Quick, Cal Poly SLO or UCDavis?

vballmom
Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:57:31 +0000

I know a little bit about anecdotal reasons for Cal Poly’s low graduation rate in CS and it seems mainly due to lack of prior experience in programming, plus lack of preparation in math and physics. If students fail or drop a course or two in the sequence early on, it can be difficult to catch up fast enough to be able to graduate in 4 years. Some courses might not be offered the following quarter and so the student might have to wait another year to retake.

http://eadvise.calpoly.edu/site_media/uploads/majors/csc/csc_2011-13_flowchart.pdf

Cal Poly would be around $15K less than UC Davis for out of state. You can save a lot of money living off campus after your first year.

Silicon Valley companies routinely recruit at Cal Poly, and graduates in industry return to campus looking for interns and proposing ideas which become Capstone projects.

My son will be graduating in 4 years as a CPE major. He had to figure out the waitlist and priority registration games, plus plead with a couple of professors to get into their classes, but it all worked out in the end.