I’m hopeful.
Thx
That would make a lot more sense - why ask for an alternate on an application if they “only admit under first major”
thank you!
SLO has issues…
2 years ago my son did not get an acceptance in the first wave. He contacted admissions after a week as he hadn’t heard he had been rejected either. They told him there were more to come. He waited. At the end of March, having still not heard any news, he contacted them again and was told he had been rejected and should have received notice weeks earlier (as in before he was told “there were more to come.”)
It was frustrating for him. Fortunately, by then he had received other acceptances, opting for UCSB and contentment.
But the whole rollout felt sloppy.
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I have a question about Cal Poly GPA. In my D25’s CSU application her weighted GPA shows up at 4.0 but that doesn’t look to include the DE courses added on her app. Does Cal Poly see the modified GPA on their end, or should the calculation have included the DE courses?
Edited for correction information.
The CSU GPA on the Cal State application is only a-g courses taken the summer after 9th to the summer prior to 12th which should include DE/CC courses but not the SLO GPA.
SLO will recalculate using 9-11th a-g course grades including the DE courses which are listed under the College section. However, if the student already meets the 8 semester Honors points in the GPA calculation with their HS courses, the DE courses are not used for additional Honors points but they will be considered for rigor points in the SLO alogrithm.
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Thank you so much for the quick reply! The DE courses get her up to the capped value.
Are people getting in today?
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??? I do not work in admissions have no inside information.
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“The CSU GPA on the Cal State application is only HS courses and not the SLO GPA” This is technically incorrect. The CSU GPA on the Cal state application is HS courses AND college courses that were entered in the College Section and assigned an a-g. 100% true. But yes, it is NOT the SLO GPA - which includes 9th grade.
We have a 3rd year at CP. No word yet on the second kid 
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Interesting, my daughter had a 4.0 in 9th grade so that wouldn’t have an impact on her SLO GPA but the college courses were definitely not factored in.
Same! It would be so nice to have the Senior there with the Freshman. Oh, why oh why won’t SLO just cooperate with my perfect plan!?
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Not sure what you mean by the college courses not factored in. If they are atleast 3 credits, Cal state transferable, and meet an a-g, the college courses will go into the Cal State GPA - if taken summer after 9th through summer after 11th. That is a fact and you can go to the Cal State app and open an account and play around with it. You have to manually “match” the college courses to an “a-g”
That is interesting since this issue came up with a student I was helping on calculating their CSU GPA for the SJSU impaction index. When the student and I inputted the HS and DE course grades and honors points into the CSU Calculator on the CSU website, we got one GPA but the CSU apply GPA was different and the only difference we could find was the DE courses were not accounted for although DE courses were A-G matched they were not being included.
Well I help students every year and am very close to the technical side of the application. I can tell you with 100% certainty they do add in. And as you know for the Cal State they are counted x2 — obviously no more than 8 extra points. The key is being after 9th and before 12th and the manual matching. I don’t use the CSU calculator I use the actual CSU Apply Application.
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I do not want to derail this discussion but whatever the reason, we could not get the GPA’s to match. I know that the grades are counted twice and get 1 honors points
This from the CSU DE Guidance link:
Why is it important that students report college courses under the college?
The Cal State Apply application is programmed to automatically provide students a full year of credit and one honors point for college coursework. If
students do not report college courses correctly, they will not be provided the full year of credit or honors point.
Thank you for the clarification and I will edit my post.
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Thanks! It actually will be counted x2 with up to 2 honors points (as long as the student doesn’t go over 8 total). I know the wording is strange but that is what happens. Thanks for the conversation!!
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