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<p>Sorry, my bad.</p>
<p>thanks for all the feedback!! i actually like slo quite a bit more, i was just seeing if there was any more doubt about it. im 98 % i want to go there, over say scu or usd. im pretty sure im gonna ED.</p>
<p>S worked at SCU this past summer on their Solar Decathlon Project where SCU built a totally environmentally friendly house from ground up and won third place in an international competition in Washington DC. S was one of 2 high school students worked among many SCU students. S enjoyed it very much. The SCU students were fun, friendly and hard working.</p>
<p>H used to work at a company that recruited heavily from CalPoly SLO. H worked with many CalPoly SLO graduates and thought very highly of them.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I just got accepted to SLO regular decision! im grateful i didn’t get in early decision to slow now.</p>
<p>I visited SCU last week and LOVED it. I also visited USD, and didn’t quite like the feel. Secretly, I was hoping to get accepted to slo, and rejected to scu, or accepted to scu, and rejected to slo. now my guess is ill get accepted to both. and i love both, so its gonna be a hard choice. they both have pros and cons. if i could get any more opinions on SCU vs. SLO that would be appreciated.</p>
<p>the other colleges id be accepted to most likely would be SDSU, chapman, and usd, if anyone wants to support one of those. but im pretty sure its between scu and slo now.</p>
<p>thanks!! this is gonna be a hard decision!</p>
<p>If you have the time before decisions are due I would visit each top choice again. Most schools will have an “Admitted Student Day” or weekend. My daughter went to one for SCU. You get to stay overnight in the dorms, attend a class, eat in the dining hall, etc. She actually did this for her three top choices and ended up in Oregon at Lewis & Clark. But the experience was very valuable. You have until May 1 so take your time and be sure. About 15 kids from my daughter’s graduating class went to Cal Poly and have graduated. I think they all loved the school. We have one family friend whose daughter just graduated from SCU and she loved it. My younger daughter has friends at USD and Chapman. They are all very happy with their choices. But it has to be right for you. It has to feel like “home”, where you want to be for 4 years. Think of the surrounding areas and what you might like to do in your free time. My older daughter wanted to be in a cool city but still be close to the mountains for snowboarding. She loves Portland and has been teaching snowboarding on weekends during her spring semesters. So think about all aspects of the school as your major may change and there are other intangibles to consider. Congratulations for getting into SLO and if you go there you will love it and have no regrets. Just take you time with the decision. Good luck!</p>
<p>S has many classmates who have gone and are going to SLO, love the school, but by JR. year all comment that the main negative was that it is so isolated- and apparently that gets old by the third year. All report they wish they had considered that one important aspect. Just a thought- great school, but so is SCU, son was accepted there too (decided to attend his 1st choice UC). I will say once accepted, SCU has alumni contact you, current students email you, and many invitations to events…they really make you feel that they want you. Have fun with your excellent choices!</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Thanks for the feedback.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ll probably visit both again.</p>
<p>I heard that with 20,000 18-24 year olds in one concentrated area at SLO, there is always fun stuff to do. But I see your point, it’s kind of in the middle of nowhere. But in a beautiful place in the middle of nowhere haha.</p>
<p>Major pros of SLO: Cheaper, more students, hands on learning.</p>
<p>Major pros of SCU: wellrounded education, while SLO just teaches you purely professional skills, better business rankings and great connections and networking, especially in silicon valley. seems like they work hard to make you feel that they want you and connect you quite well, while at slo your just a number. </p>
<p>this is going to be really hard! more feedback appreciated!</p>
<p>First, are you 100% set on Business Admin. If not, SCU might be easier if you later on decide to change your major. I’ve heard it’s hard to change major in CalPoly. However, you’ve admitted to one of the most impacted major, it probably not that bad to change into others except engineering/architect.</p>
<p>Secondly, do you have in mind what track/concentration under Business Admin.? You can compare which program offer the area you might want to pursue. Not all business program offer everything. If both have the area you’re interested, look into the curriculum. The easiest might be to compare the course selection</p>
<p>Thanks for responding. Good point. I’m 90% sure on business. </p>
<p>Right now I’m leaning on finance. But maybe marketing or management. I heard now at SLO you can only do one business concentration, while at SCU I can maybe do both finance and management or finance and marketing for example. i know scu’s business is a bit better, im not sure about concentrations though. ill look into that, thanks.</p>
<p>thanks for responding.</p>
<p>Sorry I might confuse you. SCU and CalPoly grant business degrees in different way. In SCU, college of business has finance, management, marketing as different major, Bachelor of Commerce, I believe. While in CalPoly, college of business grants Bachelor of Science in Business Admin. Instead of declaring major as in SCU, you declare concentration in the area of finance, management, marketing respectively. So simply speaking, the finance major in SCU is equivalent to the Business major w/ concentration of finance in CalPoly.</p>
<p>hmmmm interesting. Is there much of a difference? Or is it just the name?</p>
<p>I believe technically there’s a difference. I didn’t do any research on these things but my logical thinking is - In order to offer a major, the college has to meet some curriculum requirement, like providing a certain amount of courses in depth and variety. </p>
<p>In my observation, most large business program offer different majors (accounting/finance/marketing/etc). You can check out SDSU, it also offers different business majors, instead of one “major of Business Admin” with various concentration. I heard it’s the biggest business program in Calif.</p>
<p>But I don’t worry about this particularly, since both program are well established, as long as it can meet what you need.</p>
<p>ok thanks. yeah that makes sense. any more feedback from anyone?</p>
<p>My best feedback right now would be to relax and wait until you are definitely accepted to all these schools. Isn’t SLO the only one so far? I know the others are likely but you need to wait and see. Also, my daughter was accepted to SCU and offered a $9500 per year merit scholarship. Having that kind of information might make a difference when comparing the prices of schools. You will be hearing from all schools within the next month or so and when you have your final list of acceptances you can analyze the pros and cons of each and re-visit each as I suggested earlier.</p>
<p>Yeah, good advice. SLO is the only one so far. But the housing for SLO starts really soon. Ofcourse it’s refundanble, I just wanted to start thinking / getting feedback. Yeah, with a scholarship I would prolly go SCU. Good feedback.</p>
<p>i got into SCU! and waitlisted at USD. im still leaning cal poly slo. i didnt hear of any news of a scholarship at scu… </p>
<p>any more feedback? im gonna visit slo again soon.</p>
<p>If you didn’t get a scholarship at SCU, Cal Poly is probably a better value for you. Is money an issue?</p>
<p>I got a 10k scholarship at scu. so itd be about 40k a year at scu and 20k a year at slo.</p>
<p>my mom is actually encouraging me to go to scu. we have the money, but ofcourse spending less is nice. personally i slightly prefer slo.</p>
<p>anymore advice?</p>
<p>For what its worth, both Santa Clara and USD are listed in Business Week as among the top 50 undergraduate business schools (SC is 39 and USD is 28). See [Top</a> Undergraduate Business Programs 2010 - BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/10rankings/]Top”>http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/10rankings/) . Cal Poly is 64th. Take rankings with a grain of salt, however. I’d go with the place you think you would be happiest for 4 years.</p>
<p>When my kids had trouble deciding between 2 choices (not only colleges), I would advise not to close doors which cannot be reopened.
So choose the school that is more selective and more difficult to transfer into; then if you aren’t happy with your first choice you will have an easier time transferring into your second choice.</p>