Hi, someone recommended that I should post my question here on the Engineering forum so here I am.
I’m looking to major in Electrical Engineering for my bachelor’s degree. Does anyone know and good engineering schools that offers good financial aid? Preferably under $10k as the total cost of living attendance (I plan to live on campus). I live in California and like pretty much everyone here, I want to attend a UC school. Preferably UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, or UCI. So there’s some sort of reference to where I want to apply. I have a 3.4 unweighted GPA and a 3.86 weighted GPA. My UC GPA is 3.76. My SAT scores is (sadly) 1260 and I don’t plan to retake it. My parents’ combined income is less than $30k. So yeah, what are some good engineering schools with some good financial aid?
INFORMATION ALREADY GIVEN FROM PREVIOUS POST:
-Bro all of those are reaches, go for UCR, Merced, and Santa Cruz instead. Throw in some CSUs and CCs too.
From the information given from the previous posts, I plan to apply to UCR, San Diego State, and CSU LB for Engineering. I also seem to be eligible for EOP, just need to get accepted into the program. Someone suggested that I should have a backup so my backup major will be Economics.
Is there anything else I should know? Any additional colleges that I should try to apply to?
As long as the program you choose is ABET accredited, you will be able to get a solid engineering education. The real question is what is your SAT Math score. That looks like potentially the biggest impediment for you getting into an engineering program. The advice of starting with a CC is a good backup plan. This way you can take all the prerequisite courses for engineering and show that you can do the work. By the time you finish 2 years, your SAT scores won’t matter and you only have to finance ~2 years.
Apply to the schools you would really like to attend and keep the CC as a plan B in case you are not admitted or you cannot manage the finances.
If Mount San Antonio College is your local community college, then Cal Poly Pomona may be your local CSU. This may give you some admission preference there, and be close enough to commute to if you need to do so to save money.