What should my sat be?

DunninLA
Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:52:44 +0000

I think your answer partially lies within the various threads discussing ED and Regular admission from last year. However, admissions can be confusing because some high stat applicantso don’t get in, and some middling stat applicants do.

For engineering, I’d focus on 30+ on Math ACT, or 700+ on Math SAT. Reading 650+/28+

Cal Poly uses some sort of computerized system in which points are assigned for various criteria. GPA weighted including ALL honors courses (not just the UC approved Honors courses that get +1), ACT or SAT, with Engineering caring more about the Math score, # of math courses since 7th grade. # of science courses, etc. I don’t think anybody has ever seen this point scale published, but it is undoubtedly similar to the one UC Davis and UC San Diego use, and which was explicitly published about three years ago. I don’t think they publish those anymore, for obvious reasons.

Oh, one very important difference between Cal Poly and UCs is that UCs do not count 9th grade in its UC GPA calculation. Cal Poly DOES count 9th grade in its calculation. Therefore, a person with a few C grades in 9th grade but mostly As in 10th and 11th might get into UCSB or UC Davis, but not get into Cal Poly.

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