<p>I have three questions
- I have better scores than a ton of people who got into cal poly (2000 sat (800 math, 650 writing, 550 reading)
Was it because math was my major? an 800 in math isn’t good enough? is it because I am white that the liberals affirmative action?</p>
<p>second my gpa is 3.59 and I went to one of the most difficult schools, I bet I would of got a 4.0 in any other school in fact I have taken 7 classes in a community college this year and have about a 3.7 gpa without any weighting and they are not easy classes</p>
<p>my point is how come these admissions favor people from bad schools. I hated my school because everyone was a robot memorizing to get into college and not learning. I am not crying because I know eventually I will be succesfull so it wont matter I am just sayign this is NOT FAIR</p>
<p>also could this be because of my major was math, if I remember my councillers and the people doing the admissions said that major choices except engineering should not effect the descisons.</p>
<p>A couple of kids at my Ds school got rejected from Cal Poly, but on got into NYU, another to USC, and another to Reed</p>
<p>What can I say?</p>
<p>Cal Poly rejected many kids this year that seemed to have higher stats that some of those that got in</p>
<p>Tufts? who knows, if you got in, that is wonderful, jsut trying to figure out Cal Poly’s “system”</p>
<p>whats a travesty is that any other school I would have got perfect grades</p>
<p>I mean my school was a school for robots</p>
<p>but ne how its not the end of the world, things like the wars Israel and America are facing are a lot more important, but it hurts when you get cheated because you went to a so called " advantaged school"</p>
<p>It’s weird this year. I got in as an Economics Major and a friend of mine was rejected as an econ major. He had a better GPA and better SAT’s than me as well. I’m thinking it was my EC’s that boosted me. I have an internship at a hedge fund and I remember hearing CPSLO really likes experience in the major you’re applying for.</p>
<p>I feel the same way you do as I was rejected by UCSB and UC Davis, but know kids with worse grades that got in. It sucks being rejected, but I’m sure you’ll end up somewhere you enjoy.</p>
<p>With those stats you must have gotten into other top schools, right?</p>
<p>Could you be more specific what this school of yours was? I know that UCSD will award points if your school is in the 4th or 5th quintile, so going to a good high school doesn’t help, at least for public colleges. An argument could easily run, though, that SLO realizes that your application could be accepted elsewhere, and would instead opt to award a seat to one less…fortunate as you were. </p>
<p>Also, it probably was the fact that your major is impacted that you were rejected. My friend had a 2.8 or so GPA with a 1900 and got in…to the bio department. As SLO is slowly gaining more reputation, it is probably finding itself similarly engulfed by the tide of applications that swamped the UCs this year.</p>
<p>Finally, I would like to disagree with you that there is a “liberal agenda” regarding affirmative action, and that your race had any bearings on your acceptance. Sure, there might be isolated cases of people with bad stats being accepted, and coincidentally being URMs, but they are the far far FAR exception, not the rule. If people are from bad schools, though, they WILL be rewarded with extra consideration from admissions officers, more so to equalize the playing field when competing with persons who have had more opportunities to develop the numbers and characteristics of their application.</p>
<p>but then there is a school where you are not treated as a human you are treated as a robot and its much harder to get good grades unless u are a robot
and if I would have gone to the school most of my friends from middle school went I would have gotten a 4.4 or whatever gpa you guys get</p>
<p>Look this is unfair</p>
<p>they discriminated against me because of my schools so called “high academic ranking” that is wrong if an 800 in math on the sat isn’t good</p>
<p>and yes affirmative action is a liberal agenda, I am not racist against anyone. Affirmative action at first might have been good, but its gone way overboard now. and isn’t it illegal in California anyways. Also why do they penalize my parents for working hard and making enough money to not be poor.</p>
<p>its okay, i don’t feel bad i didn’t want to go to cal poly, i didnt get into any other colleges ucsb ucsd, ect… this is unfair or maybe its because I am jewish…</p>
<p>its just the bottom line is I and many other people i am seing on this website got treated unfairly</p>
<p>I feely similarly. Alot of people with inferior stats than me, got in due to thier parent’s lower income.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, two Hispanic students, one of which was a valedictorian, filed suit against Cal Poly becuase they didn’t get in. They claimed racism was the cause. Is Cal Poly racist against Hispanic people or Jewish people? Maybe both?? Or maybe it’s just a selective school.</p>
<p>I didn’t get into UCSB, but had a higher GPA and SAT than their average. I thought it was weird, since I considered it more of a safety (obviously wrong on that one), but I moved on. UCSB rejects TONS of applicants, just like Cal Poly. It doesn’t reek of racism to me.</p>
<p>Nothing in college admissions is definite, so it’s not about fair or not fair. You obviously had much better economic conditions than others and evidently the college admissions officers found that your academic performance did not meet the standards which you were held to. Students from worse off backgrounds who did get accepted, however, were accepted because, despite being economically disadvantaged, they were still able to sustain a considerable high school academic career.</p>
<p>Talking about race is ridiculous. Just because you’re Jewish and someone is an Hispanic will not affect it as tremendously as you indicate. While one or two isolated incidents of clear affirmative action might be exhibited, they are few and the exception. We often fail to take into account circumstances that may be more represented in certain minorities than others, like “easy” schools and such. Decisions are made to ensure that society as a whole DOES become color blind, because society right now sure is turning a blind eye on the plight of many minorities.</p>
<p>Finally, Affirmative Action has been banned and has been banned for many years now. If it was still in place, there would obviously not be a reason why UCLA was unable to admit more than 90 African Americans last year, 20 of whom were athletes. There is no liberal agenda that is conspiring to take seats out of privileged upper/middle class families to place into the hands of the working class. The only time this myth comes alive is when people are rejected from colleges. Not willing to doubt the strengths of their own applications, they instead seek to find justification in the “unfair” nature of the system. And also, they look at the score as a composite, not individually. It’s just a number to crunch, and I’m pretty sure you haven’t been the first person with an 800 in SAT I math that they’ve turned down.</p>
<p>I found this on the CollegeBoard website.</p>
<pre><code>* 49% had h.s. GPA of 3.75 and higher
- 23% had h.s. GPA between 3.5 and 3.74
</code></pre>
<p>You probably didn’t get in because of your 3.59 GPA</p>
<p>Very well said Peppers.</p>
<p>naterobinson, sounds like you went to a school that was somewhat like mine. where’d you go anyway? sorry about your rejection…</p>
<p>Iv’e come to the conlusion that GPA matters the most OUT OF ANYTHING. I got into cal poly with a 4.5 weighted gpa, but my SAT sucks (1700). I also have friends that didn’t get in and have a 3.8 gpa, and a 2000 SAT. I also got into UCSB while many of my other friends got declined with high SAT scores.</p>
<p>I agree with Peppers, and Nate. GPA should matter the most, it shows what you have been doing for FOUR YEARS, not on one day. I got into Cal Poly and UCSB with a 1810 SAT score, but with a 4.23 GPA. </p>
<p>Also, I believe colleges have categories that you can possibly fall into, white poor female from california, and when these categories (whatever they may be) fill up, then they can’t take any more of those, so if you fall into that category you are competing with those people, not everyone who applied. So you may be held up to a higher standard within your category.</p>
<p>well i beg to differ. in some schools, its a lot harder to get a high GPA than in most others due to the rigors of the educational programs. if we’re trying to make both fair, then make the GPA important based on how your high school is ranked in the country/state…whatever. </p>
<p>a GPA of a 4.0 in the number one school in california is NOT the same as a 4.0 in one of the lower ranked schools.</p>
<p>I really despise it when people can not stop b****ing about their personal problems with no real goal in mind. I don’t understand what the op is trying to get from this post other than pity to soothe is rejected conscience. My advice would be to forget about Cal Poly and focus on something relevant to your future instead of making two redundant posts based on the same bitterness. </p>
<p>Nate should realize that life is never fair. Consider the Israeli occupation for example. </p>
<p>By the way, with a 3.5 GPA Unweighted and 2050 SAT (690 Math, 670 Reading, 670 Writing), I got into Biomedical Engineering at Cal Poly.</p>
<p>However, do you see me whining about how i didnt get into Berkeley and how i really deserve it because i have a patent and a year’s experience in engineering research?</p>
<p>Please try and understand my point.</p>
<p>what are your guys reasons for not being accepted to UCSB, it seemed achievable and thats where i want to go</p>
<p>There will always be a case where someone with a higher gpa than yours will get into the school you got rejected by. It hurts and it dam well ****es me off most of the time, but there is no point in wailing in the misery of rejection ( as i have done so myself). It is just a waste of time. Think about it as the college’s loss of admitting a person who really will attend their college, their 20,000+ dollars down the drain, not ours. Its better to move on. From my experience of applying to colleges is that GPA matters the most above all. I screwed up my junior year and I am paying for it now. I am happy with my decision and am looking foward to college to achieve my goals. Good luck to everyone else.</p>
<p>oh yeah, i got rejected and had 3.6 gpa (weighted) and 1750 sat.</p>