<p>Ya the sticking around thing at Cal Poly can be perceived as a love for the school or just kids wanting to hang out and avoid responsibility longer, which is not a selling point. On here I read np getting classes, my dental hygenist tells me her son is bored and only in 12 units this semester cause that’s all he could get. But I think the biggest mislead I ran across over and over was certain people stating their student had turned down UCB or UCLA or UCSD or Harvey Mudd or whatever for CP, when if you read their other posts, you realize they didn’t even apply to those schools. They turned down simply being interested in them, very different than actually getting accepted. That’s misleading and oversell. Evaluating and pontificating on the academics at another institution because they went on an hour long tour/open house is very different than going through the entire process (applying and getting accepted) where a lot of time is spent in deeper research to get to that final decision, or having a kid that actually goes to these other schools. In that case, they would actually know about it. This is a kids life and an important choice is being made, don’t come off as an authority unless you really are, is what I am suggesting. Tell the real CP story without the uninformed bashing of some of the best schools in the country.</p>