<p>Being female may give you an advantage but if you expect an ACT of 25, it will not cut it for the majority of the UC’s or the competitive CSU’s for ME.
For the CSU’s, it is all about the numbers. They use an eligibility index (EI) to rank applicants for each major:
(CSU GPA X 800) + (SAT MATH + SAT CR) or (CSU GPA X 200) + (ACT Composite x10). Here are the cutoffs for each major at SJSU from the in-coming class 2014:
<a href=“http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-10079.11705.html”>http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-10079.11705.html</a>
See how you compare.</p>