Which colleges in LA or NY should I apply to?

<p>If cost is an issue you should delete UCLA and Berkeley from your list. Unless you are a recruited athlete, you are not likely to receive enough financial aid as an OOS student.</p>

<p>Some other California private schools you might want to look at are University of San Diego, Chapman University, and Santa Clara University (which is in Northern CA, but since Cal and Stanford are on your list I didn’t think you were looking exclusively at SoCal). If you can get your GPA a bit higher, and if your SAT is as high as your PSAT predicts, you may be able to get some pretty good merit money from them.</p>