@Disaster: For UCSD, including all the registration costs and everything, for the fall 2012-2013 school year would be about $23k living with parents, $30k living on campus, and $28k living off campus. That's for people living in California. For those who aren't it costs about $52k to live on campus. State's tuition is $3,300 for a semester and since my dad works there I get 6 free units a semester. So then my cost goes down to like $2,500 a semester. I wouldn't have been able to afford it because despite me applying for a bunch of scholarships I didn't get a single one, I'm not planning on taking out student loans if I don't have to, and my parents filed for bankruptcy and it just barely got filed so they'd be unable to help me either. Just barely managed to get a job myself after over a year of applying and looking. T.T