@grosty: I think that the SLO’s target enrollment is 5400 not that they admitted 5400 applicants. Yes they are overenrolled this year by 800 Freshman but not all admitted applicants accept and enroll. Please correct me if I am wrong?
This is last years data for Freshman: Applied: 48,590 Accepted: 16,817 Enrolled: 5,194
@eyemgh the fact that you are comparing cal poly to stanford is beyond me but you shouldn’t be justifying that kids who work extremely hard all four years getting nothing but As especially in their AP classes deserve to be waitlisted lmao
My S just got waitlisted for psych. In state, not local. SAT 1420 MCA 4120 no real ECs. National Hispanic Scholar, Nat Merit Commende.
@grosty (This is just my theory, I don’t know if it’s true) But just from reading this forum it seems like Cal Poly chose to waitlist many more students this year rather than to accept them, because on their website it says they accepted around 16,500 applicants from a total of about 48,500 applicants last year (which is about a 34% acceptance rate). Maybe they’re just doing their admissions differently this year? UC Irvine messed up big time last year when they admitted too many people, and they had to send out rejections to hundreds of students who had already committed. So maybe that has something to do with it? I don’t know for sure, this is just what I think.
Hopefully the UCs will work out as they take into account essays, eligibility in local context status and the SAT subject tests which he got 800 on math SAT2 and physics and 780 on biomolecular SAT2. It was a little bit of a surprise to be waitlisted to a state school in a non-engineering major with a 1510 SAT which is in the top 1% of takers. I think with the rise in applicants and maybe a decrease in acceptances due to over accepting last year this year was tough to get in even for brilliant, motivated students in certain majors.
@Gumbymom Oh I think that makes more sense, just logically. So it’s not that they accepted 5400 of 65000, it’s that they’re trying to enroll 5400, so they are accepting more than 5400 because not everyone accepted will enroll. Correct?
Still though, that’s a huge jump in number of applications, meaning the acceptance rate will decrease significantly. Although that should be no surprise to anyone lol.
5400 spots but they accept roughly 3x that depending on their calculations give approximate 31% yield or those accepted who choose Cal Poly. That is very rough yield estimate.
Have you heard anything? I still have no determination…
Does anyonr know if transfer students generally find out after freshman waitlist or after freshman rejections or around the same time?
The wait is killing me 
@meb1meb1 So, if they accept roughly 3x 3400, that’d be 16200 of 65000 applicants, about 25% acceptance rate. Definitely a significant drop.
To those that spoke to admin at slo today, is there still a possibility that any more acceptances will be sent out?
@nerdgirl97 choice of major is EVERYTHING at Cal Poly. I believe the CS acceptance rate has been estimated at 7% or so. It was always a long shot.
I am not insulting anyone @ningve . In fact I said that you will see kids get rejected from Cal Poly and get into Berkeley so how do you think that is an insult. I think it’s great. I guess I just I just have the ability to be happy for those people hat get into Berkeley. Hmmm.
Incredibly confused… would like info/advice and maybe even comfort… just got waitlisted for aerospace engineering as in-state student
3.95 UW GPA, 4.55 UC GPA (I know CSU GPA is different than UC GPA but I don’t know mine)
9 APs, including 3 AP science classes and 3 AP math classes (currently taking multivariable calculus), all 5s so far
1550 SAT (750 english / 800 math)
800 Math II, 800 Chem, 800 Physics subject test scores
Highest EC hours per week (I play a varsity sport and do many other things on the side)
Could it possibly be yield protection (Tuft’s syndrome)? I really doubt that personally but that’s what my friends say. How could it even be possible that 30% of applicants have better test scores or GPA than me? (I don’t mean to be rude or arrogant when I say that, but instead just referencing the statistics – their SAT 75th percentile is something like a 1400…).
@nontent i’m so sorry, your stats are amazing! there’s still plenty of schools out there keep your head up
@alexisiy89 I spoke to them today, they said its rolling acceptances through March 30th.
nontent, If you kept a copy of your Cal Poly application, you can find your Cal Poly GPA on the middle of page 6 with the green bars. Just under that you can also find the number of years that you had for math, sciences, etc, to determine your rigor score. And then on the last page with gray bars you can see how you reported the number of hours for ECs that also go into the calculation of your MCA. If you have not calculated your MCA, that might help sort things out.
Waitlisted with 4529 MCA score for econ, let’s hope not a lot of people commit!
@nontent You do have great stats so I understand why you are wondering. My guess is your major. Maybe they didn’t have many spaces open so you were only compared to a very high stat group, not everyone. My S has very similar stats to you and was accepted into Biomedical engineering. Maybe that one had a few more openings?!
He was waitlisted at another school where it looked like many with lower stats were accepted and we were confused then. So sorry you are going through this but I hope if this doesn’t work out that you have another school you can be excited about. Definitely be proud of yourself though and don’t allow this process to change that.
If I havn’t heard about economics do you think it is safe to say the best I could do is be waitlisted? The only thing that still gives me hope is that I have seen only 2 or 3 economic acceptances on this.