CP SLO vs UCLA DECISION!!

ucbalumnus
Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:16:51 +0000

Oddball390:

During a boom, UC students will still have to go looking for jobs. During a recession (or a boom), Cal Poly finds a job for you.



Cal Poly’s impressively high job placement rate may be more due to the type of student (more career oriented), rather than the school finding them jobs. Certainly Cal Poly is well known enough to attract recruiters to its career center (but so is UCLA), but the difference may be more due to the students paying more attention to career prospects early in (including internships and such long before senior year), whereas UCLA may have more “grad/med/law school or bust”, “academic idealist”, and other similar students who pay less attention to career prospect.

On the other hand, this is mostly speculative, since UCLA does not have any career survey results available. (Cal Poly does have quite a bit of career survey information available on its web site.)