@nerdgirl97 @eyemgh Just to add to that. My son is one of the high stat students OOS who got in for Aero, and we were biting nails all the way. We didn’t apply to any UCs - for aero we applied to Michigan, Purdue, CU Boulder, UMD, Univ of Washington and a few others with strong aerospace programs. Cal Poly still at the top of this list - and our college counselor discouraged us from the UCs based on the difficulty of getting the classes he needed to graduate in 4 years. She said it would be like winning the lottery to get them all in sequence. That, combined with the huge classes taught by TAs, really put Cal Poly on top. To those who think Cal Poly is only known in state, well you’re mistaken. And you can’t beat the price, even with the new OOS fees.
so there’s like less than a month left for acceptances and i still havent heard anything so does that mean i’m not getting accepted bc i’m starting to freak out
@NWhummingbird Do you know if there’s an issue at Cal Poly getting classes you need too? I figured that was pretty much par for the course for all CA public schools. Do they do a better job than most at keeping engineering majors on track?
Use the search tool to search for your major @laneykb . If you don’t see others being accepted for you major (and in same category eg. In State, Out of State, Transfer) they may not have released those acceptances yet. If others have been accepted under your major, I got to be honest with you…it is not a good sign…not if you go by the trends of the past 5 years. I don’t work there, I am not an expert, but I can read a consistent pattern.
and while the UC’s are super hard to get into in certain majors I remember candidates last year who were denied admission to Cal Poly but got into UC Berkeley. And one was even denied but got into Stanford. Not too shabby either.
Posts #1682 and #1685 are keeping my hopes up. Sounds like nothing was released yesterday so keep positive!
@calpolyalum @chicalmom That’s because they still have acceptances to hand out for transfers.
@CentralCoaster There are freshmen transfers??
@CentralCoaster, that directly contradicts what an admissions official said yesterday. Please reference the earlier posts. I simply don’t think it’s helpful to post that freshman admission decisions have concluded for certain majors without any inside knowledge. You have no way of knowing whether they’re handling admission decisions in the same way they’ve done them in previous years. My child learned 24 hours after someone else reported being accepted in her major–and her stats are about as high as they get. So at least in her case, all majors weren’t released on the same day.
@sandiegodad2017 Congrats for your daughter! Like I said before, they said that few admissions have been sent out, and more are to come.
@SC Anteater…It is an issue everywhere, but less so at Cal Poly. I’ve gotten on the parents FB group and talked to 4 or 5 parents of Aero engineers - all seem to be on 4 year graduation plans, unless they by choice have taken quarters off for internships or travel abroad.
I’m confused. If one applicant has an MCA score 20 points higher than another applicant due to ec’s (both are in-state, non-local, non Hayden partner school) but the lower MCA scoring applicant has higher GPA and ACT stats does the MCA score still prevail for acceptance? Both have applied to the same major. I thought academic stats carry more weight in the Cal Poly SLO algorithm?
All MCA points count the same. A point earned for work experience is exactly the same as a point earned for GPA.
@biscuit4reggie stats do carry more weight…4650 out of 5000 MCA points are for stats + rigor. But if someone with slightly lower stats does significantly more ECs/work, they will come out ahead in the end. For the most competitive majors, where everyone has pretty stellar stats, it’s often the difference between work in major or not that decides things. MCA is all they look at, so the higher score, however they got there, wins.
@eyemgh Um, yeah, that’s what I said lol. You might wanna try actually reading to the end of my comment:
“Second, just because a school is considered “better,” doesn’t mean it’s better for that student. Maybe someone genuinely prefers Cal Poly SLO over UC Berkeley. Maybe SLO is actually a first choice for a high stat student. It’s definitely possible, SLO is a great school.”
@MellowG nailed it. That’s why I try to get applicants to understand the MCA and not to simply compare stats. Adding in the second tier non-academic adders like Hayden Partner school, service area, Poly employee, parent(s) who didn’t finish HS can add HUGE points. In the end, a MCA point is a MCA point. At the margins, the little differences make a big impact.
@chicalmom - I was the one who talked with admissions yesterday and made the posts about freshman admission decisions still coming out. DD w/ high stats still waiting on ME.
Someone else please call CP admissions 805.756.2311 and post what you find out. Re: Are there still admission decisions rolling out for freshman?
Yesterday they told me yes, but would like someone else to corroborate! Central Coaster apparently doubts what I heard yesterday.
@calpolyalum if the past is an indicator (and I’ve read each admissions thread from 2012 on, and lived through the 2016 one), admissions ALWAYS says more decisions are coming out, even as the waitlist and rejection waves hit. And it is true…they are still working on the edge cases and international students, but for the vast majority if you missed the first wave, things aren’t looking good. @CentralCoaster said it, and I agree, that we all hope this year is different, there are many on this thread that I’m pulling for, but history says hope for the best, but prepare for the worst 
@calpolyalum Their office is closed now, will open at noon. I tried calling yesterday, was on hold for 20 mins, and gave up. Would try again today, but have meetings all afternoon until 5 pm.
I thought. testing was 25%-35% of the score. GPA accounts for 45%-55% of score. That still leaves 30%-10% that one could be filling in with EC’s, Bonus Points, Partner schools etc. Is this not correct?