<p>@ blueskies2day Say what you want. For lots of different reasons not every kid wants the experience offered by the UC system. That is surely no knock on the UC’s, they offer an excellent education from Berkley to Merced. A casual look at the grades & test scores for incoming Cal Poly freshmen and the same for the UC freshmen show a fair amount overlap. It is likely that each and every engineering student at SLO was or would have been accepted to one or more of the UC’s. I have had the privilege to meet hundreds of Cal Poly students, not one of them has expressed any regret for making the choice to attend SLO. The diploma from SLO will get a kid hired just as fast and for essentially the same amount of pay as a UC diploma. Again, no knock on an excellent UC system. Five or ten years after the ink is dry on the diploma, prospective employers will be shifting their gaze from the school name on the diploma to what the applicant can do to strengthen their business. Cal Poly grads are adding muscle to business all over California, quite a lot of muscle. You’re lurking on the Cal Poly CC blog and talking smack about SLO won’t change that.</p>