<p>I'm a Filipino high school senior from Nevada and I want to major in Civil Engineering. For Cal State, I've already decided on SDSU, SJSU and CPP but I was wondering which UC campuses I should apply to. Here's my profile:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.52 UW, 4.27 weighted, (UPDATED: 3.85 UC/CSU)
Class Rank: 71/342 (Hanging onto the top 25% as hard as I can!)
SAT: 1180 CR+M or 1800 total (Reading:560 - Math:620 - Writing:620)
Rigor: AP US History, AP Physics B, AP Statistics and the rest Honors; 3 years of Spanish, 2 years of Graphic Design, plus Psychology/Sociology and two years of Marketing
EC's: Not much besides DECA and a hospitality internship I'll be doing next spring</p>
<p>I always thought UC Irvine was where I had the best chance at but UC Davis and UC San Diego are similar. Then there's the top notch UC's like Berkeley and LA and the mid tier UC's like Riverside, SB and SC. Any input will help! Thanks!</p>
<p>The UC’s have become very competitive. Your GPA is great, but your test scores are low for many. I think UCSD and UCD are a reach for you with your current scores. UCSB and UCI are not guaranteed, but you have a shot. UCSC, UCR, and UCM are probably your best bets. FWIW, I think SDSU and CPP are going to be long shots also. Good luck!</p>
<p>Your test scores and UC GPA (3.85) are low for Davis and UCSD and even for UCSB. Santa Cruz does not have a civil engineering major, though you could get admitted under a different major.</p>
<p>I agree with takeitallin that your best bets are UCR and UCM. (Eliminating UCSC because of the major). Check to make sure that these two schools offer civil engineering.</p>
<p>I think the best CA state school for you, if you can get in, is CPP.</p>
<p>The bigger problem may be the cost as a non-resident. Check the net price calculators.</p>
<p>Of the UCs, only Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and Los Angeles have civil engineering.</p>
<p>But civil engineering is pretty common at CSUs: San Luis Obispo, Pomona, Chico, Fresno, Fullerton, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose.</p>
<p>I have seen the costs UC Balumnus, CSU is much cheaper but UC’s are more prestigious but in the end, I’m just trying to find the right fit. It’s agreeable that SDSU (behind Cal Poly SLO) is the best CSU in terms of average test scores and GPA’s right?</p>
<p>I know that CPP has the largest engineering school in the country and I just realized I don’t know much about SDSU’s engineering program but I do know that SDSU as a whole is pretty good…</p>
<p>SDSU is a good school, true. You would get a fine education there. But it gets part of its good reputation from its geography. Pomona is much less attractive. </p>
<p>SDSU also has a rep as a party school. There are certainly students there who do not party. I don’t know anything about their civil engineering.</p>
<p>I do think you should be asking yourself why you are holding SDSU up on such a pedestal.</p>
<p>I’m not holding SDSU on a pedestal, I’m just acknowledging that out of the more than 20 CSU’s, it has the second highest averages in SAT scores and GPA’s behind Cal Poly. I don’t think my regard for the school is in anyway extreme or unsolicitied…</p>
<p>Depends on your definition of big school. By size it is very huge (mostly cuz of the surrounding farmland,etc. They make us run around the whole campus for jogging and it’s much bigger than I thought it was my first year).</p>