most people who moved to go to cal poly pomona are usually looking an adventure
I don't think csupomona is anything special like usc or ucla.
There are differences from other csu though. Csupomona does seem to live up to its motto "learning by doing" For example, my friend and I are both computer engr but he goes to csulb instead of cal poly pomona. We're both 3rd year students and are well into the cirriculum. We worked to diagnose an electrical problem on my car one day and he had no idea what amperage and voltage are. I had to explained it to him. Unbeleivable! He finished close to half of his CE cirriculum already! I guess csulb does not put emphasis on labs like here at csupomona.