<p>So your dad likes the Ivies and the UCs. I like your dad… ;)</p>
<p>The UCs, especially Cal and UCLA, don’t have the financial crunch that the other UCs might have because they both have a lot of non-resident types – Int’ls, especially, as yourself, who pay full tuition, which helps both u’s directly fund undergraduate teaching. </p>
<p>My advice is to visit them if you can. If you didn’t apply to the CA campuses because of an attraction to the CA lifestyle, and are only keeping them on your list because of your dad, then maybe try stealthily to remove them from your list and concentrate on the others.</p>