I just looked at the numbers on the CSU dashboard and SLO county students make up 1.07% of the CA applicant pool and get 2.36% of the admit offers. So a significant bump for them but maybe not a huge impact due to small numbers. Parts of Santa Barbara and Monterey Counties also get a bump but I don’t see a way to break those out.
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Looking at the same data and agree no way to break out Northern SB and Southern Monterey counties from the CSU Dashboard data.
Do you think he got rejected from SLO due to his GPA, but got accepted at UC Berkeley due to other parts of his application being strong?
To be eligible for Math 141, 161, or 221 (calculus) at Cal Poly, student need one of the following:
SAT MATH score of 620+
ACT MATH score of 26+
CAASPP/EAP Math Exam score of “Standard Exceeded” (level 4)
Or take the MAPE test.
What about an A in both Precaclus and Statistics at a California Community College?
You may still need to take a placement test.
You might as well go the extra step and take Calc 1 before SLO / UC starts. I tell my S24 there is definitely a benefit to start Math off track.
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False alarm.
anyone know how competitive/impacted the anthropology/geography major is
I would love to know why SLO takes until March to post decisions, given that the application is essentially just structured data that they feed into some formula that allows students to be ranked by the major they applied to.
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My son had a strong application and GPA (I don’t recall his CSU GPA, but I know his UC GPA was 4.4ish). He applied in Bioengineering so maybe his GPA wasn’t strong enough for that at SLO. After being rejected at SLO, I thought the odds of him getting accepted at the higher-ranked UCs were zero, but he then got accepted at all UCs except UCLA (waitlisted). He’s in his 3rd year at Cal now doing pre-med and has straight A’s, so I like to think it was SLO’s loss 
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Goes to show that PIQs are important, I guess. UCs aren’t just GPA rankings.
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I think it’s just because SLO is a smaller school with limited capacity. Once the allotted spots are filled, that’s it. People with sky high GPAs get rejected from SLO. It’s not a reflection on the kids.
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Who knows but it might just be sheer volume. When my son applied 3 years ago (for class of 2025), they released the acceptance wave of decisions around Feb 25-ish.
b. If the student has transfer credit from another university, then common articulations can be found at assist.org. Those courses not articulated through Assist will be vetted by the Cal Poly Evaluations Department.
Around 53% admit rate for anthropology & geography, but it is just an estimate.
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Wait so are there any portal astrology things for the portal today? Also what time would decisions come out?
Perhaps, but even if they got 250,000 apps, that doesn’t strike me as that much data to deal with in 2024. Disclaimer: I_am_not_a_computer/data_scientist. Perhaps this would make a great “learn by doing” project for seniors in these fields at CalPoly that would be a great legacy to leave future generations of CalPoly aspirants.
Has “class search” always been a selection under dash board?
yes
you would have to look at specific high schools applied vs. admitted data. Local kids should get priority. That is how the CSU system was created. To allow kids to commute that couldn’t otherwise afford to go to college.
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