Chance me for MIT, UCSD, UChicago, UIUC [SC resident, 3.81 UW, 34 ACT, math/cs, single parent household, <$30k (35000 SAI)]

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@garfield4life

Looking to stay under $30k a year,

The UCs will cost close to $80,000/year, so these will not work with your budget, unfortunately. The upside is that this will save you the time the UC app would have taken, so you can really work to make your other apps the very best they can be.