@CValle is spot on^^^^.
I get that you want “your” experience but your experience will cost money. If your father has been working his tail off, trying to provide a place for you, I would respect that and appreciate his efforts by taking advantage of EVERYTHING he has earned for you.
Now, here’s the issue with wanting to come out to SF: You couldn’t have picked a more expensive state and city to want to go to school in. @twoinanddone is absolutely correct: SF isn’t exactly warm. Take a look at a map. It is in the Bay area of Northern California.
My dd has gotten used to the weather, but it took her a while to realize that weather in the Fall and Spring is chilly requiring jackets, gloves and hats; it’s windy, rainy, foggy. There’s a reason Alcatraz was hard to escape from.
It’s not Southern California, which is where we are from. SF is culturally rich and has good transportation, and it is very expensive; thinking it’s warm, isn’t accurate. Groceries are expensive, as is everything else.
I am paying through the eye-teeth for my dd to reside in SF while she goes through school. Her current rent for a SHARED 1 bedroom is $2500, and that’s considered cheap!!!
How do you think your parents will afford a very expensive cross-country education?
Oh, and as for offering funding, not gonna happen with a 3.4. California is a popular place so the universities get hundreds of thousands of applications up and down the state by kids with perfect GPA’s and test scores. Funding would have to come from the Bank of Mom and Dad.