<p>What is Cal Poly’s service area?</p>
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<p>bump.</p>
<p>According to this document from 2004, its service area is San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara, north of Gaviota:
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<p>Interestingly, the service area concept was developed for the purpose of school-college relations (i.e., to ensure all high schools and colleges receive information about the CSU system), not as a basis to restrict enrollment. But given this year’s budget crunch, CSUs are giving preference to applicants from their service area.</p>
<p>Given that the population in Cal Poly SLO’s service area is relatively small, they should be relatively receptive to applicants outside their service area. However, given the huge number of applications Cal Poly receives, admission is still highly competitive.</p>
<p>In other words, I don’t think applicants are shut out because they don’t live in the service area, but they may get shut out because the school receives 3-4X as many applications as openings.</p>
<p>wow, that is dumb. I live in Ventura County. I’m only 2 hours south of San Luis Obispo.</p>
<p>Hmm. In my opinion, my city is only 2 hours south, which seems pretty close. I’m still an hour north of Los Angeles. My county only has 820,000 people, so it’s not too crowded.</p>