I agree. For my daughter 3 years ago, she did not get in during the admit wave. We kept hearing that more acceptances were coming. That never happened. She finally got the rejection weeks later, ironically it was hours after she found out she got in to UCLA! The valedictorians at her high school also didn’t get in. It made no sense. This year, my son, whose stats were not as high, did get in. There really is no pattern: it is just very random.
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S24 only has 2 years of Spanish in HS. Got in for CE.
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There is a Math Placement exam (MAPE). It is only up to Calculus 1 though. There is a foreign language placement exam for Spanish and French but that really only pertains to a degree in that area.
Edited to add: AP exam scores of 3 or higher will give them credits towards GE’s and CC classes that are listed in assist.org will also.
Ok thanks much for the info and links.
That’s okay/fine but not great. Even with max placement (don’t care so much about credit, per se) he’ll still wind up repeating quite a bit unfortunately.
Well, we’ll cross that bridge if he chooses to attend I guess!
Depends on major but if he took classes at a CC those are college credit classes and typically do count towards major and will cover some of the support classes.
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Has any undergrad freshman gotten in for Environmental Earth and Soil sciences? I have yet to hear!
With no admit today I am taking it as a no. We are very sad. I honestly thought my D had a shot at it. Trying to see where the weaknesses were. Maybe someone can tell me:
Applied for Biological Sciences
CSU Semesters
English 8 semesters including 2 IB HL semesters
Math 12 semesters which is including 2 semesters of Dual Credit Stats, Algebra in 7th and 8th grade
Lab Science 10 which includes IB classes and Dual Credit
Foreign Language 4 semesters *maybe the reason?
Elective Semesters: 9 which includes dual credit and IB
Visual performing arts: 3 semesters which include IB Honors level credits
Social Science 8 semesters which includes IB credits
CSU GPA 4.15 Not sure slo GPA.
OOS
She applied on time. Got into SDSU and CPP with honors invites.
Looks like reject from SLO
It is hard but we are trying to move on. Good luck to everyone and congratulations to those who got accepted.
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For better or worse they’re at his current boarding school, where the curriculum “goes to 11.” We’ve made a small few direct inquiries about this issue (at the encouragement of the counseling office) with the departments at some other colleges and to my surprise they seemed mostly flexible, as in anything from a “yes we can administer a (private) subject matter test for XYZ” to “yeah we can talk to him and suss out where he should place” sort of thing. We’ll see I suppose.
Not at all the end of the world if he has to repeat some stuff.
don’t give up completely!! it isn’t over until you get a rejection letter and there’s plenty of time left in march. there is still hope though the chances are slimmer.
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I agree. For my daughter 3 years ago, she did not get in during the admit wave. We kept hearing that more acceptances were coming. That never happened. She finally got the rejection weeks later, ironically it was hours after she found out she got in to UCLA! The valedictorians at her high school also didn’t get in. It made no sense. This year, my son, whose stats were not as high, did get in. There really is no pattern: it is just very random>
Same for us 3 years ago except it was my son and he got into Cal just before receiving the SLO rejection. My current high school senior has higher stats than my older son but hasn’t received any word from SLO so I’m assuming it’s a rejection. Mentally we’ve moved on, no use in us continuing to check the SLO portal when my son may not receive any word for another 2 weeks. I really don’t understand why SLO rolls out admissions the way they do and wish they did it like the UCs.
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Yes probably worth meeting with an advisor if he chooses to go.
I will say MANY CP students also do repeat classes at CP that they took in high school (AP’s or CC classes) because the classes are MUCH harder at CP and they want and need a better foundation before moving on, especially in the engineering side. It is very common.
Also, the STEM classes (Chem, Physics and Calc) are all very notorious at CP to humble many of students (who were 4.5 and above in high school) where they are lucky to walk away with a C- and in some cases a D. Grade Forgiveness is real and alive at CP.
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Thank you! Very helpful!
I’m surprised it is that easy given the relative differences in impaction between the different engineering majors.
What is S24?
It’s because if you look at the flowcharts of all the engineering majors, they have all the same major support classes regardless of which specific engineering major they are and the major support classes are 75% of what they are taking in their first 3 quarters at CP. Even being blocked into classes, doesn’t mean that they can’t change their schedules and begin pursuing the major classes for the major they are wanting to move to, which is maybe just 1-2 classes a quarter. For changing a major they are looking at how you are doing in your classes, if you would have gotten in originally in the new major and the classes you have taken and are taking. Being an engineering major already, 2 of 3 of these are easily met, now the student just needs to do well (which is relative to the major, average GPA for mechanical engineering is 2.5 at CP because it is HARD not because students are slacking).
Thank you! May still be hope for her
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I hope to find out too! Have any admissions been posted for incoming freshman
So if you didn’t get an email as of 3/11 or 3/12 you are likely waitlisted or rejected ?
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I’m hoping against hope, but my son has not been admitted as of 3/12.
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Sadly, yes. Odds are against us . I’m in the same boat
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