Wow you clearly have not been to a public school in the northeast!
Because of my parents need to be overseas, I spent my 10th grade year at a highly rated boarding school…which I didn’t find that challenging. The following year, after they returned to the states, I moved home and returned to the public school I had left and found that I had actually fallen behind my public school peers while I was away at the “highly selective” prep school. So, from personal experience I can assure you that your generalization is not close to accurate.
Colleges know which schools are quality and which are not - both public and private.
You can see on the UC metrics what the average gpa is of accepted students from high schools throughout the US. I looked up my old public HS and the average gpa of accepted students is 3.7 which is much lower than the average gpa of accepted students from most other schools both public and private. Take home message - they are well aware of grade inflation and A’s or B’s only mean as much as the institutions from which they are granted.
Was referring to public schools in the Bay Area and nearby. Yes, there are lots of hard public schools, easy private schools, and so on around the nation but the bottom line is the original claim was “private schools are filled with inflated grades” 
It’s usually the opppsite, but that doesn’t mean EVERY public school has GPA inflation, which many on this forum are mad that I said
Are there seriously no campus (or CAED) tour options left for March? We already booked flights/hotel/car (coming from Washington DC) during my Spring Break to see Cal Poly. I really don’t have any other availability, pretty annoying if this is actually the case!
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Since this CAL POLY SLO discussion has evolved into a Private vs Public school discussion thread, I suggest posters still interested in continuing that particular discussion take it to PM or start another discussion thread.
There are many posts already that have completely derailed the purpose of the Freshman Class discussion.
Thank you.
Ah! Good luck! I have a sophomore there who loves it.
Apologies. Didn’t know this was only for freshman class CP applicants.
No problem. Sometimes posters just get sidetracked so trying to keep posts related to the subject at hand which is SLO Class of 2028 Freshman Discussion.
Thanks! Yes I saw that after we posted. We live in Riverside so it would be 4 hour drive up there and then a 4 hour plus drive home and then 2 hours down to SDSU the next morning. I also just had to switch my day off from 4/12 to 4/8 that week so I don’t think if she gets in we will make it. We might be able to schedule a tour the week before during spring break. She had visited in 2022 so she has been before.
I honestly think the only thing that might trump SDSU is if she gets into Cal or UCLA.
Has anyone received any info on if there will be another wave today for first-year applicants?
March 11th
Same here!
Nope but I just heard some declines went out. Is that true??
Too bad they closed the on campus bar at SDSU around the end of 2000. We will be there on 4/13 unless UCLA or Cal happens. My daughter also applied to Webers Honors College. FWIW the honors college dorm at SDSU looked like a relic from the cold war when I was there in the late 90s; it was downright scary and I never went in. It was overdue for renovations then so glad it is now newer.
I haven’t seen or heard of any declines but there may be some… who knows
The honors dorm is gorgeous and it shares a pool! They cram them in 3 to a room but definitely nice dorms!
It also only works if more than 10 kids apply, are admitted, and enroll. My daughter’s school has about 75-100 graduates per year so for SLO there are usually less than 10 kids apply and less than 10 get in. Per the college acceptance list from last year I know of 2 who got in; only know of one so far (a classmate of my daughter’s; no idea as to what major though).
I did this very same math & rationalization. Glad it’s not just me =) Admission is a lottery. You have to achieve to enter the lottery, but it’s still a lottery!
I’d go to the tour office on the day and they might have space…or they might just add you if you’ve been admitted. (They did that for my family at Cal when the tour was full.) Also, Cal Poly and SLO are very easy to navigate on a self tour…possibly even stop in the CAED office. (I have a freshman in CAED, and am also from the DC area.) Its a very friendly campus, so I wouldn’t worry too much.
My family tried to tour SDSU campus in Feb., and the tours were completely booked. So we emailed the admission counselor for our region, and she immediately put us in an admitted student tour on the day we chose. So, yeah, email or call the admission counselor that’s assigned to your region. He/She/They will be able to get you on the tour.
Housing is tough. They are forcing freshman to now require 3 students in a dorm room vs 2. Very crammed