<p>I think i would choose ucsd, ucla, and berkeley for sure over slo. But for the other UCs i think i would have a hard time deciding. How about you guys?</p>
<p>well it really depends if you plan on going to grad school it probably is a better idea to go to a uc such as irvine or davis</p>
<p>if you plan on just getting a bachlors it might be a good idea to go to cal poly over irvine and davis</p>
<p>I would most likely choose UCLA or Berkeley over SLO if that's the case. SLO's engineering program, I would say, is better than Irvine, Davis and SB.</p>
<p>Cal Poly focuses more on job training while UCs are more focused on overall education. In any case, the UC grad is generally more prepared for grad school.</p>
<p>I chose Cal Poly over UCLA, Davis, Irvine and Riverside for engineering. In my opinion berkeley is the only UC with a better engineering program.</p>
<p>i agree. the only uc that is better than poly is berkeley in regards to engineering..but then it also comes down to whether ur a hippy or someone conservative..if you like bums then go to berkeley :-D</p>
<p>Political orientation is irrelevant when choosing to go a top college, almost all top-ranked universities are liberal (Dartmouth is the only notable exception I'm aware of).</p>
<p>no need to get offended, all im saying is that poly is pretty conservative, with the huge ag base and the lack of diversity it is inevitably a republican campus</p>
<p>and the bum comment was actually intended to be quite literall..not that someone liberal likes bums, just that berkeley is a home to many homeless haha</p>
<p>i hate those stereotypes of berkeley....</p>
<p>Berkeley is the only public engineering school in CA that I would consider over Cal Poly SLO. Berkeley has chewed up a large many smart students. Cal Poly isn't quite as hardcore.</p>
<p>i'd say berkeley and ucla</p>
<p>why not UCSD or UCSB (top20) or UCI and UCD (top40)</p>
<p>Cal Poly is not very distinguished inthat critieria</p>
<p>You are looking at Graduate School rankings. That has virtually no relation to undergraduate rankings.</p>
<p>undergrad rankings are similar to graduate for UC but cal poly is not part of graduate rankings. :)</p>
<p>I'd say all of them, in my case. Berkeley is to far from home. UCLA is overcrowded. My friend's smallest class is 168 students and she is a junior biochem major. For one of my planned classes in PASS at cal poly, is 64 students for chem 124, the average being 32 students for most my classes.</p>
<p>I don't know how you can learn in such a big institution. </p>
<p>As for political orientation... Cal poly is pretty conservative. I'm a liberal though =p</p>
<p>As for engineering, Cal Poly is ranked number one in its league.
We are top for masters and undergraduate ranking. The best!</p>
<p>As for graduate... we would not be in a graduate rank system. Why?
Cal Poly is not a graduate focused institution. There are no PHD's handed there. They focus on undergrad, and they do a great job at it.</p>
<p>Personally, I wouldn't choose a university that highly focuses and funds their graduate programs, while over-filling and neglecting their undergraduate programs as many large doctoral universities happen to do. Your looking for your first 4 years (bachelors) and possibly next 2 years (master's) to spend your education at. Don't base it on a institution that focuses on the last 2-4yrs, but on the first six years, your foundation.</p>
<p>six years? you planning to stay undergrad for that long?</p>
<p>six years includes your masters.</p>
<p>They're all good. Both D's are in engineering (CS). My one D chose UCSD over CalPoly and the other D chose UCLA over CalPoly - not that there's anything wrong with CalPoly - they just liked the other schools better and they're more selective schools which appealed to them as well. Note - they also both turned down UCB even though UCB is highly ranked - they just didn't like the location and some other attributes about the school as much.</p>
<p>Make sure you check out all of the attributes of the school including location, recreation, travel to home on breaks, etc. Also remember that around 40% of the engineering students will drop that major and switch to a non-engineering major so it's a good idea to make sure the school has good offerings in other areas of interest as well.</p>
<p>Chose SLO over UCLA, UCI, UCSD, USC</p>
<p>For undergrad Engineering that is...grad school is a complete different story,</p>