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

Thanks for the reply. We toured Oregon and Oregon St. and Oregon St. is WUE. That’s the only WUE option that we really looked into, but we can look a little further into other ones.

We are trying to find the right fit for him, so even if a school doesn’t have a dedicated business school, that’s not a hard no. Looking for the place he is going to be most likely to thrive. Right now San Diego St. and UCSB are his top two CA choices, although we know he may not have the stats for either. Cal State Long Beach grabbed him when we toured it, and we’re going to see Fullerton this weekend. And it definitely seems like San Jose St. has a lot of good things for him, although we haven’t gotten up north to tour any of those schools yet.

It’s just tough with that nebulous nature of will you get in or will you not, and hearing of friends that had no business getting admitted to a real reach school so it makes sense to pay the application fee to roll the dice (for a place like Irvine or Santa Barbara). And then you have the other side where you don’t want to assume that you’ll definitely get into a specific school so you should hedge you bets and apply to a few. All of a sudden you’re pushing 20 applications!

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