gg89

I heard about the science department incident months ago..how they were going to close it down or something because of the lack of money.

anybody know if the lack of funding is affecting other classes at cal poly pomona? like the art department?

517lakeside

You will find that budget cuts will affect all the CSU and UC schools, not just Pomona.

purpleube

Have you read the comments at the Students Review website? There is a lot of negative commentary there, mainly on majors in the business school because of the new dean, but some complaints from students in other departments too because of overcrowding in classes. I'm not a student of Pomona so I don't know how representative those comments are of the school in general, or if the problems are mainly confined to business. At least I didn't see anyone badmouth the art department.

raptrex

wheres the students review website?

purpleube

You can google it . . . For some reason, CC wouldn't let me post the link.

drj

the summer schedule at cal poly pomona has been cut to less than half because of budget cuts and the fall schedules cut so badly that no new students are being admitted.

the CSUs who have been raising lots of private monies are getting by okay will be better positioned, but the many problems on the pomona campus plague it. they don't have a provost and don't have four deans. the leadership is severely lacking there.

517lakeside

No new students? I was admitted to Architecture. 3.5 unweighted 29 ACT

purpleube

I was admitted as a transfer into the urban & regional planning program. I've heard that they are reducing the size of their incoming class, but haven't heard them closing admissions for this fall altogether. Although they probably should. Looking at their schedule for this fall, I see that many class capacities have been halved . . . And since they moved up class registration to May, I think that would leave incoming students, who wouldn't be able to register until later, less chance of being able to enroll in their desired courses. I've struck this school off my list for this reason.

517lakeside

Returning students probably would not be competing for the same classes as first time freshmen. I heard from admissions that there were only 80 Architecture seats for the fall so the admissions reduction is probably true. You are going to find cost reduction measures in place at any public school. Did I mention recession?

purpleube

In the major I applied for, I would have to start from freshmen level classes because no community college around here has classes that articulate to their urban planning major. I'm hoping that universities with a larger endowment would be insulated more from the cuts (I'm thinking UCLA or UCI).

drj

what i meant is that all of the fall admissions decisions have been made. it is possible that some potential students are yet to be notified but the news is forthcoming. the fact that anybody was admitted prior is not germane to the point. yes, the preregistration period was moved forward since no new students are to be added, and class sizes and number of classes have been changed from prior years.

517lakeside

This might be off the wall, but the University of Oklahoma has your major in its architecture department and applications are open until April 1. I was accepted to their architecture program also and even paying out of state tuition it is probably cheaper than a UC school. Their admissions folks said they have seats if you will come. Much friendlier than Kalifornia.

samp

i go to cpp, second year student. basically, i probably won't graduate in 4 years because of the lack of classes and inability to register for the ones you need. Most major core classes are gonna be hard packed. How long this will go and how far? not sure, but i hope it ends soon, along with the recession.