Jr. w/ A- stats + high rigor seeking non-elite options for growth/challenge

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@AustenNut

California Publics – someone else will need to chance you

• Cal State: Monterey Bay: 6700 undergrads. Not necessarily the warmest year-round, but Monterey is beautiful and this is one of the few Cal States that is classified as being a residential campus
• San Diego State (CA): About 31k undergrads

CSUMB is a non-impacted campus with no impacted majors. It should be a safety for applicants meeting baseline CSU admission standards (2.50 recalculated GPA for California residents, 3.00 recalculated GPA for non-California residents; see Freshman: Admission Requirements | CSU ).

SDSU is impacted with all majors impacted (competitive admission for space available). Unfortunately, it does not give information about historical admission thresholds for prior years like some CSU campuses.

Note that CSUs with impacted majors may have college GPA requirements to change into impacted majors.

@parentkeith

Cal Poly Pomona checks many of the boxes you linked. The school spirit might be a bit harder to find, but it does have many academic areas that punch above it’s weight. It’s also part of the WUE system.

CPP publishes part of its admission index calculation and historical thresholds by major at https://www.cpp.edu/admissions/freshmen/freshman-student-profile.shtml . The main part is the recalculated GPA * 1000 + 450, although various bonus points are not specified.