[TRANSFER] Cal Poly's, UC's, maybe USC

Chance Me / Match Me!
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What’s up?

So, it’s my second year taking classes at a local community college (Los Angeles County), and I wanna transfer to a decent 4-year institution. My major is mechanical engineering. 3.48 GPA. No extraordinary EC’s; just some clubs. I work as a tutor, if that counts for anything.

So, I definitely wanna apply to Cal Poly SLO and Cal Poly Pomona. From UC’s, I’d like to apply to SD and SB. I did the TAG thing with UCI, just in case.

Since my family is considered to have low income, I get to apply to 4 UC’s and Cal State’s for free. That leaves me with a free spot in the UC’s and two free spots in the CalState’s apps. I think I might apply to CSULB, because their engineering dep is not bad. Now, I want to apply to places that I have a chance to get into. I am 99.999999999999% sure that UCLA won’t accept me, so I won’t even bother applying there.

What do you, guys, think? Do I have any chances to get into the mentioned colleges? Which other UC’s or Cal State’s should I consider?

EDIT1: Oh, and I don’t know if I should apply to USC… Their average GPA for engineering is pretty high, but every now and then they accept people with just “good” grades, like 3.6, 3.55 etc.

Thank you.

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Cal Poly SLO is brutal with its straight by-the-numbers approach to admissions. From what I remember of the admissions talk in spring of 2013 for new undergrads (not transfer, mind you) your score would have to be much higher to be considered for admission, unless the pool of students seeking admission at the same time were fairly in the same range as yours.

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Your list is fine - SLO and UCSD are really unlikely but, so?

Since you have chits to burn, I’d add UCD, CSULB and maybe SDSU.