<p>I have either csula or cal poly pomona. Which one should I chose and why?</p>
<p>Anyone please?! I need help.</p>
<p>cal poly pomona is light-years better in the technical fields. You didn’t say your major.</p>
<p>Will you live on campus? If so, the clear choice is CPP. It’s much less of a commuter school, and offers better programs in a number of different fields.</p>
<p>I plan to major as environmental biology.
That’s the only issue I’m not sure if I can dorm. My parents are against me dorming after a situation that occurred to my older sister. I really want to dorm.</p>
<p>Even if you don’t dorm, CPP is the better school, IMO.</p>
<p>Dorming is required now.</p>
<p>Dorming is required only for those who live outside the local area, which admittedly may apply to you. </p>
<p>[1st</a> Year Student - Res. Requirement](<a href=“http://dsa.csupomona.edu/uhs/first_yr_res_requirement.asp]1st”>http://dsa.csupomona.edu/uhs/first_yr_res_requirement.asp)</p>
<p>Even if dorming is not required, you need to dorm and get the once in a lifetime experience. Pomona is the better choice.</p>
<p>Why would pomona be a good school? Why is it worth it to dorm?</p>
<p>What is your budget like? Is one of these significantly less expensive? Can you commute from home to either of them?</p>
<p>Usually it is cheaper to live at home and commute. In some locations, it is less expensive to share an apartment and do your own cooking than it is to live on campus and eat in the dining halls.</p>
<p>The simple truth is that nationwide, more students live at home and commute to a local college, community college, or university, than live in dorms on campus. When you add in the numbers of students who live in off-campus apartments, you will quickly see that the on-campus residential experience is the minority experience. Some people like it. Some don’t. If you can afford to do so, and you think you would like it, fine. But if your budget won’t allow for it, or if you know that you wouldn’t like it, that is OK too.</p>
<p>The thing is that I can’t afford to go to college hoping on fafsa, grants, and scholarships. It’s easy to commute on both.</p>
<p>The Cal Poly schools are more UC than CSU. What is your major? If it is a STEM degree you will get a better education at CPP. Something like humanities is more even.</p>
<p>No need to dorm if you are within the CPP area, per the link I posted above. Xtremepower’s highly pro-dorm comments are based on him looking forward to college him/herself.</p>
<p>Well I live in la and they are telling me that I’m required to dorm. I don’t understand why. </p>
<p>I plan to major in environmental biology. Which one CPP has.</p>
<p>If you can’t afford to live on campus, and the university would require it because of where you live, or just because they require it in general, then you can’t attend that university. You need to go to a place you can afford.</p>
<p>*which only CPP has that major.</p>
<p>Because its required in general.
Either way I can’t afford anything. But my family managed for dorming with my sister. I dont come from and middle class family.</p>
<p>I apologize for asking for your major twice: I realize now you had already answered. </p>
<p>CPP is the better program but as happymom said, if you can’t dorm and the university requires it, you can’t go there. If CSULA doesn’t have your major, you might want to go to two years of CC and reapply at some other school that does. Or take environmental science at CSULA. </p>
<p>I do note on the CPP page that they will make exemptions to the dorming rule in special circumstances. You may want to look into it.</p>
<p>Have you gotten your aid pkg yet?</p>
<p>What is your EFC? Do you qualify for Cal Grants?</p>
<p>How much will your parents pay for college?</p>
<p>Seconding the suggestion to ask for a waiver of the on-campus requirement. Contact them, and ask what the process is to request that waiver.</p>