What are cal poly’s “feeder” HS?
I had the same question about feeder school to Cal Poly. For instance, in the data dashboard that was provided earlier in this thread, I cannot even see our high school. It randomly shows only 2 schools in our area - 1 public and 1 private.
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I’m not super savvy on navigating the dashboard but if I go to search just for Cal Poly and search by “Institution of Origin District” only and select my kid’s school district it brings up only 3 feeder schools (1 private / 2 public). But if I then go to Institution of Origin name I see a drop down menu of all the high schools both public and private located within the school district. I can pull up any other high school and see the data.
I have no idea how a high school gets the “feeder” designation. I was surprised to see that my own son’s high school was a feeder school. I thought feeder schools were local to the SLO area only. But we do tend to send a lot of kids to Cal Poly SLO. Especially in the last couple of years.
I think it shows up because your school is a feeder school this year but if I pick my high school in Institution of Origin I have a grey screen (no stats) for most year except for 2021. Maybe I need check with my high school counselor.
“Feeder” high schools to Cal Poly would most likely be local to Poly. This should be the case for most CSU’s with the local admission and service areas. In the case of Poly, should AG, Templeton, Paso, etc. not be feeders a wonderful opportunity is being missed for these local students.
I would say it is best to ignore the remainder of the post and its private school bias. Generalizes to many students and families.
Who/what determines ‘best students’? Admissions is trained to do their job. There are a lot of factors, not just GPA…including rigor and chosen major. Schools do want diversity of all types on their campuses. It’s probably fair to say everyone accepted deserves to be there, but countless qualified students won’t get an acceptance.
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Have you seen any news for Art & Design majors (portfolios)?
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Bellarmine?? Interesting. Our public HS in San Jose had roughly the same qty as Bell accepted at least from 2022 data and prior. I wonder if they changed things last year…
Wow!! Where did you find this academic/Nona academic check box info? I have never seen it
Using the UC link provided, the data does not support that theory. Looking at UCLA and UCB, the admit rate for in-state freshmen from private schools is very slightly higher than that of public schools.
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None of the public high schools in our district are in this, so it’s skewed.
This is exactly right: lots of qualified students won’t get in - and that’s the case at all selective colleges and universities. I recall a presentation years ago at a university that admitted roughly 15% of applicants saying that somewhere around 80% of their applicants were qualified/could be successful if admitted - but obviously they can’t admit everyone. It probably doesn’t help all that much if you’re not admitted, but a rejection or wait list doesn’t mean you aren’t great.
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Sure, I agree with rewarding those who took a tough schedule. But, as the OP stated, and I have noticed, there are kids admitted at a lot of schools who don’t take the same rigorous schedule and don’t have the same grades, test scores, AP success, etc. as others from the same or similar high schools who are denied. None of it really makes sense to me.
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Interesting, perhaps those with admitted students should mention if they attend public or private schools? My son who was admitted for City Planning is at a public school. There is no way we could send him to a private school. With one kid in another public college we are trying to figure out how to pay for his education with minimum loans on his part.
But the major they pick seems to really determine their chances in. He is in a lower impacted major than many. This whole process so hard on our kids. They are all great students.
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I agree. It’s a difficult, stressful and confusing process for sure.
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CSU Local Admission and Service Areas
SLO’s service area is:
San Luis Obispo County and region north of Gaviota in Santa Barbara County
SLO’s local admission area for incoming freshmen is:
Students applying from high schools in San Luis Obispo, southern Monterey, and northern Santa Barbara Counties may be assigned additional points in the multi-valued selection criteria.
Edited: didn’t mean to respond to HopefulUCSB2028
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It might be related to the yield rate. I believe I saw data a while back that showed that more kids at Bellarmine accept their offer from Cal Poly versus other schools.
Edited to add the acceptance rate for Bellarmine students is around 30%
Every school has a Common Data Set. Is that what you are looking for? The check box is on page 15.
My son was admitted for Political Science. He attends a Parochial school in the Bay Area. I was expecting a denial based on my daughter’s denial 3 years ago. They basically had the same stats - different majors though (she was biology). His EC’s were stronger than hers but many at his school with similar profiles have not received acceptances (Engineering and Construction Management). Daughter rejected at SLO but got accepted at UCI, UCSD, UCD, UCSB and waitlisted at UCLA. It really is a bit of a mystery that in my experience - can’t be solved.
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