<p>@bjornredtail</p>
<p>I know this is actually a 2 month late reply, and let me just start off by saying, sorry you did not have a good college experience, I truly am.</p>
<p>My question to you is, if you don’t like your current major why did you choose to major in it in the first place? Why didn’t you bother to take the time during application process to thoroughly research these things? Cal Poly makes it painfully clear that they frown upon transferring majors. Why didn’t you bother to thoroughly look at their curriculum and what it details? The Cal Poly website has so much information for you, one can only question your own researching abilities. I don’t know why you are whining this much when everything from the start has been your own choice and no one else’s. During application time, did someone choose your major for you? During application time were you or were you not the one that clicked submit? </p>
<p>To be honest, I think you chose the major you chose purely, PURELY, on prestige. Of course of you did that, there is a good chance you may not like what you are studying. If you think Cal Poly is overrated due to its faults as you listed out (and I do not know if it is true or not) you had PLENTY of time to transfer to a different college entirely. Or maybe, you didn’t want to lose the prestige you have at Cal Poly? Maybe your own pride stopped you from maybe going to UCR which has a great engineering program that (as you said you wanted to do) allows you to “build” things. Maybe it was your own pride that stopped you from maybe going to UCM which has a GREAT transfer rate to other colleges (around 90%) In the end, regardless of what you said, you whined away all the time you had to actually do something about what you were unhappy about. I suggest using the internet more for research rather than just ranting and crying about your own laziness to do something. </p>
<p>I am sorry that you became so disillusioned with the college experience and that is caused you to apparently waste away your years of education that you paid good money for. Nothing, is ever as it seems, you can only research as much as you can and predict how it will be. Your life, your time, your choices.</p>
<p>It is made perfectly clear to all students before entry, that Cal Poly 1. requires you to determine your major, they will not let you go undeclared 2. they absolutely frown on transferring majors. Again, I am sorry you don’t like your major, nor your life in college. But bluntly put, if you want to place blame, blame yourself for not researching more during one of the most important life decisions you will have to make.</p>
<p>I really am sorry if it seems I am being harsh, but i know several of my friends that desperately wanted to be at Cal Poly and researched thoroughly and painfully long about the university, to hear you whine so much about your time there is a little irritating as so many would love to be where you are. You could have always just dropped out of Cal Poly, save some money, same some angst and fustration, and go to a community college (see how thats like, btw)</p>
<p>I know, if I don’t like my experience at Cal Poly next year, I only have myself to blame and I know full well that I will do all that is within my power to change it for the better. As for me I don’t care about prestige in name, Cal Poly just seems to be able to offer me more in experience and skills than the other colleges I was accepted into can, like UCDavis.</p>
<p>EDIT:
It occurred to me I never said how Cal Poly made it painfully clear that they did not like major transfers.</p>
<p>If you actually read the wall of text that was there even before you started your application, it says there explicitly, that Cal Poly actually (in a much more harsher way) does NOT allow major transfers at all. It doesn’t even say that it is frowned upon, they just say, they do NOT allow major transfers. </p>
<p>If you dont’ remember that wall of text, you probably just blindly clicked on the “I have read Cal Poly’s policys and understand, proceed to the application” and also, apparently lied in saying you have read it.</p>