I am currently a 19 year old Latino at a California community college majoring in computer engineering. I will be applying to transfer this fall with roughly a 3.00 GPA in my engineering courses and about a 3.2 transferable GPA. I am following the igetc path and will have over 60 units when I transfer and will most likely not be missing any classes. Based on your experiences or a friends what are my chances of getting into:
A) ucsb
B) ucd
C) cal poly SLO
D) San Jose State
E) San Diego State
For UCs, you can check past transfer admit 25th-75th percentile GPA ranges by major at each campus:
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/transfers-major
UCSB 2015 computer engineering: 3.53-3.91, 12% admit rate
UCD 2015 computer engineering: 3.53-3.83, 12% admit rate
You may want to add UCSC, UCR, and UCM to your UC application.
For SJSU, past transfer admit GPA thresholds are posted:
http://www.sjsu.edu/admissions/impaction/impactionresultstransfer/index.html (2016)
http://info.sjsu.edu/static/admission/impaction.html (2012-2015)
SJSU 2016 computer engineering: 2.70 threshold with four course requirements completed, 3.80 threshold with three course requirements completed
For CPSLO, only information by division is published:
http://admissions.calpoly.edu/prospective/profile.html
CPSLO 2016 engineering overall: 3.56 average
For SDSU, see the following:
http://arweb.sdsu.edu/es/admissions/transfers/gpa.html
SDSU 2016 computer engineering: 2.50 threshold
Of course, thresholds and ranges can change in the future, as popularity of campuses and majors change. You may want to add additional CSUs and UCs to your applications.
I meant to also include UC Irvine on the list
The schools you list are really competitive for transfer applicants. Be sure to use TAG to ensure your spot (GPA threshold varies by major and campus so, do some research about where you’ll be eligible) . I’d add UCR and UCSC to your list.