<p>It will not hurt you like it would have a couple of years ago but with the huge reduction in state support of public higher education, California public universities see enrolling OOS students, who pay much higher tuition than California residents, as a valuable source of badly needed revenue. However, you have to understand that you will be paying private college level tuition for a public university and you should not expect much, if anything, in the way of financial aid from the universities or the state of California.</p>