UW or Cal Poly SLO

westwardho
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:23:38 +0000

My S was accepted at both schools - but chose Cal Poly and is loving it. Ironically, in the interim we’ve moved to suburban Seattle and he would be considered a resident this fall. At CP, he was accepted into General Engineering, but just switched (quite easily) to Computer Engineering (CPE). And despite the switch, remains about a quarter ahead thanks to AP credits. He’s doing very well and getting classes has not been a problem. We were also concerned regarding getting accepted into a major at U Dub. It seems to create the same amount of angst as getting accepted and enrolled into university in the first place. Cal Poly also gave him a modest “Outreach” (OOS) scholarship which helps and at least indicated their interest in him. U Dub is a great school - and I’ve got two nephews that recently went there (BS/MS in ME and a '13 BS grad in Organic Chem), but it’s a very different vibe - an urban campus that is more commuter than residential student based. I hoping that he may consider U Dub for a masters program - but he seems to be enjoying California and will be likely be looking at grad schools there.