Do I have a chance?

I am going to be applying for graduate school (M.S.) for Fall 2016 in Computer Science this year. So I want to see if anyone has any insights or comments or advise for my profile since it's not the best...

I started college at school A and went there for 2 years before transferring out to school B. School A is a medium sized not so famous urban university (something like SFSU) and school B is a huge flagship state school (something like ASU). I performed very poorly at school A due to several reasons which I plan to explain in my SOP and ended up with a ~2.6 GPA. However, >80% of the courses at school A were general ed. liberal art courses. I will be graduating from school B with about a ~3.2 GPA.

Now since most competitive graduate schools set minimum (sometimes recommended) requirements at 3.0. Do I have a chance? If both my GPA's are averaged, they would average to about ~2.9.

Some pluses in my profile (I think): 2 student assistant positions of technical nature (technical assistant & Enterprise Infrastructure assistant) 1 summer internship in software engineering at JP Morgan.

Also, in regards to the GRE, I'm taking it in the summer this year so I still have a fairly good amount of time to get better. My mocks right now are giving me 310-315. By the summer I'm confident of a score between 315-325.

Some things I have heard from people: 1. People have gotten in with GPA's < 3.0, either because of work experience or their Technical GPA was high. 2. Grad admissions mostly care about your grades in major related courses... 3. You can ace the GRE, write a strong SOP and get good LOR's and it just might work..

BTW, the schools I plan on applying to are: UC - Davis UC - Santa Barbara UC - Santa Cruz Virginia Tech UC - San Diego Ohio State University at Buffalo SUNY

What do you guys think? anyone in or was in a similar situation? any comments, insights,.. anything will be appreciated!