<p>Although we live in Asia we are not going to remain here for very long now, especially since both kids are going to be back in the U.S.</p>
<p>As far as I am concerned all I want is for my kid to be safe and happy and get a somewhat decent UG degree. His plan is to get a Masters eventually but who knows!!</p>
<p>Honestly I meet people almost everyday who are obsessed with HYPSM!! I am really overdosed by the brand talking at our school.</p>
<p>I was in I-banking in NY, London, TokyoâŠso I know ;)</p>
<p>My MBA from Baruch College did not gross anyone out, and did not stop my advancement. It was my work that mattered the most but having a Masters definitely helped with the promotions.</p>
<p>P.S. Carnegie Mellon is very well known outside the US too and the kids that go there are the tippy top kids, extremely bright and hardworking. S1 met a freshman this summer from there and was raving about how smart this kid was!!</p>
<p>pixeljig, My husband was a Carnegie Mellon grad in the 70âs and his dad was a Carnegie Tech grad in the 40âs. It is great to see how far CMU has come over the years with some of itsâ programs (robotics, CS,etc.).</p>
<p>Drive out of UCLA down Sunset Blvd in either direction, and you might pass by the spirits of Beau Bridges, Jack Black, Francis Ford Coppola, Jim Morrison, Bertrand Russell, Judy Chicago, David Ho (pioneer AIDS researcher), Ben Stiller, Elinor Ostrom (first woman to win Nobel Prize in Economics), Jim Morrison, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (mayor of Los Angeles) and a few other people who managed to carve out decent careers after attending a public university.</p>
<p>The $2.5 billion shortfall was a worse case scenario for the entire UC system. Berkeleyâs portion was a fraction of that and was made up by increasing tuition and enrolling more out-of-state students.</p>
<p>And itâs Yudofâs job to say the sky is falling. Thatâs his jobâŠSound the alarm bells about worse caseâŠbut have a plan of action to alleviate the impact.</p>
<p>I am not sure what you are basing your assessment of Cal Poly SLO on. Since you obviously did not go to engineering school there and you really know SQUAT about the quality of its engineering education.</p>
<p>Firstly, Cal Poly is not Stanford/MIT/HYMPS. Nobody ever claimed that.</p>
<p>Secondly, Cal Poly engineering is frequently seen as a comparable to many of the UCs and for good reasons.</p>
<p>Regardless of how you interrupt your own PERSONAL metrics of measuring the outcome/quality of an engineering education, Cal Poly does have one of the MOST successful employment placement track record of ALL public CA universities; this is especially true for its college of engineering (including CS), and architecture.</p>
<p>Cal Poly has some of the highest starting and median salaries for ALL public universities in the US (#3 in the US). It is bested only by UVA, and Cal, and tied with UCLA and UCSD. </p>
<p>So if you are looking at Cal Poly in terms of its ability to produce well compensated graduates, then CP is doing a fine job and probably better than most universities with similar budget and student population.</p>
<p>And since you seem to be so fond of USC, its graduate engineering school has a special admission relationship with Cal Poly undergraduate engineering. Qualified Cal Poly engineering graduates are fast tracked into USC graduate engineering school. So it seems your favorite school, does not share your same critical view of Cal Poly.</p>
<p>Shorty: your citation of an innovator is jack black, ok then. And coppola went to a private ug then usc. Where did you learn to do research and comparisons, a csu?</p>
<p>Op: I suggest scu. Going public is an exercise in mediocrity, even at the so called best public such as Cal were you are assured of long lines, large classes, and an environment that produces tomorrows middle managers. But if thatâs what you want for yor kid than save your money and send him to a uc or scu.</p>
Your posts say a lot about you, pacheight. Youâve been spreading some very inaccurate information and your attitude (especially as a parent) leaves me very unimpressed.</p>
<p>One of my neighbors, a top rocket scientist at NASAâs JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena) where the Mars Rover was designed, is a proud Banana Slug (UCSC alumunus). Of course, maybe pacheight considers that to be a stoner career. Maybe Jack Black, who was a member of fellow UCLA alumnus Tim Robbinâs acting troupe on campus, isnât a tech innovator, but he is a comedy innovator, and I would say both his and Tim Robbinsâ careers would be called successful, despite attending a California public university. The most successful person I know personally (the creator of âSpongeBob Squarepantsâ) studied marine biology at Cal State Humboldt, not USC film school (which my niece attended, but since graduation she has worked in a dog kennel). However, her aunt and uncle, who attended UCLA film school, wrote the screenplays for âNational Treasureâ among other movies that were box-office hits. </p>
<p>I think what matters in most cases, for most of us, is not where you get you degree, but what you do with it. My niece is still paying off her USC student loans because the dog kennel doesnât pay very well.</p>
and get a somewhat decent UG degree. His plan is to get a Masters eventually but who knows!!</p>