Why is your GPA a 2.7? That is not meant to be unkind, but it is useful to understand what your strengths and weaknesses are, and to look at colleges that are likely to suit you.
I would NOT recommend UDC to anybody not from DC who had any possible other choice. It is an under resourced commuter college going through serious restructuring to try and make it less awful academically and to increase the percentage of students who actually graduate (ever). Housing/living costs are wildly expensive.
As others have pointed out, the first thing is to check affordability with the online NPC.
Next, you can get some idea as to how realistic any college is by looking at collegedata ([url=<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=115%5Dhere%5B/url”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=115]here[/url] is the page for Quinnipiac); you can put any college into the search box and see admissions and financial aid info. From this you can see that about 20% of admitted students had a GPA in your range; 77% had higher GPAs- and that the school ranks GPA as “very important” but SATs as “important” factors. If your school has Naviance you can see how other students from your school have done. Of course, grades and SATs are just one variable, but it will help you to group colleges by their *relative likelihood.