<p>So my younger brother applied to an engineering major to SLO and got accepted but he said his friends with higher stats got rejected. This is weird because my brother's SAT scores weren't that impressive, like 1790 and he hasn't taken that many AP/honors courses. However, he's almost a straight A's student and he has a lot of volunteer hours.</p>
<p>So far he got into Cal State Long Beach for Nursing, UC Riverside for their BS/MS program in electrical engineering, and got a scholarship, UCI for civil engineering, but got REJECTED from UC Davis for some engineering.</p>
<p>Is it possible that SLO rejected people with high stats because it knew that those students would end up turning down SLO anyway? I'm just curious about this.</p>
<p>and Is engineering at SLO better than that of the UC's?
At this point he's still waiting to hear from UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, and UCSC but he said his choice of attending right now is UCI. </p>
<p>I have stats like your brother’s and got into Davis & SLO and my friend who’s gone above and beyond academically did not get into either. I guess the school not only looks at grades and scores, but also weighs on ec’s? My friend had maybe two clubs and I had a lot of ec’s, one related to my major (computer engineering). SLO has a great engineering program. Probably higher ranked than UC Merced/ Riverside/ SC, ect. It’s probably in the Davis and UCSB vicinity in terms of engineering programs? Congrats to your brother for getting accepted.</p>
<p>UC/CSU system seems to regard gpa and class rigor more than test scores. Also, the UCs are holistic so you can’t predict admits based on just one part of the application. All parts are evaluated and considered.</p>