What public colleges in CA or private ones anywhere should I consider applying to as my safety schools?
well, it seems like you can consider the majority of UC schools as your safety. Although UCs has been getting a lot more competitive in the past few years so even with UCSD, you never know if you’d get in with such good grades and scores etc. But, for the UCs especially, they don’t really care much about weighted GPA and for private schools, they care more about ranking. Depending on your unweighted GPA, you can probably apply to UC Irvine and UC Davis as safe schools. Any of the state universities are definitely going to be safety schools. If you have a good essay, private schools like USD and USC are well within your range but I wouldn’t consider them safe schools. For outside of CA, NYU is in the safe school range and it has an excellent business program. If you have a high unweighted GPA (above 3.5) you’ll most likely get into UC Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD too. EDIT: oh, just some advice, don’t write about your immigration experience unless you have a really unique one. (ex. you are a
