<p>If you are able to live a middle class life in the SF Bay area then you will not qualify for any financial aid. I also live in the bay area and in order to live here you have to have a pretty high income. The mediam house price is over 700K which will only buy you a small house. Id guess your parents are making somewhere between 100 and 200K, which is paycheck to paycheck here in SF bay. You need an income of over 160K to buy the mediam priced home. Our EFC was 88K! The good news is that californias schools are the best publics in the nation. There is no tuition and fees are approx 6.5K for a UC and 2.5K for a State school - so you are looking at a total cost of 16-20K per year. While we may get ripped off for everything else we get a deal on college.</p>
<p>tc</p>