Hi, My daughter was accepted into Cal Poly’s political science program, her major of choice. She is currently attending the Polycultural event this weekend and having a great time.
She was also accepted to CSUN (Cal State U Northridge), which is literally 10 min from home and they have a great political science program and are more cost effective. She could easily live at home, but she is looking forward to going away for college.
I totally understand that it may be a great experience for her to go away to Cal Poly to study, but am concerned with the student loans she will accue, since she was not offered scholarships and her college fund will not cover full tuition (it would at CSUN).
Other than the experience, what are your thoughts about Cal Poly’s poli sci program? Really trying to justify the added cost for her major of choice…
My son was accepted into their History program. They offered us 2000 for scholarship. From the tone of your post I think you are conflicted and perhaps trying to win an argument based on logic and economics. Whereas like all young adults about to embark on the independent part of their life, they are going by emotion. Nonetheless, I too, have mixed feelings about my son and Cal Poly. He hasn’t decided yet, the recent events though has given me a lot of pause. Also, Cal Poly is mainly been about Engineering, Agriculture and Business. I’ve heard less said about their liberal arts and what I have read doesn’t say much.
I think if you just consider education it is a good school. My worry is that the recent events are a buildup of years of problems that had been swept under the rug and now with social media and the hypersensitivities we as a society seems to have, that unfortunately Cal Poly will not be a quiet little college town any longer.
I don’t want my child’s education to be a casualty of someone else’s agenda or undergo some sort of collateral damage. If he was to be involved in any of that, I want it to be after graduation.
As a former coach in youth sports I learned early on that you can never force kids to do anything, they have to want to do it, you’ve just got to creatively somehow set them on the path you want them to go.