I was accepted for Business Administration on March 2nd, my friend with higher stats hasn’t heard back so I’m not entirely sure if there are no more acceptances coming out…
Has anyone gotten in for biochem? Seems like my chances are not looking so well now that wait-lists have started rolling out, but still hopeful.
In State
UW GPA: 4.0
CSU Calculated GPA: 4.18
SAT: 1310
Lots of extracurriculars.
@Ksizzle3: SLO does not publish MCA scores by major but check this thread to see what the MCA scores of accepted Business Majors are for this in-coming class.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo/2060363-2018-final-status.html#latest
@biochembear See post #2022 only use “biochemistry”
@campingkathryn I completely agree. We need to expand our schools.
I was waitlisted for Biological Sciences with a CSU GPA of 4.2 and ACT of 33. Have already gotten into a bunch of safeties and U Mich and Boston College… pretty surprised but oh well.
D just got waitlisted for ME. In state. UWGPA 3.9 and WGPA 4.21. SAT 1510.
Sounds like everyone is getting waitlisted. Any idea how we can find out how many are on that list? It would be nice to know if we have a shot or or just move on…
@justcurious55 I am betting there are ALOT …
Just checked the portal. Got waitlisted for biochem!
@Justcurious55: Knowing how many are on the waitlist will not help since SLO admits by major. They will not tell you how many waitlisted applicants for each major and where you rank. I am sure waitlist #’s are high this year.
Here are stats from the last 4 years:
2017: 3168 offered waitlist and 15 accepted
2016: 1011 offered waitlist and 675 accepted
2015: 1888 offered waitlist and 134 accepted
2014: 1598 offered waitlist and 67 accepted
Got waitlisted for business admin today! I know because I have been obsessively checking my portal for the past week. Stats are 4.15 GPA 1370 SAT (I was only able to take it once).
S was just waitlisted for aerospace engineering.
@MamaLlama27 Update: Daughter just got waitlisted. I feel at least a little better that she made the waitlist!
Waitlisted for Biochemistry. 4.17 CP GPA, 1490 SAT
Wait listed for Architecture, 3.9 CSU GPA. 1350 SAT
wait listed in state for biochem 4.25gpa 31ACT
ARGH!!! I don’t know if I just screwed myself over. So I decided to call the Admissions office to see why my status still says “no determination” just in case something was wrong with my application. I asked if it is still possible to be admitted to a major that has already sent out wait list decisions for some students in that major. The admissions clerk said “we cannot tell you about our internal reviewing process, but if it says no determination has been made then it means that it is still being reviewed…we have until April 1st.”
2 minutes after I got off the phone, I decided to refresh my portal one more time before I sign out and it got updated to “wait list”!!! This was at 4:51pm. I had refreshed my portal right before I called them which was about 4:45pm or so. Now I know it could all be coincidental because she didn’t ask for my name or any identifying information.
Anyway, for those who said it was all about MCA scores and that only MCAs of 4800+ were admitted to CS, they are wrong because my MCA score is 5000+ (yes, the frustration of waiting got my lazy butt to figure out how to calculate it. I did it manually but I also used @Sterny16 calculator that he made https://repl.it/@jacksonpark/KnottyStrikingGerbil to double check).
So this leads me to suspect that it may be because I submitted my application really late (Nov. 29) and by the time they got to my app, all spots have been filled. For those CS majors who were put on the wait list, when did you submit your application? This might be why you were waitlisted rather than your MCA score not being high enough, especially those with MCAs over 4700 like @nerdgirl97 and @msingh9001.
And if there are admitted CS applicants who submitted their applications really late like I did, then who the heck knows how SLO chooses whom to admit or not because it’s not just about high MCAs.
Everyone who is getting waitlisted has much higher stats than me haha
@droosif what were his stats??