For those who didn’t get in with perfect scores, ie 5000 I would bet there is a mistake on your application. Have you looked at your application and seen if it shows a maxed GPA and all your rigor points? Many students make mistakes, such as forgetting to include the algebra, geometry and/or algebra 2 taken before the start of high school or other courses such as foreign language, which can hurt your overall score, or don’t properly report all their grades, alternatively many miscalculate their MCA. Finally remember that not all students are admitted via an MCA score, there is also a “second run” for some of the students where the additional points for being LIFG, from certain schools, live in the enrollment area as defined by the CSU, etc. There are also athletes and some other admits I’ve never been able to get straight answers. Finally there are people who post incorrect stats either intentionally or accidentally that may make it look “wrong”.
@socaldad2002 Well first of all when the average cal poly SAT is in the 1300s and people with 1400+ are getting waitlisted it makes it seem like no matter what “research” you do, the process still makes no sense.
@Kvng123 The average is meaningless. Acceptance rates by college ranged from 26.7% to 51.6%, within that majors probably ranged much further. Enrollment rates (percent of those who were accepted enroll) ranged from 20.6% to 49%. The same would be true for the average gpa and SAT scores. Those accepted in 2017 ranged from 3.90 gpa and 1315 SAT to 4.16% and 1467. This is for all admits including the ones using bonus points, and again individual majors will range even further. I hope you don’t consider this picking on you. Some majors at Cal Poly are more difficult to get into than those of Cal or UCLA because the total students in the major are so small. Other majors that aren’t STEM are also very impacted and difficult to get in. Some try to game the system by applying to an “easier” major and then transfer, then they scream and yell about how unfair it is the student can’t transfer because either they never qualified for the major in the first place or because they have to take a few courses and get a certain grade and have a high enough GPA to qualify to change their major. For most the process makes sense and works, but when you are one of thousands qualified to get a spot, even highly qualified, and still don’t get in because enough higher students applied it is extremely disappointing, but there are many great colleges out there and Cal Poly isn’t the only option.
I totally agree with @czs1994.
The CSU’s don’t superscore. You must have been close. My daughter had a 4.33, SAT 1490 tons of e.c. varsity sport for 4 years, class office, leadership, volunteering, but both parents went to college. Hang in there. When one door closes another opens!
@czs1994 not really intended to be speaking out for myself really, a friend of mine was waitlisted w high stats and this whole admissions process is really annoying and drawn out and comments like “maybe they should take an AP class on applying to college” are really not appreciated for those who have gone through 4 years of AP tests/classes only to be mocked.
@eyemgh considering the average gpa for engineering for 2017 was 4.16 and ACT was 32 I think it is safe to say “at least half of the applicants have a CSU GPA of 4.0 or better and an ACT of 32 or better.” you can leave out that it is entirely possible. That is for ALL of engineering, for CS is is entirely possible that half had well over a 4.2 gpa (uncapped) and over a 32 ACT. https://admissions.calpoly.edu/prospective/profile.html
The ED commitments are not binding if you cannot pay. They don’t hold you to that.
Would like to encourage anyone who has officially accepted their SIR (at Cal Poly or elsewhere) to officially turn down any other acceptances they received to open up their spot for others.
@czs1994, those are the stats for accepted students. I was speaking of all applicants. The median of that pool is anyone’s guess, but for CS, I’d bet pretty high.
@Kvng123, it is very important to know that Cal Poly admits competitively to every individual major. Looking at averages for the school, or even the individual colleges is essentially meaningless. In the College of Engineering for example you have CS with under 10% acceptance to Manufacturing Engineering where the acceptance rate is close to 100%.
hello, so does anyone know if there is any hope for those who still haven’t heard back yet? is there any chance of getting accepted or waitlisted at this point?
I do believe CalPoly considers scores from different test dates.
@tidepods @spacebound18 Did you get an email about Green and Good or was it on your portal?
@Coopy1 Thank you! I got my acceptance early last week. 7am on portal, 7pm by email.
@NWhummingbird I received an email but it’s also featured on my portal.
Are they going to mail a paper acceptance letter/packet do y’all think?
In addition to the portal update/email? Just wondering
I tried searching for this but could not find anything. Does anyone know typically how soon people may hear about getting moved off the wait list? Should we just assume it won’t be until mid April at the earliest? Or only after May 1st?
I thought you could hear like anywhere from april to like july
@sweets911, it varies by year. The last 4 years have been pulled from the Common Data Sets and posted on this thread by @Gumbymom. Search this thread for her handle with the magnifying glass above or pull it from the CDSs linked below.
https://ir.calpoly.edu/content/publications_reports/cds/index
The email about waitlist students said notification by 5/15