Thank you for the info!
Wait list notifications came out on March 1st last year. I can’t say for sure that ends acceptances, maybe it will be different this year, but after wait list notifications came out last year there were no new acceptances posted.
Still waiting for CS but pretty much giving up hope. Very discouraging considering my step sister was accepted with a Cal Poly CSU GPA of 3.4 and many C’s on her transcript. Major: Environmental Science. I know it has a high acceptance rate but with all these great stats posted, there are so many great applicants that are going to lose out. I am happy for my step sis but just difficult when she really has no idea clue of what she wants to do and I on the other hand am completely set on CS.
Thank you makes sense if they move to wait list notifications the acceptances should end.
I wonder why admissions would tell me they are still sending out acceptances until mid March? - strange I called and spoke to someone on Friday and that is the answer they gave me.
Admissions is so secretive and I think that they purposely hide info from us. I called to ask how many applicants typically get put on the waitlist, and they said there was NO WAY to find out, not even on the internet. And yet I found the data anyway.
Looks like I didn’t get in for CS with a 4.2 CSU GPA and a 2200 SAT. A little disheartening 
@baystudent
Have you gotten an actual rejection yet? There still time AND the waitlist to hope for otherwise.
Waitlists are bad at all schools, so bad infact that many, including CP no longer supply the data to IPEDS, the publicly accessible data system all services like College Board’s Big Future mine. They offer waitlists to soften the blow, but if no one gets in, it’s really a soft rejection. Last year, or the year before, the last year Notre Dame supplied the information, they offered waitlist slots to over 1500 students. They admitted…ZERO. So, don’t give up on Poly yet, but don’t put all your eggs in their basket either. Good luck.
@marleyandme Don’t feel discouraged.
Admission to the college of engineering is especially difficult in retrospect to the other colleges. CS so happens to be one of the most selective majors within the college of engineering, with a 4.7% acceptance rate.
One of my friends in my CS class got accepted from the waitlist around April/May… and he had like a 4.6 GPA 2360 SAT and 800’s on all his SAT 2
Pretty strong stat’s for getting wait listed! I can’t imagine that there were other kids stronger than a 4.6 and 2360 SAT. Very competitive!
Appreciate all the info that has been shared - it does seem like the wait list is a “soft rejection”. I almost think the rejection is better so you can move on.
@SantaClarita @marleyandme You never know what happens year to year with admissions, so don’t give up hope yet! Fingers crossed!
No, but I’m pretty hopeless as of now, haha
Hang in there - let’s hope they still are sending out acceptances!
Applied for Econ, checking every day! )-:
In case anyone is interested in the historical wait list stat’s - don’t have the 2014 if anyone wants to add…
2013
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list: 1603
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 15
2012
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list: 2,555
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 1,064
2011
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list: 642
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 49
2010
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list: 1,746
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 31
Source: http://www.ipa.calpoly.edu/content/publications_reports/cds/index
For those Engineering students that have not heard, something good may come your way. My son is a freshmen at UC Berkeley in Engineering and he knows several students that got rejected to Cal Poly SLO and then accepted at the end of March at Berkeley! Good luck!!
I agree with @sunflowermom: My younger son has several friends that were denied at SLO for ME but accepted at UCB/UCLA/UCSB and UCSD last year. He was denied for CS but very happy at SDSU.
I have heard stories of valedictorians with very high scores getting rejected from Cal Poly and then going to schools like UC Berkeley, so I’m a little doubtful of the theory that they just accept people with the highest scores first and call it good. Does anyone know anything about colleges rejecting overqualified people?
Cal Poly does not reject overqualified people. There are FAR too many accepted with very high qualifications for that to be true. Those applicants with high test scores, rigor and GPA who were rejected, knowingly or unknowingly left a requirement off of their application. CP doesn’t care either way and will not reopen a rejected application for omitted information. As for getting into Berkeley after Poly rejection, I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, for several majors Poly is more difficult to get into than Berkeley, or any other CA state school for that matter.
Found out that I was accepted into Civil Engineering on February 24th after checking my web portal.
Weighted academic GPA: 4.17
SAT: 1700 (590 M, 550 CR, 560 W)
I didn’t take the ACT or Subject Tests
I have many ECs (Football, FBLA President, CSF, Rotary Interact Club VP, Link Crew VP, Student Board Trustee, S-Club, Senior class officer).
To be honest I wasn’t expecting to get into Cal Poly SLO, I thought my stats were too low and I know it is extremely competitive for engineering. I’m definitely not complaining though 