Congratulations on all your accomplishments and being a competitive applicant. I will only address the UC’s and CSU’s on your list.
First of all, the UC’s and CSU’s are test blind so your SAT score will not be considered during the admission process or for any merit scholarships. GPA is king with the UC’s along with HS course rigor and your personal insight essays.
The UC’s and CSU’s have been extremely competitive especially since going test blind so you need to rethink your categorization.
You need to calculate your UC and CSU GPA’s. CSU’s use only the capped weighted GPA while the UC’s will consider all 3 UC GPA’s from this calculator. You can look up which HS courses will get the extra Honors point bump in the calculator:
https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/
Once you have your GPA calculated you can see how you compare to the overall admit rates for the UC’s in the table below. Competitive majors will have lower admit rates than the overall posted.
2022 Admit rates based on the Capped weighted UC GPA.
| Campus | 4.00+ | 3.70-3.99 | 3.30-3.69 | 3.00-3.29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley | 17% | 3% | 1% | 0% |
| Davis | 58% | 20% | 5% | 2% |
| Irvine | 35% | 10% | 3% | 0% |
| Los Angeles | 13% | 2% | 1% | 0% |
| Merced | 97% | 97% | 95% | 85% |
| Riverside | 95% | 83% | 42% | 17% |
| San Diego | 37% | 8% | 1% | 0% |
| Santa Barbara | 41% | 8% | 3% | 0% |
| Santa Cruz | 69% | 45% | 16% | 4% |
If you are low income, make sure you run the Net Price calculators on all schools of interest. The UC’s and CSU’s can offer good need-based aid, but the do not meet need and will expect a family contribution to fill the gap. CSU’s expect you to commute so many times housing costs are not included in their FA package.
Only 3 UC’s actually have Business schools: UCR, UCI and UCB. The rest of the UC’s have business related majors and none specifically in finance so you need to figure out which majors you plan to apply at the other UC’s. Econ, Business Econ, Managerial Econ, Econ/Accounting etc…
Here is how I would categorize the CSU’s and UC’s:
Safety:
Cal Poly Pomona
ASU (assuming affordable and you have NM status)
Likely:
UC Riverside (Pre-Business Admin admit rate 67%)
Target/Match:
UC Santa Cruz (Business Manage Econ admit rate 39.3%)
San Diego State
High Target/Match due to both being selective majors:
UC Davis (Managerial Econ? Admit rate 39.8% Econ admit rate 37.9%) based on the Colleges overall admit rate
Low Reach:
UC Santa Barbara (College of L&S admit rate of 27%)
UC San Diego
Reach:
UCLA (Business Econ overall College of L&S admit rate 10%)
UC Berkeley (Business Admin admit rate of 9.2%) will be direct admit for Fall 2024.
UC Irvine (Business Admin admit rate 2022 was 8.8%)
You really only need 2 safety schools on your list as long as you are happy to attend and they are affordable.
I would make a point to visit as many schools as possible to help eliminate some of the Reachier schools on the list.
Best of luck and you will succeed where ever you land.