Cal Poly’s application is asking prospective students if they would be willing to start in the spring semester, for research related to planning year-round operations, according to university spokesperson Keegan Koberl. The university is not expecting to enroll students off cycle for the coming academic year.
The deadline for first-year and transfer applications is Dec. 1, according to the Cal Poly website.
Animal science freshman Zoe Avent said she would maybe be open to having a delayed start if she was an undergraduate applicant and Cal Poly were to start offering some students to start a semester later.
“Maybe if it was like my top top school,” Avent said. “I was between two different schools as my top and I chose Cal Poly because it was closer to home but I know I had friends in high school that started in the spring instead of the fall for schools they really wanted.”
Statistics junior Max Hernandez said as he is right now he would be okay with having a delayed start, if given the option.
“It would be nice to have a break in between straight graduating high school and coming here,” Hernandez said. “I think it would be a little more time to decide what I want to do.”
Aerospace engineering sophomore Manuel Zepeda would use the delayed start to work, as he is paying for a fair amount of the tuition out of his own pocket.
“I would’ve done that just because of the fact that I would’ve been able to get more of my bank account, just so the fact I can go to school with not as much stress knowing that financials are kind of taken care of, because I spent that whole fall semester that I would have at Cal Poly, just working,” Zepeda said.
Business administration sophomore Suhani Kashyap however does not think she would opt in for a delayed start.
“Honestly, I don’t think I would sign up for that during the application just cause I feel like taking a gap semester would hinder your ability to graduate on time,” Kashyap said.
