Sorry to replay the broken record here, but the important peice of advice that you are missing here - GET AN MSAR AND READ IT. Instead of asking total strangers for questionably accurate advice about something this important - do your homework.
Oh - and to answer your original question, CA schools don't even take Californians, they only take a specially bred group of mutants raised on Mars. I am hoping this googly-antenna headband I am wearing will give me a shot.