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

LasMa
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:21:52 +0000

>>Why isn’t Cal Poly San Luis Obispo higher ranked?

Simple. Its name is too long.

Harvard, Princeton, Yale, CalTech, MIT, Stanford, Penn, Columbia, Chicago, Duke.
Maximum 4 syllables.



No one calls it “Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.” It’s “Cal Poly” or “Cal Poly SLO” (the “SLO” is pronounced as a single syllable). So it meets the max-4-syllable test.