Thanks for your comment. We do live in CA and do plan to apply to UC schools. My daughter is currently enrolled at a community college and hopes to transfer to a UC in the next year or two (she had high scores as well, but her GPA was not as high).
Regarding selling our house and moving to a lower cost area- never going to happen. My husband is a doctor and cannot really move his practice. We are stuck here, for a while anyway.