As for the UC’s, you will be paying $65K+, per year, as a nonresident for a public university.
If you really want to get into UC’s, then you need to have met requirement F, which a lot of out-of-state students forget about, or aren’t aware of, because they don’t read the UC websites.
Visual and Performing Arts-Requirement:
“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.” This course needs to result in a grade on your transcript.