I’m sorry, @rkumar3550 I know you asked me questions on another thread, but I can no longer find it. I’m new to the forum and having difficulty navigating.
You have a wonderful GPA and test scores. You must be an excellent student. Be very proud, and your stats are very competitive. Your GPA is slightly below the average for engineers this year, snd your SAT is Just above ave for general admission. Have you worked out your CSU score? You will get extra points for a leadership role, volunteer work, middle school classes that are high school curriculum - like algebra1. That will be a good estimate of getting into the school. Normally, I’d say yes. You’d get in with those grades - at least into any of the colleges on campus (liberal arts, agriculture, Math and science etc) but engineering is a bit tougher. Computer science is THE most competitive degree. My advice, apply for a different major like Software engineering or computer engineering, then switch. When we spoke to the engineering dept, I asked about switching majors. They said that to switch collages (like from a bio major in the college of math and science to say electrical engineering in the engineering college) is very hard. It can take over a year to move, and you have to jump through hoops to get there. However, changing within a college is much easier. So to move from software engineering to computer engineering can take one or two quarters at most. Still have to jump through hoops, but much more doable.
They showed us an engineering spectrum, with electrical on one end and civil on the other - making up the actual majors because I can’t remember the actual ones, and comp sci was in the middle. Moving majors within the spectrum was pretty easy, but jumping from one end to the other was more difficult, and would take more time.
So see which engineering major is least competitive, in regards to your stats, and close enough to computer science, think about applying for that, then move once you are in. There’s nothing you can do for the first quarter, but after that you can start to switch.
I don’t believe cal poly requires sat single subject tests. My son took them because he applied to colleges where they were required.
The application pool is much smaller at ED. If you’re sure it’s where you want to go, then I think you have a better chance/odds of getting in ED than regular. My son applied ED to cal poly and was accepted. I think it would have been much more difficult at RD.
Apply to UC’s too. My son applied and put his major at each school as comp sci or engineering and didn’t get in (waitlisted). Kids with lesser stats got into UC’s by stating an undeclared major. If I had to have him do it again, I’d tell him to apply undecided.
I think being an oos student could help you, as CA is so short money, they are increasing the number of oos students to generate more cash.
Lmk if there’s anything else you want to talk about.