Received Regents Scholarship at one UC. Rejected by UCLA and Berkeley.

$10,000 is a large amount of money, and the benefits of the scholarship should be weighed into your decision. If your main focus is prestige, UCSC may not be the way to go, although internships and things you may land there could sway that. It’s all really relative and it should ultimately be up to you to make the decision.

UCSC also has a really beautiful campus, though.