<p>I think we need to chill out a bit here. This thread started by mentioning one innocuous statistic, and not a claim that one school was better than the other. The significance is that Cal Poly Pomona has had to comply until recently with substandard CSU imposed admissions thresholds compared to UCs. For example, until a few years ago, a person with a B average and a 400 on the SAT was guaranteed a spot. After decades of being easier to get into than all UCs, some CSUs (except SLO) have only recently started to apply their own standards to become as attractive and as demanding as lower level UCs like Riverside. I think that it’s a significant milestone for CPP considering that it only took two years of ramped up admissions standards to catch up to UCR (in just one regard). </p>
<p>Also, the fact that a regional public university can have a top 20 program (even among 140+ schools) in a popular field such as architecture, is very significant considering it beat out the flagship research unis of most states and many well known privates. </p>
<p>BTW, I’d rather be accused of using too many statistics than none at all.</p>