Help! Engineering colleges that accepts 3 years of HS Mathematics

UC/CSU GPA is 3.95 as printed on my school transcript. IM2 (B-, B+ ) & IM3+ STEM (B+, PASS ). We were given PASS/FAIL that semester due to the pandemic.
Thanks

The UCā€™s consider all 3 GPAā€™s: Capped weighted, Unweighted and Fully weighted. The CSUā€™s only use Capped weighted.

Below a 4.0 Capped weighted although close with the 3.95 is tough for Engineering at the UCā€™s so maybe UCR and UCSC could also be options. Just conveying the reality.

Best of luck.

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I agree, with a sub 4 GPA, sheā€™s not going to be competitive at many of the UCs. Iā€™d add several CSUs - CPP, SDDSU, CSULB and Chico all have solid engineering programs and are worth an ap.
Iā€™d also look at the WUE list for affordable programs in other Western states. UNR, Oregon, Boise State and Co State get lots of CA kids in her situation. The OOS schools are a lot more flexible on ā€˜required classesā€™
https://www.wiche.edu/tuition-savings/wue/wue-savings-finder/
Apply broadly and good luck

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While looking into small liberal arts schools on the east coast I came across Elizabethtown College which has an ABET certified engineering program. Itā€™s acceptance rate is pretty high especially with your stats. If a school like that is interesting to you Iā€™m sure thereā€™s more like it in the region. Just make sure youā€™ve had a conversation with your parents about funding college and run some net price calculators with them.

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This is very important and in skimming through responses, I donā€™t see that it was addressed. If you didnā€™t take pre-calc, I would choose a good, but less selective program (Oregon State, Colorado State, Utah, Cal Poly Humbolt, etc.), plan to start in Calc I, repeating AB content, and then do pre-calc on Kahn Academy over the summer before you start. If you do not have the math foundation, youā€™ll struggle. There are two routes into mechatronics/robotics, ME and EE. Both are math intensive. Good luck!

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