Chance Me: 3.85UW SAT 1480 Statistics/Anthro (International)

I think you have to shift categories for all of these schools because you don’t know enough about them. This is especially true if you plan to transfer majors. You should seriously consider a school like USC because, as long as you can pay, you should have a seat there.

At a number of your public school selections, the “marketable majors” and STEM majors are impacted, which means that if you didn’t initially get into that department/major with freshman admission, it will be very, very difficult to change majors.

Even the required prerequisite courses won’t be accessible.

Why is that?

That’s because the schools have too many students who want those majors, but don’t have the support staff, buildings, labs, etc. to teach and to grade you.

You’ve targeted a number of public universities who rely on state tax dollars to fund staff and facilities. The legislatures, of those states, have to vote to approve additional funds to maintain decades-old buildings, acquire expensive land to build housing, maintain infrastructure, update computer systems, and pay attractive marketable salary rates. The most expensive of all of their costs is liability insurance. It continues to go up without any decrease.

Those international tuition funds don’t cover yearly budgets. The state schools are reduced in pay for instate residents, so it barely touches operating costs at those strong public universities. Hence the need for the state legislatures to fund each of those universities.

Look at private schools like USC. Consider the SUNY schools in New York State.
Look at the CDS or common data set for each university and see what they look at when evaluating for admission. At some of those schools your grade point average will be an issue especially if the California kids are at 4.0 and they’re used to a quarter system.