Congratulations on your solid academic record so far and overcoming some difficulties in your life. An upward grade trend is very helpful for the CSU’s and UC’s.
At the end of Junior year, you need to calculate your UC GPA’s which are the Unweighted, Capped Weighted and Fully Weighted along with Capped weighted CSU GPa.
https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
For Engineering or CS, these are direct admit majors for the Cal States and UC’s, so if you have an interest in pursing these areas, you need to apply to these specific majors. Applying Undecided and then trying to change majors later can be problematic to impossible at several of these schools.
I am assuming your school follows the UC/CSU a-g course recommendations and you will have at least 3 years for a Foreign Language and a Physics course completed by end of Senior year?
Below are the 2022 admit rates for CS which includes some CSU’s if the data was available:
| Campus | CS |
|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 2.9%-L&S EECS-4.5% |
| UC Davis | No data but <20% |
| UC Irvine | 5.8% |
| UCLA | 3.8% |
| UC Merced | 85% |
| UC Riverside | 36% |
| UC San Diego | No data but <10% |
| UC Santa Barbara | No data Historically 5-6% |
| UC Santa Cruz | 60% |
| Cal Poly SLO | 9% |
| Cal State Long Beach | 54% |
| San Diego State | 40% |
| San Jose State | 31% |
2022 Civil Engineering admit rates
| Campus | Civil Engineering |
|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 16% |
| UC Davis | No data but <30% |
| UC Irvine | 23.6% |
| UCLA | 8.0% |
| UC Merced | 91% |
| UC Riverside | No major |
| UC San Diego | No data but <20% Structural Eng |
| UC Santa Barbara | No major |
| UC Santa Cruz | No major |
| Cal Poly SLO | 38% |
| Cal State Long Beach | 51% |
| San Diego State | 48% |
| San Jose State | 64% |
For Cal Poly Pomona, the Civil Engineering threshold was a 4200 MFA which translates around a minimum of a 3.75 CSU GPA. Meeting the threshold does not guarantee acceptance since these can fluctuate year to year.
For CS at CPP, the MFA threshold was 4672 so around a 4.2 CSU GPA to be competitive.
https://www.cpp.edu/admissions/freshmen/freshman-student-profile.shtml
What the admit data does not show is the average CSU/UC GPA for admitted students and how competitive the admitted students can be.
Below a 4.0 Capped weighted UC GPA/CSU will make many of these schools a difficult admit.
Likely/Very Likely: CSUF if local
Match depending upon major: CSULB, CPP (Civil)
High Target: CPP (CS) if Local. UCR
Low Reach: UCD, SDSU
Reach: UCI (Civil), SLO (Civil)
High Reach: UCB, UCLA, USC, UCI (CS), SLO (CS).
For additional Likelies/Safeties consider your local Cal state if it is not one of the schools listed or a non-impacted campus listed below:
Best of luck and apply widely. You might also want to consider WUE schools which could be comparable in costs to the California schools listed. https://www.wiche.edu/tuition-savings/wue/wue-savings-finder/?majors=Computer%20Science