Please help me choose a college Cal Poly SLO, UCSB, or UCI

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<p>Yup, it is your list; but might I point out that your list is comparing apples and oranges?</p>

<p>You are parsing SLO by major, but the UC numbers are campus-wide, which includes the athletes and all other special admits. And I have no doubt that the Eng numbers at Cal, for example, are much higher than those for L&S, or the Colleges of Public Health or Environment. I would guess that the same would be true for UCSB Eng and UCI, (just as it is for SLO based on your own numbers list). </p>

<p>If you wish to use SAT numbers solely as a decision criterion, feel free to do so. But you might want to take off the blinders and at least compare like for like. :)</p>

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<p>@taehunchoi it is hard to rank UCSB and the other UCs against Cal Poly because Cal Poly SLO is usually ranked on the ‘regional’ college list, not on the ‘national university’ list where the UCs are ranked. However, there are specific departments where Cal Poly SLO is very highly thought of and occasionally these specific departments are ranked separately (CS for example.) To rank the SAT score in math of a sociology major at UCSB against the math SAT of an engineering major at SLO isn’t measuring apples against apples, however. </p>

<p>Generally, as I understand it, SLO aims at a job right out of college, and while the UCs do as well - if you plan on graduate school, the UCs might be stronger in their preparation for that, overall. Both schools are strong and a good student will have opportunities to do extremely well at both, in these fields, imho. The outcome would be much more directly determined by the student effort than the difference between those schools, in most cases. But the schools are different and have a different feel and life style, and different people will prefer different ones, completely apart from academics.</p>

<p>I will say to the OP however, that SLO isn’t that far from SB and if the Halloween party in Isla Vista is a distraction, it will still be a distraction from SLO, since that stretch of road is well traveled during that period of time…</p>

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<p>Here is some engineering information on UCSB, and you can use the site to search for information on the other colleges, as well: <a href=“http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6143/screen/7?school_name=”>http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6143/screen/7?school_name=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;