Regarding the admit rates for various GPAs above, note that those are for the school as a whole. The Engineering school at UCs can have an acceptance rate that is half or less of the overall acceptance rate. For example, you see above that Davis has an admit rate of 91% for a UC GPA of 4.20 or higher. In our experience for Engineering, you can throw that out the window. One of our kids was waitlisted there with a much higher GPA. You might think he must have had a lousy application - not really, because he got a Regents scholarship at a comparable, often higher ranked UC. My point is, Engineering at the UCs requires a reality check and can be very unpredictable.