<p>Rejected-
4.2 gpa
31 ACT
2100 SAT
1167 hours of community service
10 AP Classes
Applied to Mechanical Engineering </p>
<p>I know a guy who applied to ME in the ED round. He was accepted with
4.25 GPA
28 ACT
1940 SAT</p>
<p>Rejected.</p>
<p>I just checked my Cal Poly Portal and I have been rejected, or something along the lines of “You have not been selected to attend Cal Poly.”</p>
<p>Yes, I am pretty sad, because this was along my top choices for Computer Engineering. Just have to wait for UCSD, UCLA, Berkeley, and Irvine coming out in the next few weeks.</p>
<p>As always, good luck to the rest of you.</p>
<p>A bit my more info about myself:
GPA (unweighted): 3.83
GPA (weighted): 4.11
SAT: 2000
Around 200 hours of community service /internships.
Around 100 hours of club activity.</p>
<p>And yes, friends with around 1800 SAT and 3.5 GPA (which isn’t bad at all in terms of stats) have been accepted to various engineering majors. I was kinda bummed when I saw the rejection.</p>
<p>I feel bad for people who don’t get into the school of their choice, but the above situation is a clear indicator that many don’t understand the peculiarities of the Cal Poly admissions process.</p>
<p>It is actually easy to understand how someone can get into an engineering program with lesser stats when you understand that there’s an 800% difference in the selectivity between the easiest Poly admit engineering major (manufacturing) and the toughest (Biomedical).</p>
<p>It’s also easy to see that many people are comparing apples to oranges on GPAs. UW and W have NO relevance to the comparison, only the Cal Poly CSU GPA is germaine.</p>
<p>Lastly, all of the " stats" comparisons gloss over rigor not the way that everyone else measures it, but the way CP SLO measures it, bulk of classes. “10 APs” means nothing at CP SLO. What does is math through Calculus and 8 semesters of English and 4 semesters of arts., etc They measure purely by bulk, with no deference to AP or not.</p>
<p>It isn’t random. If you understand the algorithm and odds, it’s very logical. It is very different than most other schools.</p>
<p>@eyemgh, yeah, that sucks, that pretty much means that someone who was just enrolled in their first year of calculus is viewed the same as me who is in my second year. Also,i could have chosen the easy route and taken cp physics and only ap physics b and would have had better grades rather than going the hard way and taking ap phys b and c. I just think that they should consider that more, to make it more fair to those like me who busted their butts in the harder classes.</p>
<p>This was all forced by the budgetary cuts that made Cal Poly go to an algorithm. </p>
<p>If I was going to assign points, I’d give them for the highest math achieved rather than the bulk of math per se. Like you say, it doesn’t distinguish. I’d also give more points for more years in the SAME language.</p>
<p>With that said, those who take more rigor will be rewarded not by where they get into college, but by the fact that they’ll be more prepared to get out of college.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>What do you think the chances of getting admitted from the wait list are?</p>
<p>@eyemgh, where would you say CE falls on the engineering admissions difficulty? I was accepted, just out of curiosity.</p>
<p>According to CPs target report: <a href=“IR Home - Institutional Research - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo”>IR Home - Institutional Research - Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo;
they are looking at roughly 1500 applicants seeking 125ish spots. If they yield 33%, they’ll have to accept 375ish to get 125. That’s a 25% acceptance rate. Remember, those are projections. </p>
<p>Congrats on your acceptance.</p>
<p>As for wait lists, have another plan just in case. They are fairly well known to bear little fruit.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Problem is that last year, in a lot of these majors, Poly got a higher yield than 33% – making the admissions people incredibly cautious this year about over-enrolling again. Fall 2013 had about 1136 spots for transfers. That number was reduced to just 683 for Fall 2014.</p>
<p>Kosher Bacon, I don’t think you can answer that question from more then a regional perspective. Cal Poly does not have the national reputation to draw top students from every high school in every state like Ivy’s and larger national institutions. It’s way harder around California then people realize though!</p>
<p>rejected.</p>
<p>Major: computer science
GPA: 4.04
SAT: cr 650 / m 650 / w 680 (1980)</p>
<p>I’m pretty bummed I didn’t get in. Hopefully I get into some UC schools!</p>
<p>My son accepted
Major : Mathematics
GPA : UW 3.93
W .4.21
ACT : 26
He is in 3% high rank in mathematic competition in Wa</p>
<p>Is he lucky with low ACT ?</p>
<p>He is waiting UCLA,UCSD,UCSB,UCD,UNIV of Washington, UCI
accepted : Cal-Poly, UCR
UCLA,UCSD : under 20% accept I guess
UCSB,UCD : around 35~40% accept I guess
Univ of wash,UCI : around 65%~70% I guess</p>
<p>He’s not lucky. He just fits the algorithm well for CP. He likely maxes out the CSU GPA and maxes out the rigor section since he’s a math whiz. That means he’s likely taken through at least Calc AB. That bonus alone is close to the points for all ECs. Test scores are third on the list of importance, just above ECs. So, lucky, no. He met the criteria that CP wants. NOW where that score might hurt him and where others who were denied at CP, but might get in is at institutions who are more holistic. For them test scores are more important. Congrats!</p>
<p>As the mom of a math major I would say yes, that is a fairly low ACT. How far has he gone in Math? That might make up for the low ACT.</p>
<p>@taehunchoi congrats on your son’s acceptance. Pretty jealous right now. I got rejected for math major :(.</p>
<p>@eyemgh You seem to know what cal poly is looking for in terms of admittance, do you think you could possibly take a guess why i may have gotten rejected? here are my stats:
ACT: 30 (unsuperscored), 31(superscored): 28 math, 32 science (yeah i know my math is on the low end for a math major haha, but im a very bad and nervous test taker)
Unweighted GPA: 3.32 CSU weighted: 3.62. (had a very bad sophomore year, and practically straight A’s junior year) Taken 8 APs total (1 sophomore year, 4 jr year, 3 senior year) (my school only offers AP classes) and 3 community college courses. The 3 community college courses i took are all math courses (Calc 2, Calc3/Multivariable Calc, and Differential Equations)- if that matters at all. Also took 4 years of science (bio, chem, ap enviro. science, ap bio) and 4 years of foreign language (first year of spanish at my middle school, and ap spanish my jr. year)
Tons of community service and extracurricular and I have a job that pertains to my major.</p>
<p>I’m now not as confident UCSB will accept me since Cal poly didnt take me :/</p>
<p>@eyemgh I appreciate all your thoughts on this thread. I am still confused by the algorithm…and the odds, etc. I don’t find any of it obvious one bit. I have just a simple list provided by my D’s high school that lists all the “requirements” (for the UC/State schools: i.e., English-4 yrs., Math-3yrs., 4 preferred; Soc.Sci.-2 years; Language-2 yrs., 3 preferred, etc.etc. WHICH my D did ALL the preferred and many of them at AP and honors levels) which CLEARLY differ from what I have been voraciously reading on this site this year. As mentioned before…this is my FIRST time through this process and have been very enlightened (and disappointed!) by what I am learning “too late in the process.”<br>
With that said, I agree that I did not do enough research (I can say that in hindsight but from what our D’s school presented at college nights and the paperwork handed out to the “regular audience” regarding application requirements) I didn’t think we weren’t doing most everything right… Not once was there any mention of any of the algorithms, the maxing out on GPA, the fact that having educated parents would put you below in the MCA’s, that AP’s really don’t help you at all (biggest shocker of all), but that the “bulk” of classes is more important, that no person actually looks at your application…I could go on and on. Trust me, we have moved forward. I am just finding this too much of a puzzle to pass by. (And, more importantly, I have other children who might benefit from what I am now learning; as mentioned before, I thank so many of you who know so much and are willing to put it out there for the rest of us newbies!)
And then you learn of applicants we know who have been accepted with lower stats/less demanding classes overall, and even kids who “slacked” this year and took only four classes. Just very eye opening and frustrating because you feel like you’ve done so much right (maybe not everything!)…and those who didn’t really, end up with an acceptance they might not even want! </p>
<p>@tintinucd, I think it’s GPA. That counts for almost half of the decision process. Good luck at UCSB!</p>
<p>@taehunchoi Congratulations to your son. I see that you mentioned a Washington math competition, is he an out of state applicant? From my understanding out of state applicants that are admitted are certainly very qualified but they are not grouped with in-state students for their acceptances.</p>
<p>@Seashel, it is not obvious at all. The process is in fact sort of odd, but if you know where to look, refreshingly transparent.</p>
<p>If you search within this thread you’ll find two links, one to a PowerPoint about the CP admissions algorithm and one about CPs admission predictions for 2014. They hold the keys to the puzzle.</p>
<p>We didn’t know about it until our sons fate was cast in stone. Luckily, he had very strong stats and ECs.</p>
<p>The reason I reference it regularly is to let people who post here know that there’s no conspiracy.</p>
<p>The best way to qualify for CP, in order of importance is: 1) have a high GPA with 8 or more honors or AP semesters 2) take ALL the recommended course work, especially maxing out math to, ideally Calculus 3) get high test scores 4) have 5 hours or more per week of ECs with leadership 5) have a job in the area of your major. </p>
<p>This was all actually conveyed to us by CP, but not in the clinically stark detail that the PowerPoint will give you.</p>
<p>Be well!</p>