UC OR CAL STATE CHANCES?? -- OUT OF STATE

@Gumbymom gave you some good information.

Remember that these schools are public and funded by the State of California. The State is always out of money so funding for its universities and colleges can be very limited. State taxes heavily affect California residents. Since your family hasn’t paid a cent to California in state taxes, you cant expect the state to fund a non-resident.

In addition to that information, affirmative action is not legal in California, so race cannot be used for admission.

The class sizes tend to be a lot larger than what you can imagine, so you need to realize that these schools are public schools and you will be paying a LOT of money. That’s $40K per year or $160K (4 years) minimum for a large public CSU state school. The UC’s will be $60K per year or $240K cash for 4 years.

Not likely if you don’t have the cash.

You may want to rethink your plan to attend school in California unless your have the cash, the grades and the high test scores. It is not what you see on television. It’s not all beaches and scenery.