Cal Poly Pomona received a record number of applications for the 2019-2020 academic year, with more than 57,000 from prospective first-year and transfer students. The pool was a nine percent increase over the prior year. While applications have been growing…
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Cal Poly Pomona is among the nation’s best for first-year student retention among universities with student admission rates above 50 percent, according to a new listing by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The university ranked No. 30, with 89 percent…
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Cal Poly Pomona will welcome more than 7,700 incoming first-time and transfer students this fall, the largest class in the university’s 80-year history. The increase comes as the campus, which is ranked No. 47 on Money Magazine’s list of “The…
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Cal Poly Pomona has its newest pick for the CPP Common Read. Students in FYE courses in 2018-19 will read Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, a nonfiction book that delves into the phenomenon of public humiliation on the…
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A university program that helps first-year male Latino and African-American students thrive academically and socially has received a grant to bolster its efforts. The Los Angeles Scholars Investment Fund, through the California Community Foundation (CCF), has awarded the university’s Project…
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All first year students are invited to submit entries to the First Year Experience essay contest. The due date is Jan. 31 and the prize is $50 in Bronco Bucks and dinner with guest speaker Curt Stager. For more information,…
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