You are building YOUR future and you are the one who has to live and study there for 4 years. Go where YOU want to attend, your family can afford and be thrilled you have a supportive household.
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I tell my daughter to choose the one that gives her the most butterflies in her stomach when she thinks about the school.
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Same here @PeixeGato
Yes, the portfolio based majors have not heard and waitlist/denials have not been posted so more decisions will be coming out in the next 2 weeks.
I can understand the sensitivity. I have one kid that was accepted and one that was not. I don’t diminish one’s accomplishment (nor the other). Both worked extremely hard and are fabulous students. It’s probably this experience, being on both sides, that gives me the perspective on “randomness” (and I literally used the phrase “won the lottery” when my first was accepted). A lottery may not be quite the right metaphor but the decisions are absolutely in the margins.
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Hi. I wish I would have read this a few years ago. I didn’t realize I was doing it, but my child says I put a lot of pressure on them to go to cal poly instead of other schools they were more interested in but didn’t feel comfortable saying so. It has caused a tremendous amount of stress and they are no longer at cal poly. Let’s just say I’m not expressing any of my thoughts this time around.
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I am curious about how well SLO handles disability accommodations. LD and ADHD. Any first-hand experience here?
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Yes, I had mentioned that as well. Cal Poly definitely gives weight to students who held paid jobs especially in the area of study. This a very collaborative and hands on school. Loads of group projects, IMHO. They also consider first generation students.
My son was accepted OOS CM. A good friend’s daughter has not heard yet for OOS Biology. Her stats are much higher than my son’s. I know its multi factorial, but its distressing. Do we know if all OOS Biology accepts were notified?
Based on the historical decision timelines, the majority of admits have been notified. There are always exceptions and admits do trickle out over the next few weeks.
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and all decision are weekday roll-outs right? They don’t strike me as a weekend wave release kinda school but this is all new to us and the trickle of decisions across March is exhausting.
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I was telling my wife that back in the day, you had to wait for USPS to show up. That was definitely way less predictable and much more frustrating.
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Yes, normally week day results.
They will email open house registration to students soon, it hasn’t opened yet. Make a hotel reservation now, it will be expensive if you wait.
Admitted student’s day is April 12.
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Make sure to get there in time and go to Thursday night Farmer’s market in downtown on 4/11. It is a major selling point for families and students.
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I haven’t heard much about any mechanical engineer applicants. First wave of acceptances took all (10) of my sons friends from the same school- none were engineering majors. We have heard nothing/no decision. Any insight? Should we be anticipating rejection at this point?
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Mechanical Engineering is one of the lowest admits at SLO.
At this point one should assume denial or waitlist and move on to their acceptances and schools still waiting on. There might be a pleasant surprise still to come from SLO but odds are not favorable.
This years pattern is similar to the history for SLO so take that as evidence to shift focus.
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Cal Poly Pomona also has its admitted students day on April 13. My friend’s daughter is currently trying to get a feel between SDSU and CPP. I had recommended going to both events only to discover they are on the same day/time and just far enough from each other to make going to both too difficult.
My son was admitted to Mechanical Engineering on Monday. He looked at admit percentage of applicants and said 6% are admitted to MechE…. Not sure how he came up with that.
RE: Question on disability accommodations
Yup. You must start the process early. My son waited until after the fall quarter started because he was resisting the idea that he needed any accommodations. He even did Quarter Plus so he had plenty of opportunities to start the process before the rest of the school descended. The wait caused a major delay in him getting the accommodations he needed. So he spent most of the first quarter without any.
He will need to submit documentation of his disabilities and what the consequences are. So new notes from doctors that say more than just “this patient has this diagnosis”. Including what the impact of the diagnosis is on college is important. I also uploaded a copy of his last IEP. That’s just informational though. The IEP does not flow through to college. This process starts from scratch. It’s just helpful to have documentation from the IEP of what the challenges were, what the accommodations were, how long they’ve been an issue, etc.
My son gets extra time for testing, he goes to the DRC for a private testing room, he can access the DRC for quiet study rooms, he gets priority registration (his meds make it impossible for him to concentrate in a class later than 4pm and early classes don’t work either due to difficulty getting to sleep (also from the meds)). He also got priority housing due to needing quieter locations (we didn’t know this was a major issue for him until a year in the red bricks. We learned. We got a new note from his doctor about the stress he experienced in his dorm.) So, as an engineering major, this year he’s in Mustang Village for his second-year housing away from the center of everything and in a room looking out on the hills. He is regretting not choosing a top floor though. He has a 4th floor room that he loves, but he does not love hearing his upstairs neighbor walking around at 2am.
For the testing accommodations, he contacts the DRC when a test is coming up, and the DRC works with the professors to schedule the day and time DS will test. It’s a negotiation between the student, DRC, and profs and he doesn’t have any problems getting them scheduled (when he’s not late with his requests. But even when he’s been late it’s been accommodated… it’s just stressful until it gets scheduled. But that did teach him to plan ahead and get his requests in on time.)
I highly recommend looking up possible college accommodations for your child’s diagnoses. Priority housing never occurred to us until after DS had such a difficult time his first year.
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