I think SLO likes it that way! (That when you hear “Cal Poly” you think SLO… It’s like… why is UC Berkeley “Cal”?!)
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Northern California = Cal Poly SLO (this may change due to Humboldt)
Southern California = Cal Poly Pomona
I know since I lived in Southern California for many years and attended CPP.
Now that I have moved to Northern California, if I talk about Cal Poly I always have to say Pomona since everyone thinks I am talking about SLO.
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First land-grant university in California.
First UC campus.
Originally just called University of California.
Go Bears!
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I came back here to edit my post as such!
UCB = first UC which is why it’s known as simply Cal
Cal Poly SLO = first Cal Poly, which is why it’s known as just Cal Poly
You learn something new every day!
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I agree with Gumbymom as I think it depends on where you are from. I live in southern CA and we refer to it as “SLO” and not as “Cal Poly.”
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One more piece of trivia just to ease the tension.
UC Davis was originally the University Farm , -the research and science-based instruction extension of UC Berkeley. That is why they have professors which teach at both campuses and offer a shuttle for staff and students between campuses. .
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Cal Poly SLOWWW! 
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So all decisions will still be a few more weeks?? Yikes!!
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If true, this is unfortunate being that their admitted student days would be the following week! Doesn’t allow for great planning, especially for kids who don’t have spring break that week.
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That’s exactly what I’m worried about. My son has been accepted at Humboldt and they’re preview day is the same day.
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I agree. It’s our spring break (OOS Seattle) and we’ve been waiting to plan this leg of the trip. We have 2 other schools we are looking at due to acceptance. Maybe they will have another admitted student day? Considering the timing?
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I don’t think that’s what she said… I didn’t understand it that way, anyway. I also live in So Cal and we say Cal Poly to mean SLO. But what’s in a name! I just want to hear…
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Actually @lkg4answers got it right. If you say Cal poly in Southern California is Pomona and in Northern California it is SLO.
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Not around here (Northern LA County). “She’s going to Cal Poly.” Automatically people think San Luis Obispo.
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Agreed, it’s either Cal Poly, or it’s Cal Poly Pomona.
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I was starting to question myself, so thank you, @Chriseemac!
@Gumbymom and @lkg4answers, I am not trying to be adversarial… just sharing that’s how we say it in our neck of the woods.
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My friend visited Cal Poly SLO yesterday and was told notifications would start coming next week.
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Why do they have to wait for the music & art departments to finish ? How are they connected with engineering school and such ? Is that always the case ?
I feel bad for OOS families who have to buy airline tickets at the last minutes.
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That is rough at least we are only 4.45 hours away we are not looking at anything till we know if he gets in.
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I think they expect you would have visited the school before applying? My D22 also applied to many schools we did not visit, but I guess I figured that’s on us. If we can’t make it to a school on their preview day, we’ll visit on any day we can make it. There isn’t much else we can do. It’s kind of a first world problem.
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