UCSD can compete?

Applying to College
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<p>Hi guys,
College admissions getting closer and closer for UC and I am leaving towards majoring in Aerospace engineering. I have about a weighted GPA 4.45, a 2080 SAT score, and a SAT 2 Math 2 770. I am also lead alto sax player of the high school jazz band and a member of the golf team.
Anyways, I understand Cal Berkeley has an extremely competitive engineering program and I think it would be wise of me to not shoot for engineering at this school.
Do you think this is also the case at UCLA?
Am I right about Berkeley being extremely extremely competitive in engineering?
And finally, is getting into the UCSD engineering school just as hard as UCLA and Berkeley? These are my dream schools and aerospace is what my mind is set on at the moment, however I do value going to these schools over going elsewhere for engineering.
Should I re evaluate my major choice if I do really want to get into at least one of these school?</p>

<p>-Thank You</p>

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<p>apply to all three and see what happens – it’s the same app, but just costs 3x as much.</p>

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<p>Berkeley does not have aerospace engineering, though it does have mechanical engineering. There is also a competitive full ride scholarship for mechanical engineering majors (Drake, with separate application).</p>

<p>Berkeley admission competitiveness in engineering does depend on major. While the College of Engineering is more competitive on average than the College of Letters and Science, the less popular College of Engineering majors may be less competitive than the College of Letters and Science (at the time of the [Hout</a> report](<a href=“http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/committees/aepe/hout_report_0.pdf]Hout”>http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/committees/aepe/hout_report_0.pdf), nuclear, mechanical, and civil were less competitive than the College of Letters and Science, but things may have changed since then).</p>

<p>Changing into the College of Engineering if you are in a different division like the College of Letters and Science is difficult.</p>