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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is your DC’s major?

Cal States are great IMO but different from other UCs or other large universities in that they are more vocationally focused, have less breadth and don’t do research. This works really well for kids interested in one of their areas of focus or regional kids just looking to get a business degree. Different Cal States have different strengths.

Cal Poly has excellent engineering, CS, and architecture programs. [b]Premed can be done as all the STEM courses are there but not sure about whether it can offer shadowing and good counseling for premed. No idea how pre med kids get research opportunities there. [/b]Degrees like business, graphic arts, education, agriculture are all there too. Architecture/engineering are the hardest programs to get into while agricultural business is the easiest. There is a wide gap in academic capability between the two groups.

Cal Poly and other Cal States are not very strong for social sciences or humanities. The exception being psychology which is very popular.

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The faculty still do research https://bio.calpoly.edu/content/student-research-opportunities

I went to Cal Poly and my college BFF's daughter is now there as a biology major/pre-med.  They live in SLO and her (the student's) father is a doctor. So she gets plenty of shadowing working with him and colleagues (no idea how much the college does with this but there is a big hospital in town). And she does research with a biology professor. Biology is extremely selective there, 4% admit rate was the latest I saw. I don't know anything about med school preparation but she had many options and her doctor-father was very enthusiastic about her going to Cal Poly.[/quote]

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