USC is not in Northern California… or did you mean SCU (Santa Clara University, formerly University of Santa Clara).
Be sure to get financial aid estimates at each college’s net price calculator on its web site.
Among California public universities:
- Some UCs are test-blind, some want to be test-optional, but that depends on court cases.
- All CSUs are test-blind.
- For UCs and CSUs, recalculate your GPAs here: https://rogerhub.com/gpa-calculator-uc/ . CSUs use weighted-capped, while most UC stats list weighted-capped unless otherwise specified (but all three variants are seen by UC admission readers).
- UCs and CSUs do not consider race/ethnicity or gender in admission.
Regarding specific colleges:
- For UCB, you can apply either to EECS, which is probably the most selective major, but is direct admission. Or you can apply to L&S, which is not as difficult to get admitted to (but still very competitive), but then you need to earn a 3.3 college GPA in CS 61A, 61B, 70 to enter the L&S CS major.
- For SJSU, CS is the most competitive major (far more competitive than most majors there), but if you have a top-end GPA, you have a good chance. The SJSU admission formula is shown here: https://www.sjsu.edu/admissions/impaction/index.php . Note that you get 200 bonus points (equivalent to +0.25 GPA) for being about to graduate high school in Santa Clara County, and 40 bonus points (equivalent to +0.05 GPA) for being first generation to college. Also, another 40 bonus points if you get a fee waiver for CSU application fees.
Are you also interested in other Northern California colleges like UC Davis and Santa Cruz? Or Stanford for another reach? If you want to apply to Stanford, read http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/2200408-former-stanford-admissions-officer-answers-your-hardest-questions-ask-me-anything.html .