<p>Can any current students enlighten me as to how these epic budget cuts are actually impacting your experience at Cal Poly? Do you feel like anything has really changed since the economic crash or are things pretty much continuing as they always have?</p>
<p>As an out of state applicant, I am also concerned about tuition hikes. So if anyone can respond to that as well, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!</p>
<p>In the College of Business, we are no longer permitted to pursue more than one concentration. This new rule was implemented hastily this past Summer and screwed up a lot of plans for students. Double concentrations in Accounting / Finance or Accounting / Info. Systems used to be popular here. </p>
<p>Strangely enough, Cal Poly students actually voted overwhelmingly in favor of raising fees last Spring through a campus-wide referendum. But my understanding is that the CSU Trustees subsequently blocked the <em>voluntary</em> fee hike (that the students voted for).</p>
<p>Unless the state can find someway(s) to increase revenue, which is unlikely given the anti tax sentiment, there is/will be no choice but to continue to cut costs and raise fees/tuitions throughout the UC/CS/CC systems. I’m afraid what once was the greatest higher educational system in the world is beginning its spin around the toilet bowl.</p>
<p>The UC system is a joke for undergrads. Classes are jammed packed. Professors don’t give a damn-rat about you, and for the most part you get instructed by some ego-centric suit-wearing brown-nosed TA. Go to a CSU, and get an even better education for a lot less and stop thinking that you are some sort of sub-human for going to a Cal State. Once you start realizing they are fundamentally the same and that a true intellectual thrives anywhere in the world; you’ll really start using your brain in a truly constructive manner.</p>