Chance my son at the UCs and Cal States [CA resident, 3.53 UW, 3.63 UC capped, business or data analytics]

I am just going to list some UC/CSU admit rate data and UC/CSU GPA data for Business majors/college or general campus information to help in making your list.

Campus Business admin or Business Ads. major CSU Capped weighted GPA
Cal Poly SLO Projected 22% 4.04-4.25 SLO GPA
San Jose State Various Business majors and concentrations Depending upon concentration a CSU GPA of 2.5-3.5 would meet Impaction Thresholds
San Diego State Depending upon concentration 31-35% Average Campus CSU GPA overall 4.06
Cal Poly Pomona Various Majors Minimum 2.5 GPA needed to meet major threshold except for Accounting which needs around a 3.3 GPA
Cal State Long Beach 31% Average CSU GPA 3.98
CSU Fullerton 86.8% for the College of Business and Economics Average Campus CSU GPA 3.68
CSU Northridge 92% overall campus admit rate Average Campus CSU GPA 3.43
CSU Fresno 94% overall campus admit rate Average Campus CSU GPA 3.70

CSU Dominguez Hills offers a Data Analytics Minor and Sacramento State offers a Business Administration major with a Business Analytics concentration worth looking into.

Campus Business admin or Business Ads. major
UC Berkeley 4% Business Admin HAAS// Unweighted 3.86-4.00 Capped weighted 4.20-4.30 Weighted uncapped campus 4.31-4.65
UC Davis Admission by College: 39.8% Managerial Econ. (New Business major Fall 2025 21% admit rate/ / Unweighted 3.80-4.00 Capped weighted 4.00-4.27
UC Irvine 11.2% Business Admin/22.9% Business Econ// Unweighted 3.83-4.00 Capped weighted 4.11-4.28
UCLA Admission by College: Business Economics 9%/ Unweighted 3.95-4.00 Capped weighted 4.20-4.31 Weighted uncapped 4.38-4.73
UC Merced Business Econ/Management 84% Fall 2026 New Business Administration Major// UC Capped weighted 3.41-4.00
UC Riverside Pre Business Admin 76%// UC Capped weighted 3.68-4.13
UC San Diego Estimated 13% Business Econ // Unweighted 3.84-4.00 Capped weighted 4.04-4.28
UC Santa Barbara Admission by College: 29% Economics/Accounting // Unweighted campus avg 3.91. Capped weighted 4.11-4.28
UC Santa Cruz 60% for Business Managment // Capped weighted 3.82-4.18

Only UCR, UCI and UCB have Undergraduate Business schools and the rest of the UC’s have Business adjacent majors such as Business Economics or Economics with exception of UCD and UCM. UCD’s Business major still has a heavy Economics emphasis and UCM has a New Business Administration major for Fall 2026.

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