Why isn't Cal Poly San Luis Obispo higher ranked?

alamemom
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:52:25 +0000

Simple. Its name is too long.

This made me laugh, because “Cal Poly San Luis Obispo” is neither its nickname (as LasMa points out ) OR its official name. The official name is the twenty-syllable mouthful:

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
http://www.calpoly.edu/

maybe tk is on to something…