My first reaction was that saying anything is sort of picking on the original poster at a tough time. I am sorry to hear of your trouble with college applications.
But it also occurred to me that lessons learned here could be useful when it comes time to transfer from CC to a 4 year university, and could potentially be useful to current high school juniors who will be applying to schools next year.
Two things jump out at me.
One is that you have a very long lists of high reaches for someone with an unweighted GPA of 3.5. There are a lot of high school students applying to top universities with a long list of A’s and not much else. Your grades are very important.
The second thing is that the list of schools that you applied to have a very wide range of types of schools. Other than “all UCs” and “prestigious schools” there is not much more commonality that I can see. For example I think of Bowdoin and UCLA as very different from each other. MIT and Harvard are both very good for math (my major), but have a lot of other differences. I am concerned that you did not think much about what you wanted in a university. Of course the difficulty producing that many essays and thinking carefully about each one might also be an issue.
There is still a decent chance that you might get into UCSC or one of the other schools where you were waitlisted. If not, and if you do start at community college, then I would urge you to (i) Try to pull up your unweighted GPA, do not be happy with half B’s; and (ii) Think hard about what you really want in a university.