My kid’s school typically sends 10-15 students to SLO every year and this time Zero kids have heard back. Surprising!
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May I ask how are people finding the data on admits per source high school? I see the UC data through 2023, but can’t find any CSU data. Is this something I’d need to ask our high school counselors?
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/cal-state-cal-poly-admissions/
You can type in school name and see the result
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If you go to Admissions Data - Applicant Origins. You can select the University you want and then select your child’s high school and you can see the data of total # of applicants and acceptances.
Data Dashboards | CSU (calstate.edu)
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Subscription required.
works for me.I do not have subscription.
Are you local to the SLO area?
Try the Data Dashboard instead.
Is there a similar data dashboard for UC system?
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Same here. Large public Socal high school. 4 of the top 10 kids in the 600 student class applied to SLO. NONE have heard anything. Just weird.
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Brilliant - thank you!
North Cal
Has the school or a counselor said that no one was admitted to SLO?
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Have any first year applicants heard back today?
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Although SLO doesn’t use essays or tests, I think people underestimate the emphasis they put on actual real work experience. It is a hands on school with a lot of collaboration. I have yet to meet a student from SLO that didn’t have (often significant) work experience in HS and very often in the field of study. It is more than what a parent might think is “the top” student. There were many shocked students and parents a couple years ago at my daughters school because of what people perceived about students. That doesn’t give the whole picture.
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Yes ours did. I am not sure if she got any additional details from SLO, which of course she might not have been privy to share with us.
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I will likely sound like a bitter parent but my kid has been working since she was 14, is on the student board of the YMCA in the bay area, on top of having a 4.0/4.3 Honestly the ONLY thing I can truly say is she didn’t do the “extra” performing arts, english, spanish classes as she is taking AP/dual enrollment on concentrating on classes to help her with her area of study. She helped write the school play freshmen year with 6 kids but didn’t take anymore arts (even though she has acted since age 8) because of covid and then did not feel the vibe with the theater arts teacher and wanted to get involved in other ways such as 4 years of a HS sport(captain one year). If anything, this has just reinforced what I have always said. Do you. Be passionate about what you are passionate about. The rest will always fall into place. I know Cal Poly would have been amazing for my daughter and vice versa, but there are only 90 spots in her major. Without an essay or letter of rec, etc. there is no way for them to truly know any of these kids. They have to turn this into at least somewhat of a lottery. Just stings when kids with less stats get in, but that is also life lessons. I do feel like Cal Poly is perpetuating the “do more” mentality and “check the box” and that makes me sad. She could have taken an easy art and english class at the community college to give her more “points” or chosen a “lesser” major to get in, but that is not who she is.
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You don’t sounds bitter at all. It does sting! It often doesn’t seem fair. I was really speaking to the parents and students that make comparisons. We really don’t know what others applications looked like. And to your point, your daughter applied to a very competitive major. She was probably very qualified. But there just aren’t enough spots. I’m certain with her stats she’ll land somewhere amazing.
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