Historically International students hear anytime from December to March since many do have different school year timelines than US students. Still assume decisions will be posted in March.
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Happy to hear you love it there! Thanks for your response!
Curious about why SLO and some CSUs take so long for decisions. If it’s just an algorithm, I assume it would be fast. Or do they actually review them once they do through some algorithm first and then review those that make a first cut?
I think one reason is they wait for departments to give them their final number of target students so they can decide how many to admit for each major. I’m sure there’s a lot of number crunching going on to balance individual department goals with the overall number of accepted students.
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My guess here is outdated computer systems and lack of personnel to handle the volume now pouring in.
There is really nothing on a CSU application that can be reviewed by human better than computer. There is no essays; EC are self reported in block hours; A-G classes are inputted as a matter of fact; GPA calculation is a simple tweak in spread sheet formula.
I just think they can’t handle the volume.
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It is only easier because not as many oos apply and many of the ones accepted don’t enroll
In previous times Cal Poly had a simple formula they posted online. They had the easiest application to fill out. It was:
#1 Name
#2 GPA
#3 SAT/ACT score
#4 Signature
No essays. Now that SATs have been removed from the equation, they have to pore over your transcript to see what classes you took, what classes were offered, how you compare to others from your school, how your school compares to other schools. It’s harder, more subjective minus a significant data point, the SAT score. Without that score, thousands more have applied, that would not have previously, so all this combines to make the process more subjective, and lengthier. It would be hard to come up with an algorithm to analyze the transcript, which is now the ONLY data point they have.
Decisions will come out April 1st
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/education/cal-poly-university/article285725481.html
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Thanks. A bit later than expected.
Quite a bit later than last year. My son heard back on March 10th last year and that felt like a long wait…
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San Luis Tribune just posted this info:
Cal Poly will begin sending out notices of admission, rejection or waitlisting on April 1, according to university spokesperson Matt Lazier. The notices will be visible through applicants’ Cal Poly portal. Those admitted will have until May 15 to accept or reject their application. Once the university has an idea how many admitted students will accept their offers, it will begin filling additional space from the waitlist, up until July 15. There are no rankings on the waitlist and no additional materials will be accepted, Cal Poly said on its website.
Possible the backtrack (not the best word choice) on the planned summer sessions for incoming freshman through them off? Mentioned this delay to my son and he was surprised / disappointed.
Can you share the link?
This is a useful link for admission data
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Yikes! That leaves very little time to plan to attend accepted students open house (starts April 11). No idea if my daughter will even be accepted but would still like time to plan for that if she is accepted (have to find a refundable hotel room).
https://tableau.calstate.edu/views/Application_withsystemwide/ApplicationsandAdmissions
You need to play around with the tabs and filters.
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Yep. While it was a cold dose of reality @Twins2023 comments last week now feels a bit prophetic. Come on Poly; underpromise and over deliver on those admissions.
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There’s a 10% difference between the male and female acceptance rate. That seems like a lot.
Yeah - I’m bracing for another “SLO” roll of decisions by Cal Poly 
My son applied for Fall 2021 and it was a painful wait to be rejected (he had stats that were at or above admitted students for Biz Admin - but maybe his lack of work hours hurt him - he had plenty of EC’s- just not work). He is at UC Irvine and will actually (hopefully) finish everything by this fall (two quarters early)- that even included a semester in Prague where none of those classes met any UC Electives or Major requirements.
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At least SLO is releasing all decisions on one day. No more acceptances, then WL’s, then rejections.