Is there any reason your parents are opposed to east coast schools? If they are firm on that, there is no sense in looking at any Ivy (all east coast) or any other target east coast schools (UMD, UMass etc). You already have some good suggestions for schools that are located in the west (or middle of the country). For the UCs your gpa may be a challenge for getting into CS (and they don’t look at test scores), unless your lower grades came Freshman year (which they don’t count). You may want to calculate your UC capped/weighted gpa to see what it looks like - there is a lot of info out there on admission rate by UC gpa (i.e. 10% admitted with gpa of 4-4.4) including acceptance rates by school and major.
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