<p>Well, you can go to a CC, then transfer to a UC as a junior, perhaps using the savings from going to CC versus UCLA to fund your last two years at a UC. Or do very well at CC and try for a Regents’ Scholarship at the various UCs (they do give those to transfers as well as frosh; it basically replaces the $8,500 student contribution with additional grant / scholarship).</p>
<p>But merit for transfers is generally not as easy to get as merit for frosh.</p>
<p>That or take a gap year and reapply as a frosh to full tuition or full ride scholarship schools (both the automatic and competitive scholarships).</p>