The F requirement often trips up OOS non-residents for California schools. You mentioned Choir in your vitae, but I don’t see a course listed for it. You would need a yearlong graded course in choir. Subject Area F: Visual & Performing Arts
You seem to be really focused on the competitive and expensive California publics. From their website:
Visual and performing arts
UC-approved high school courses
One yearlong course of visual and performing arts chosen from the following disciplines: dance, music, theater, visual arts or interdisciplinary arts — or two one-semester courses from the same discipline is also acceptable.
Exams & coursework that satisfy “F”
(Subject requirement (A-G) | UC Admissions)
AP or IB Examination
Score of 3, 4 or 5 on the AP History of Art, Studio Art or Music Theory Exam;
score of 5, 6 or 7 on any one IB HL exam in Dance, Film, Music, Theatre Arts or Visual Arts
College courses
Grade of C or better in any transferable course of 3 semester (4 quarter) units that clearly falls within one of four visual/performing arts disciplines: dance, drama/theater, music or visual art
Both the CSU’s and the UC’s hold firm on this requirement such that if it is missing, it is an automatic rejection.
If your heart is set on California only, then you need to do research on the private colleges.
Presuming that the limited scholarships at the publics, will help defray the costs, is not going to help you. The UCs/CSU’s are funded by the State of California.
- The State doesn’t have a lot of spare money to fund non-residents.
- Taxpayer dollars partially fund those schools.
- Scholarships to these public universities average about $2K.
- You need $42K -$65K per year.
- Working in California wont give you that kind of money.
- Living in California, while attending school, wont gain you instate resident tuition during those 4 years.
Also, California is very expensive. People tend to forget that it is a VERY large state and that public transportation is deemed poor with the exception of some Bay Area public works. Many students have cars to get around. Driving in Southern California is almost a given.
Many of the private schools, that may provide funding, may also have religious affiliations or requirements, so you need to gauge what is required and how that will affect and impact your needs.
Some of the privates:
Stanford (Santa Clara County-HUGE REACH)
Santa Clara University (Santa Clara County)
University of San Francisco (SF)
University of Southern California (LA County)
Loyola Marymount (LA County)
Chapman University (Orange County)
University of San Diego (SD County)
Pt. Loma Nazarene (SD County)
Scripps and Pitzer Colleges (wider LA county)
St. Marys (Contra Costa County)
Azusa Pacific (LA county)
University of the Pacific (nowhere near the ocean, but near lots of farms in Stockton, CA)
California Lutheran (Ventura County)
Mt. St. Mary’s (LA county)
ETA: Gas, and maintenance, for driving around California is expensive, but what will really affect and impact your dollars will be both the health insurance costs as well as your car insurance.