get rejected from Cal Poly, I'd head to Long Beach for number 2; if you're only looking for CSUs, that is. Long Beach is actually superior to Pomona in their engineering programs, if I recall correctly.
I got admitted to UCI along with their honors program (Mech engineering major). And I got rejected by cal poly?
How is LBSU "superior" than Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) in engineering? CPP offers more majors than LBSU in engineering
List of engineering programs in the California State University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and is ranked far higher in engineering by US NEWS
http://www.cefns.nau.edu/Academic/CS/misc_docs/UG_engineering_ranking_08.pdf
I tacked on the "If I recall correctly" for a reason. I'm not positive about the rankings. I believe CSU LB scores higher overall as a public undergrad university, and I believe that, at least when I was checking before applying in 2008, LB beats out some of Pomona's engineering programs. I definitely don't believe the discrepancy is as large as your US News link would imply. Once I got accepted to SLO, of course, my interest in keeping current with college rankings declined a bit.
I've never gotten a rejection letter before LOOOL. So it feels kind of weird right now...
But at the same time this is the 3rd result I've gotten back so I should be prepared to have way more since I applied to 10+ schools LOOOL.
CSU GPA: 3.4 ):
SAT I: 1850
ECs: Quite a lot
Major: Psychology
Aiyah