I'll chime in, too. My daughter attends SJSU, and she chose it because, ironically, the UC's don't have Business Schools (unless it's a graduate program). SJSU is well-known for its Computer Science, Business and Engineering programs -- it is also a prime location, as Caltep said, for internships.
Yes, there are many Asians there. In fact, my daughter is taking her second semester of Mandarin (she is white) and almost all the students in her class are Asian -- apparently, because of the immigrant population, and because the kids know English, they have lost some Chinese -- thus, their parents make them take Chinese in college!
If you can, why not become a naturalized citizen? Would that help with tuition? (I don't know how that works.)
I received my graduate degree from SUNY Buffalo, and I can tell you, if you're in California right now....you would hate New York State! Oh, my gosh -- the winters, the rain, the gloomy skies -- great people, but the weather....did I mention the snow??
SJSU sounds like a good choice. You would get in (my daughter had a 3.8 GPA and chose SJSU, even though we live in Santa Cruz because UCSC is a liberal arts college and my daughter wants a marketable undergraduate degree). By the way, her boyfriend is Chinese and attends UC Santa Cruz, but wanted to go to grad school in Engineering at SJSU and said that it's "too hard" to get into...apparently, their Engineering School is really good. So, because he got his grad degree in Math at UCSC, he's going to attend their new Engineering School (which does not have the history and depth of SJSU).
Look what's in San Jose: Google, Yahoo!, HP, Apple, and the list goes on and on. These are all potential internships.
Good luck to you!
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