Looking to apply AE and need advice!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m currently a male junior attending a very academically competitive high school ranked top 10 in California. I’m planning on applying as aerospace engineering major. I’m enrolled in my school’s STEM program, which has me take a few classes a year focused on different fields of engineering.
I’ve taken the following classes so far:

Freshman:
Geometry-A/A
Physics-B/B
Introduction to Engineering(learning 3D modeling)-A/A
Biology Honors-B/A
Scientific Research 1 A/A

Sophomore:
Algebra 2 H B/C
Chemistry H B/C
Digital Electronics A/A
Scientific Research 2A/A

Junior:(First Semester)
AP Chem- B
Ap Comp Sci- B
Pre Calc Honors- B
Aerospace Engineering- A
Scientific Research 3- A

Planning on taking next year:
AP Physics C
AP Calc BC
Digital Animation
Engineering Design and Development
Scientific Research 4

Weighted GPA: 4.0; Unweighted 3.5
My SAT is 1900 right now but I’m taking it again.
Taking SAT Chem & Math II in June.
Ethnicity: Hispanic
I’ve also applied to an summer internship at Boeing that my school offers.

Obviously my biggest concern is my two C’s my sophomore year and also a C in honors english my first semester of junior year.

I’m really worried about not being accepted into a good school that offers aerospace engineering when I apply to college next year. I was thinking about applying to the following:

UC Davis
UCSD
UCLA
Cal Poly SLO
U of Michigan
CU Boulder
Texas A&M
USC
Purdue

If someone could chance me on theses schools, that’d be amazing. And any advice or feedback on a school that might better fit me, please let me know.

Thank you very much.

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What about money? Are you full pay anywhere or are you needing scholarships/financial aid?

I am a senior going into AE at Wichita State University in Kansas. It is not a top ranked university overall, but their AE program is particularly strong. They really push internships and co-ops and Wichita is filled with aerospace companies. It is really easy to get into, rolling admissions with an acceptance rate of 96%. It would be a good safety if you could pay for it. Their best scholarships are for NMF (full ride) but there’s also some other significant scholarships that are more competitive. I just visited there last week, and I REALLY liked it.

As for chances for those schools - no idea. They are almost all reaches, I think, (except maybe for Purdue), but you can certainly apply there. But definitely get some safeties in there just in case.

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I’m not in need for financial aid. And thank you, I’ll check out Wichita! I really need to find good safety schools. Thanks