<p>If you will have the residency status for moving to CA right now and you really want to come to Berkeley, why not do so? It will save you a lot of money if you want to attend college in the United States. </p>
<p>IB diploma isn’t a big deal for colleges in Taiwan right? Are you confident that you will be able to score really well on the college entrance exam in Taiwan? Or you are talking about getting an IB diploma in Taiwan and apply to US colleges from there? Seriously, the non-resident tuition is a lot of money ($25k/year X 4 = 100k in total) and I don’t think an IB diploma worths that much. I came from an IB school in California too and we had 60 full IB students in my class… everyone kinda regreted to spend the money to do full IB because it really doesn’t count as anything after you go to college.</p>