@jcraft18 There were a couple of international students that didn’t hear back until April 27 of their acceptances in 2017. (And this was after in state acceptances were released on Feb 17th). So hang in there. You may have a bit of a wait ahead of you.
Rejected
CSU GPA:4.34
Unweighted GPA: 3.97
SAT Composite: 1400
Major: Mechanical Engineering
I am sorry if this has been asked before, and I am almost positive the answer is no, but thought I would put it out there. D is waitlisted for Kinesiology. We are OOS. Any way she can contact Cal Poly and switch to a less impacted major without a waitlist?
From the local paper re poly admits this round. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/education/article204394779.html
@Meryna123 there are no majors without waitlists at this point, they have sent out the admits.
What would be the aim in a different major? Would she be hoping to switch back later?
Accepted
GPA: 4.03
SAT: 1330
Major: Biosource Engineering
Don’t know how I got in…
UCIvyL last year for BRAE:
Ave GPA = 3.91
Ave Reading SAT = 620
Ave Math SAT = 658
So you are above average in both SAT and GPA. Only your major matters at CPSLO, not the stats of students in other majors.
@VickiSoCal She wasn’t 100% sure she wanted to major in Kinesiology. She applied under a few different majors at other schools. She probably should have applied under general Biology instead.
Is it unusual that I was accepted with these stats?
Major: Business
W GPA: 3.55
SAT: 1360
Waitlisted last week
Major: Sociology
GPA: 4.28
ACT: 31
SAT: 1380
Rejected (wun wun wuhhh)
Major: Computer Science
G.P.A.: 4.15(W); 3.76(UW)
SAT: 1490
Daughter accepted. 4.2 GPA. Lots of extracurriculars, volunteering, sports, work part time, but SAT was 1180. Her major is City Planning.
I don’t understand why are there so many high stats people getting waitlisted / rejected 
I was waitlisted on the 6th and they said they would let me know the decision by today (the 15th) and it still says waitlisted
@1Dluver
They’ll let you know by May 15th not March 15th. They have to see how many admitted students are planning to attend before they admit people from the waitlist.
thanks
Accepted last week!
Major: Biomedical engineering
Female in-state
GPA: 4.33 (capped at 4.2)
SAT: 1410
ACT: 31 (E:35 M:32)
Lots of ec’s, work related
Approx MCA: 4850
DS notified yesterday:
Rejected Aerospace Engineering
In State
ACT 34 composite (M 34; E 33)
GPA: 3.95 UW/4.15 SLO
12+ AP and honors courses (all he could fit)
Boy’s State
8 varsity letters (4 captains)
Robotics team lead engineer and captain (team advanced to the 3rd round of competition last two years)
200+ hours volunteering at a local hospital
National Merit Commended
AP Scholar with Distinction
So, explain to me how a state school rejects this in-state candidate? Thankfully he’s fine as he has other choices right now (Purdue FYE honors and Georgia Tech) and is waiting on a few truly reach schools.
SLO should be a safety for a kid with these stats.
Your son looks like an amazing student and human being. SLO, particularly for AE, ME, and CS is not a safety school for anybody. That ship sailed about five years ago. As we have discussed ad nauseam CP admissions is by major and is all based on the MCA score. It is likely that your son’s ACT (33.5 for CP purposes) and GPA are actually just slightly below the successful applicant to AE and those two components make up the bulk of the MCA calculation.
Your son would have benefitted tremendously from a human reading his application rather than a computer. His accomplishments are extraordinary and not captured well on the CSU application. It is likely quite a few kids with slightly better raw numbers got in ahead of your son, but have nowhere near the quality of his ECs. That is unfair and points to a limitation of computer driven admissions. But, as I pointed out earlier there are severe limitations with biased humans reading applications as well.
None of this takes the sting off a rejection that should not have happened. I am sure I do not have to tell you that he will do amazing at whatever school is lucky enough to get him. Good luck!
@choroidal Thanks for the reply and kind words. I understand and appreciate all that you’ve written. We’ve been fortunate enough to tour many of the schools he’s applied to, including SLO. I must say that we were underwhelmed with some, and blown away by others. SLO was somewhere in the middle. Our tour guide was great, but she did say that most students should “expect” to graduate in 5 years because it’s so hard to get classes. In fact, she said that most students end up taking classes they don’t want or need because the classes they want are not available.
The sting of rejection for my son is pretty much negated by the fact that he prefers Purdue and Georgia Tech (more the latter). But for some of his friends who have SLO at the top of their list, and who have similar stats, and how have been denied or wait-listed, it’s just plain awful.