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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s so hard to get into any engineering school now.  Unless it’s so bad that you wouldn’t want to attend.  DD was accepted by Cal Poly SLO.  She applied thinking it was a safety.  It turned out that SLO’s acceptance rate was only 8%. [/quote]
oof someone didn't do their hw on SLO.  [b]Yea, SLO is hard to get into for eng/cs.[/quote][/b]

I think you both have it wrong.  Cals are for California residents.  They are very hard to get into from OOS . But it still comes down to - do you really want to do engineering at Cal Poly SLO?[/quote]

Wrong.  US News ranks SLO #6 engineering school in the country without a doctorate program, even ahead of Cooper Union. [/quote]

it's a great school.  Just plan on the 5-6 year plan to actually get the courses you want/need.  If you manage to get out in 4, you can almost bet your technical electives are NOT the ones you really wanted for your interests---they were just whatever still had space or you had the pre-reqs for.   IMO, not worth OOS tuition for the big school experience and all the bad that goes along with it.

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I went to CPSLO in the 90s (business undergrad) and it's definitely a place with serious, focused students. In part because you have to apply into a major, start taking major classes in 1st year, and it's hard to switch paths. The apply-to-a-major thing seems more common now but was more unusual then. So you got a lot of students who really knew what path they wanted to take and were very career focused.

FWIW, I have a couple friends from college who've had their kids go to CPSLO now and they say the 5-year thing has gotten a lot better. Often 5-years now is a choice because the school encourages coops. It did in my day too but it was also a timing strategy to be off campus when you had the worst registration priority because you knew you wouldn't get classes then.

Thanks.  That’s good to know.  I know someone who graduated from SLO with an architecture degree in the 90’s. Even bacj then it was an intense program.  A bachelor’s degree took 5 years.  He said over 2/3 of students were washed out in the first year—either changed major or dropped out.  He said he had to pull a lot of all-nighters.  Seems that SLO is a really serious school. [/quote]
It is a serious school, but it's overcrowded.  That's why for most majors it takes 5+ years.  Literally the kids cannot get into classes needed.  See the other link--only 25 spots for software engineering this year.  SO they are trying to control it but that just means its impossible to get in even instate. [/quote][/quote]

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