<p>Back to the OP…</p>
<p>twilight_girl09, please don’t forget that your room/board will be somewhere between $11,000-$16,000, depending on which UC and what is available (the cheapest housing goes first), your books will be about $1,000, and misc expenses of about $2,000 will indeed bring your total cost to the $24,000/year range.</p>
<p>I think I recall that you also applied to some CSUs. The system-wide fees there (if you haven’t OMG-discovered it yet) are about $4,000/year with the same associated costs, so the total cost of atendance for those is about $18,000-$20,000/year.</p>
<p>If you live near enough to a UC or CSU to commute from your parent’s home, you can significantly lower the cost of attending. Good luck!</p>