<p>OP, unfortunately, you need to cross Berkeley off your list. You will get no financial aid, and Cost of Attendance for non-residents was $55K last year. You can go to almost any private school in the country for that amount of money, and you won’t run into the problems that UC students have – overcrowded classes, long wait lists, program cutbacks, double-digit tuition hikes, etc. Higher education in California isn’t a pretty picture these days.</p>