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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Cal Poly reminds me of HEALD College on steroids. SLO has a great reputation for it's engineering, accounting and agriculture programs, but it's education lacks real UNIVERSITY qualities. It's humanities, social science, liberal arts and hard science programs are lacking academic rigor and depth. I attended Cal Poly and then transferred to UC Santa Barbara. If you want a true university experience, I highly recommend you consider attending a UC school. As college educated people, we are expected to know something about literature, art, history, philosophy, politics, etc.....Cal Poly offers a one dimensional education for one dimensional minds. It's students are essentially being trained to become worker bees. This is the main reason students in the technical majors are heavily recruited by Silicon Valley companies. If you want a good vocational training, you can't go wrong with Cal Poly. The college has poured millions of dollars into labs and engineering classrooms, but has done very little in the way of improving it's other programs. The campus library is on par with what you would expect to find at a community college. A university experience is supposed to be much more than training for a job, it's suppose to challenge, nurture and open your mind to a whole new ways of thinking and seeing the world. You can't do this at Cal Poly, if the school lacks proper university course offerings, faculty and facilities. If you desire a Heald College experience, then Cal Poly will be the place for you. Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Social Life: C+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 05 2009 1st Year Male -- Class 1999    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=56660&uid=127'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Computer Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I find that most people who are from NorCal or are in the college of engineering or architecture has the same opinion as me: Cal Poly isn't a great college experience. This is probably because Cal Poly is famous for these 2 colleges, and the work you must do in these programs can be intense. So most of these students feel stressed, and also alone because they are often busy doing work and when they try to go out, there really is nothing to do and they are usually the ones who don't have a really close group of friends. I find also that a lot of NorCal people tend to hang out with NorCal people because the school is mostly SoCal people and these two sides, for the most part, aren't best friends with each other. They are just classmates at most. I thought Cal Poly was going to be a great school with a friendly community, but it doesn't fit me. Education Quality: A-, Social Life: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Sep 24 2008 2nd Year Female -- Class 2010    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=54481&uid=127'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Accounting  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Living on campus without a car my first year was really difficult. There is excellent public transportation, but I wasn't used to using public transportation, so I didn't and I felt like I was locked onto campus. I loved the school my first year, but not the people. It took me taking action and getting involved to realize that my kind of people did exist at this school You really have to get involved. It makes all the difference. Don't worry about the course load; you can always drop extracurriculars later if you need to. Education Quality: A+, Social Life: B- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 31 2008 2nd Year Female -- Class 2010    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=48611&uid=127'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Physics  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant CalPoly is pretty much a "sit there, shut up, and memorize the opinions of the lecturer" school. Free thought and open discussions are rare and discouraged by the conformist atmosphere. It's not what I would call an "academic" institution in the full sense of the word. But it is technically proficient, hence the name. It's best described as a over-hyped trade school in disguise. I think some of my high school courses were more challenging than most CalPoly courses. That said, it's cheap. And the name is highly regarded in the field (mainly for the quality of the architecture, engineering, and ag departments...3 fields at which CalPoly actually excels). If you are looking for bang for your buck, CalPoly is a great deal, and if you are looking for money after graduation, CalPoly's name on your diploma should get you a good job. If you are looking to actually grow as a person--good luck, you won't get any help here. Perceived Campus Safety: A, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jul 15 2006 4th Year Male -- Class 2007    Forward  Blog it! 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