Hi I’m an upcoming senior and I want to be realistic when it comes to applying to colleges this fall. I’m want to get into SDSU or Cal Poly SLO for aerospace engineering or UCSD for pharmacy.
CSU/UC GPA: 3.43 (Took alot of AP/Honors classes, but didn’t do hw due to laziness)
Classes Taken: AP Art History, AP Euro, APUSH, AP Calc AB, AP ComSci, Honors Precal, AP Bio, APLang, Honors Chem
Senior Year classes: AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Physics, AP Psych, AP Econ
Superscored SAT: 650 - CR, 640 - M, 620 - W | 1290 (CR + M for CSUs)
For Cal Poly SLO: If 4500+ (out of 5000), low reach. Anything under would probably be a reach for an engineering major. Also note that Cal Poly SLO incorporates freshman year into their GPA and the the average stats for last years engineering majors were 4.13 GPA, 32 ACT/1419 SAT1.
SDSU: High Match (4100 EI is the magic number for Engineering)
SLO: Reach
UCSD: Reach
Your test scores and GPA are too low to be competitive for SLO and UCSD. Make sure you have some solid matches and safeties on your list. Consider Cal Poly Pomona, SJSU and CSULB. Good Luck.
@Gumbymom@humanacidtrip Thank you for helping me! I will look into the school that you have mentioned. Are there any other schools in California that you recommend?
There are no other schools other than the schools mentioned above on post #2 for Aerospace Engineering in California. For pharmacy, are you looking for Pharmaceutical Sciences or a major like Biochem?
UCR/UCSC would be possible. Also any of the other Cal states such as SFSU/Sac State/Chico State/Sonoma but if you want both options of Aerospace and Pharmacy, then Cal Poly Pomona, San Jose State and Cal State Long Beach would be the best choices for either major.