<p>I’m pretty sure that their target class enrollment for transfers is about a 1000 and 3000 freshmen. There are a number of reasons why the acceptance rate is so low. Cal Poly Pomona has become more selective but like every other campus is facing budget problems. There were around 40,000 applications this year for Cal Poly Pomona. I expect that number to go up, especially with all of the successes CPP has had this year.</p>
<p>I think it has a lot to do with the fact that they can’t accommodate a large number of transfers without denying freshmen. I’d place most of the blame on the budget cuts for that. For Fall 2009, there were 5,290 people who applied as transfer students. There was a 72% admission rate that cycle. The following cycle for Fall 2010 the number of applicants jumped to 10,470! There was a 33% admission rate that year and for Fall 2011 34%. All years they accepted between 3330-3800 transfer applicants even when things were going okay in the early 2000’s. They’ve still kept that expected number and a lot of people choose to attend elsewhere so they usually do get their target enrollment of 1000. According to the Common Data Set For 2011-2012, they only enrolled 750 transfer students. That must explain why there were more late admits during August.</p>
<p>You have to take into account anyway that it’s only a certain amount of people coming here that were accepted as transfer students. If they’re taking 3000 some transfers and about 20 people post their acceptances/stats on here, it’s not really giving you the whole picture.</p>