New Freshman Class Stats

DunninLA
Tue, 20 Aug 2013 02:59:17 +0000

Honestly I don’t like how admissions screwed the pooch so badly on this one. Are you telling me they had no way of knowing the yield would be so high?

I actually have a gut feeling that this is in reality a part of a growth plan for Cal Poly… that is, that the extra 28% was engineered into the process. However, they should have first built additional dorms. Most students absolutely do not want triples. When our first daughter toured UCLA on admitted students day, and went on the dorm tour, her first words upon returning were: NFW. Triples? That to her was a metaphor for how UCLA had not managed its growth, and was not student friendly. What’s next, a contest to see how many students can fit in a phone booth? (that’s obvously a dated reference, but you get the idea.)

And that’s what bugs me a little… if our student had wanted a larger school like UCSB, she would have accepted her admission to UCSB instead of Cal Poly.