So… Sadly iv been rejected from UC Davis and UCSD. I really wanted to go to either UCD, UCI, or UCSD. Still haven’t heard from UCI but i doubt they will accept me 
. My unweighted GPA is a 3.8 and my weighted is a 4.08. So looks like i’m going to have choose between Cal Poly Pomona and SDSU Webers Honors College now. I heard the Aerospace program at CPP is really good and because its close to LA there are better job offers after graduation and I really want to be involved in some type of space engineering activity after college. Looking through the job listing LA seems to be the hot spot for astronautical engineering. However; at SDSU i got accepted to their Webers Honors College and after attaining a bachelors degree I have a chance of getting my masters/doctors at UCSD through a joint program. I also live in San Diego and am only a few minutes away from SDSU. I haven’t talked to my counselors yet and i’m honestly torn between the two. I really wasn’t expecting to be put into this situation but I really need some help deciding.
Both programs are ABET accredited, so academically they will be the same. So your decision should be based on your social and financial considerations. SDSU Webers Honor’s college has so many great advantages. Just because you attend SDSU, does not mean you cannot get internships and jobs in the LA area, although proximity has its advantages also. Both are very good options. Best of luck with your decision.
Way too early to decide you want a PhD. Few HS students understand the committment this entails, nor have they thought thru why they’d want one and the career prospects/limitations it brings. While I haven’t looked into this particular program, I feel confident in saying you have not found a special backdoor where anyone who wants it can take part. If you would qualify for the program then you’d qualify for a PhD program elsewhere as well. Bottom line you aren’t losing anything if you don’t go to SDSU in hopes of keeping this special door open.
A MS is a good degree for an engineer to have, gives you a slightly higher salary and better promotion chances. Furthermore your competition generally has one; a lot of foreign students get a BS in their home country and then come to the US for a MS which gives them 1-2 years here to look for a job while under a student visa. Every green-card holder you’ll meet (perhaps less applicable in defense jobs that require US citizenship) will have a MS. So see if either school has a combined 5-year MS program. If they do, take it. A lot better to get the MS in one shot and just one extra year. At a joint program they’ll coordinate the classes, while if you apply to some other school for a MS maybe you get out in 1 year and maybe it takes longer (as they discover you’re missing a few classes their MS program requires you to have taken)
You should visit both schools and go to the one you think you’d prefer. Keep in mind, too, that the workload in engineering is huge. More than 50% of those starting in engineering drop out, so think about which school you’d want should that apply to you. As they’ll tell you at orientation: “look at the person to your right; in a year or two one of you won’t be an engineer anymore”.
Thank you so much your thoughts really helped my decision and I think i’m leaning more to the side of SDSU but i will talk with my counselor first and see what happens. And also I think you are right getting a Doctorate degree is very very difficult and i think i will be more than satisfied with a Masters degree.