well, since you seem to want to be open to medicine and your parents won’t pay their EFC, what is your plan to pay for college??? You can only borrow $5500 for frosh year.
If you decide on the premed route, you won’t want debt for undergrad.
The UCs will cost over $30k.
Look over the list of schools that will give you ASSURED large merit for stats.
http://automaticfulltuition.yolasite.com
Alabama would give you free tuition for your stats…remaining costs would be $15k per year. Alabama has Econ in both A&S and in the B-school. Although if you wanted to keep premed options open, I would suggest doing the A&S route. Gorgeous school, strong academics, over 1000 Calif kids there, very good premed advising…and the school DOES write Committee Letters (which the UCs do NOT do). You’d have to apply before Dec 15th to get this assured award for your stats.
The school app is easy…only takes 5 minutes…no essays, no LORs… just send scores and transcript and you’d have admission and full tuition award in a couple of weeks. Safety in the bag.