<p>Your best chance of a safety is UC Merced. Right now they have more spots than acceptances on a regular basis (this will change eventually, but right now nobody wants to go to a UC in the central valley–kind of middle of nowhere relative to the “in” spots of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Santa Barbara). </p>
<p>Also, transferring from UC Merced to UCLA would be much easier than from OOS–priorities go first to the community colleges, then to students at other UCs.</p>
<p>Lastly, I have to mention that naderman’s comment about you having no problem getting into UCI must have been a sarcastic shot at UCI–because the fact is that you have absolutely no chance of getting in there this coming year (sorry).</p>
<p>If you really want to go to UCLA consider going to a California community college and then transferring–but realize that the average GPA needed to transfer has been historically around a 3.6 or so. (However, it would be much cheaper than going to UC Merced as an international student, though) Also, these are essentially “safeties” since you can go to one as long as you graduated from high school.</p>
<p>There are lots of other schools in the US that have easier standards for admittance. Only about the top 150-200 colleges are real tough–and the US has over 1400 colleges. Just pick up a copy of the US News and World Report College edition that is currently out and look through the average admission statistics of some of the schools. Realize, though, that transferring to UCLA from most of those schools is next to impossible–regardless of GPA–unlike the California community colleges or UC Merced–from which you would get preference.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>