<p>REJECTED. Electrical Engineering. High School overall GPA of 4.2. Salutatorian of his class. SAT wasn’t high enough I think. It was just under 1900. Oh and he is a white boy. Is that a consideration?</p>
<p>Rejected for BME (in-state)
4.0 UW GPA
2180 SAT Score (1400 CR+M)
lots of AP classes with extra courses
strong ECs and leadership</p>
<p>I’ve already been accepted to UCSB with Regents and UCSD, and I would much rather attend one of these schools, but it’s still a bit disappointing that I was rejected. I think BME was just a very competitive major, which seems odd because I thought BME was one of Cal Poly’s weaker engineering departments. Oh well. Congrats to those who were admitted and good luck to everyone with the rest of your college decisions.</p>
<p>@dogeboi
Jesus Christ!!! With those stats I would’ve thought you had a chance at HYPS with a decent hook. </p>
<p>REJECTED Bio major
GPA UW 3.8 W4.2
7.5 APs
1800 SAT
690 MATH 530 CR 580 WRITING </p>
<p>Rejected for Mech Eng
4.15 W GPA
34 ACT composite
Plenty of AP classes</p>
<p>Quite surprised/disappointed</p>
<p>Rejected for BME instate
UW: 3.8
W: 4.4
ACT: 33 (34 if superscored)
Lots of ECs, Boeing internship, etc. but I’m not sure how much that makes a difference.</p>
<p>Now I would just like to say a few words about my experience with this system. Let me say beforehand, I’m not lashing out in frustration at the school for rejecting me. I have had these opinions since the beginning of the process and am simply expressing them as this is probably the last time I will be on this forum.</p>
<p>I would like to mention, the whole process actually made me reconsider Cal Poly as my #1 choice and for the sake of the school, it would be a good idea to possibly rethink the system so record numbers continue to pour in. I know I’m just some insignificant kid on the forums but I honestly might tell someone not to apply to the school just so they don’t have to go through what I did. It was a really hard process from start to finish and I don’t want other people to have to endure that.</p>
<p>Anyways, I get the Oracle site needs the trickle down style admission but as a student, this has been an aggravating and nerve wracking process from the start. To see “No decision has been made at this time” for the past month or so while everyone else has been hearing back has caused quite a bit of anxiety in my life and I know it has aggravated many of my peers as well. The hourly grind of having to sign in to the site, then clicking one link, then another link, and then finally waiting to see if a decision has been made is truly a very difficult process to constantly endure. </p>
<p>Overall, I have just experienced a lot of frustration with the system. Having the out of state kids hear, then the acceptances, then the slow trickle to the rejections was extremely hard for me. There should at least be some system that allows for everyone to hear at the same time. I don’t care if it is online or through snail mail but some uniform system where it all is within a weeks time I feel would make it so much easier for all the hopeful students. The Oracle site does not even send a notification in many cases when a decision has been made. I received no mail,email, or text. I just saw the rejection notice and had to sit there processing for a little while.</p>
<p>But one still may be asking, what is the main point behind this kid writing this? My answer to this, I honestly am writing this just so the system may get changed for the better next year. I don’t want another year of hopeful students going through all of this. I doubt I could make that much of a difference but if some SLO admissions person reads this, please consider the process in which acceptances are released from the viewpoint of the students. The whole system has made me feel completely insignificant and has been so discouraging. Save students the aggravation of having to see their chances slowly slip away and send them at least a heartfelt rejection letter along with the other decisions that go out. Please don’t continue the message that comes up on Oracle.</p>
<p>@parkreation, your max gpa was 4.2, however you do look very high, now the tough questions, as 2018 dad asked were you well over their required courses, particularly math and science but the others helped too, was everything turned in on time? Did you have every A-G requirement including the strange ones? If not it is a massive penalty. If everything on these list is a yes and CP really is a first choice I might be tempted to double check for a mistake, it is hard to get them to check but I think if you manage to reach the right person you might find either you made a mistake entering the information or they made a mistake. Otherwise the Bioengineering department will be scary amazing next year.</p>
<p>D rejected today Bio</p>
<p>@zacattack16</p>
<p>I’m on the 3rd stage - what got me really peeved is I’m not even wait-listed. Hope someone would post some stats for that.</p>
<p>Rejected
Animal Science
3.9 W GPA
27 ACT</p>
<p>@czs1994</p>
<p>I met all the a-g requirements, I guess the BME program will be truly gifted next year. :)</p>
<p>Not that it matters, but I am seeing people admit to some problems. Missing a required class or omitting it such as not mentioning you took it in middle school can cost you I believe 500 points each. As many lists show, UC Berkeley and UCLA are up there with Stanford, and other top privates, UCSD is usually above Cal Poly for some majors, then CP is generally next with UCSB and SDSU a touch below. The people who mentioned they were denied but got in at other schools pretty much fits this. Some schools are also a lot bigger so may have more room for majors than Cal Poly. I have a feeling 72 semester units, even counting 7th and 8th grade math, and maybe two semesters of foreign language (1 year middle school only counts as 1 semester high school in foreign language) might indicate a mistake in counting, Extra Curriculars/Sports/Leadership etc., carry little or no weight. Difficulty of school carries no weight. As I said before if you took the max extra classes, had close to an unweighted 4.0, an SAT above 1500, ACT Composite above 32, didn’t miss any requirements, you might have made a mistake, if it is your dream school try to find out if there was a mistake and if you can appeal.</p>
<p>Rejected. Communications. Accepted at UCSB, SDSU, CPP, CSLB, CSF, Loyola Marymount. Waiting to hear from UC Santa Cruz and UCI. Will probably go with a UC. Hated the admission process. No more checking the portal. BTW, you will never convince me Cal Poly SLO is better than a UC or even USC as one idiotic person wrote on this thread. </p>
<p>P.S. I need to add that SLO is probably better than UCM. But the other 2nd tier UC’s. No way. Unless
USNews college rankings are wrong. Even SDSU and UCR are ranked higher than SLO on USNews rankings. Just a reality check for those that feel bad they didn’t get in. Anyone that got accepted at SLO would probably jump at the chance to be accepted at UCLA or Berkeley or even UCSB or UCSC.</p>
<p>Second daughter was rejected. Math 4.1 GPA, middling SAT. Wasn’t unexpected. Thankfully CP wasn’t in her top 5.</p>
<p>Not that it helps right now for others, but sometimes things happen for a reason. First daughter was rejected last year. Business. 4.45 GPA, good SAT, great ECs, etc. Did get into both UCSD and UCSB; go figure.</p>
<p>Went to UCSB as math/econ major. Absolutely HATES econ. She would be screwed at Cal Poly if she had gone there. Now a financial math major and wants to be an actuary. Much better for her.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone.</p>
<p>
Please don’t bash the school because you were rejected. FWIW, my daughter will attend UCLA/UCB first befroe SLO but she will have to think hard between UCSB and SLO. SLO is a regional university so it’s ranked in a different category than the UCs. But as far as other stats go (i.e. starting salary, %of going to grad school, etc.) SLO has better records than UCSB/UCSC.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s bashing, while waiting to get in it is normal to fantasize that it is as good as UCLA or Cal, but then many realize it’s still just a state school - it’s SJSU, SDSU in a nicer campus. Hard to change majors, impacted, hard to get classes, graduate in four years, old crowded dorms - but it is cheap. You get what you pay for in colleges. Many that get rejected and many that get accepted will realize this, and many will continue the fantasy. Just how it is.</p>
<p>Cal Public Ranking according to entering SAT 75th percentile:</p>
<p>UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UCSB
CalPoly
UCDavis
UCI
UC Santa Cruz
UC Riverside
San Diego State
Cal Poly Pomona
CSU Long Beach
UC Merced
Other CSU’s below this</p>
<p>See other SAT based rankings:
<a href=“Complete Ranking of America's Smartest Colleges”>Complete Ranking of America's Smartest Colleges;
<p>Rejected – strangely, after acceptance to UC San Diego O_O</p>
<p>MechE
4.0 (both at time of admission)
2230 SAT
AP to take in May</p>
<p><a href=“IR Home - Institutional Research - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo”>IR Home - Institutional Research - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo;
Look again on the target numbers by your major, and then given a good reputation of Cal Poly, implied promise of employment, relatively low cost - a lot of people I know went for ED and filled out these precious spaces even before RD came along.<br>
So MechE had just 185 spots, after ED that maybe got reduced to 85 or even less.
I have not seen the ED stats anywhere - and that is the Key to your puzzle.
Lesson for next year - if you love Cal Poly - commit to ED</p>