-4.6 weighted gpa
-3.92 unweighted gpa
-33 ACT (34 superscore)
-UC GPA: 4.5, 4.3 capped, 3.9 unweighted
-1st decile at my school (top 10%)
EC:
-National Honor Society (50 hours)
-California Scholarship Federation (40 hours)
-Laguna Canyon Foundation (local wildlife preservation volunteering) (60+ hours)
-Mentored kids for basketball (50 hours)
-Student of the year in honors chemistry
-shadowed engineer at work
-part time job
Major:
Civil/ Mechanical/ Aerospace engineering
Location:
California, Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Texas…mostly western US
I live in California and will not seek financial aid
Are you looking for state schools or private schools or no preference?
I prefer public schools but I am open to any suggestions
Colorado at Boulder, ASU, GCU, UC Davis, UCSC, and Wash State are all good safeties. UWash could be a match, as well as UCSD and UCSB.
Sweet, thank you so much. Also, do you have any opinions on Colorado State University, Cal Poly Slo, and Colorado School of mines for me??
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-general/2127392-faq-uc-historical-frosh-admit-rates-by-hs-gpa-2018.html can help you with UCs. However, for engineering majors, you should expect admission to be more difficult than the overall campus admission rates may suggest. So you may want to include UCR and/or UCM in your UC application list for likely schools.
On your CSU application list, include more than CPSLO if you want likely or safety schools.
Arizona State should be a safety for admission and the engineering majors you list:
https://admission.asu.edu/freshman/apply
https://webapp4.asu.edu/programs/t5/majorinfo/ASU00/ESAEROBSE/undergrad/false
https://webapp4.asu.edu/programs/t5/majorinfo/ASU00/ESCEEBSE/undergrad/false
https://webapp4.asu.edu/programs/t5/majorinfo/ASU00/ESMAEMBSE/undergrad/false
University of Arizona is a safety for admission to the school; the engineering division does not publish auto-admit criteria, though:
https://admissions.arizona.edu/how-to-apply/freshman
http://engr.arizona.edu/undergrad-admissions/freshmen
If you’re open to going a little further east, you can check out Missouri S&T as probably a safety.
For CPSLO, go to the forum section for that school and read the sticky thread about how to calculate your MCA.
You may want to ask on the CPSLO forum how competitive that is for your majors. Unfortunately, CPSLO does not publish past year thresholds.