About the Financial Packages and Scholarships.

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>I have been accepted but since I'm a OOS I have 25000 somewhat dollars for loan, which is WAY too much. I was hoping that my national merit status would cover me somewhat but UCLA is not associated with National Merit Scholars Program. Can anyone explain to me if being a national merit finalist is any good for paying for college? I can't tell if there is any advantage...</p>

<p>And plus, is it true that you would become a california resident after one year and the tuition will become cheaper? I dont know some people were trying to reassure me but I can't believe that would be true-_-;;
confirm this for me someone >A<</p>

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<p>There's a one year residence requirement, but there are also a bunch of other requirements. You have to be financially independent, for example, if you're moving in from out-of-state, and you must sever your residence ties in the other state. </p>

<p>So it's not as simple as coming to Los Angeles for a year while you go to school.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/faq/residence.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/faq/residence.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>AHHH. dang it. someone want to freely give me 25k? lol. i think all of us OOSers should go buy some lottery tickets together. maybe we'll get lucky.</p>

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<p>It seems a lot of OOS students with EFCs near zero (0) were given loans totalling over $20,000. One thing you could do is attend school for a quarter, take a leave of absence for a year, and work/pay taxes in CA (gain financial independence), and sever ties with your old state of residence like the poster above said.</p>

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<p>lol. thats one idea. what is EFC?</p>

<p>and...my lotteryticketbuyingplan is still an option...any takers? lol.</p>

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<p>Yeah seriously. with some luck...-_- jk..
it really looks like i won't be going to UCLA then.
I emailed the financial aid office and they told me I'd get NADA from UCLA for being a national merit finalist. so much for that...</p>

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<p>When you apply for financial aid/do your application do you have to use the same address that your high school has on file? Like does the address for the tax return have to be the same address that the school has on file?</p>

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<p>Is that really possible? What reason would you give the school for a leave of absence after one quarter? If it were possible, flipping burgers at MickeyD's for a year would be tantamount to a $100K/yr job, because you would be saving about $80K over four years on out-of-state tuition. But frankly I doubt that it possible to get a leave of absence so easily.</p>

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<p>grandpabruin: I don't think it's that easy for OOS to take residency in CA. It's difficult for under 24 (I think is the age) to become independent, so moving to CA and working for a year to establish residency doesn't work. The reasons allowed for becoming independent are very stringent, usually require more than saying "I am no longer a dependent of my parent." Now, if the custodial parent moves with the student to CA, that is enough to establish residency.
If it was as easy as the previous post implied, there would be no OOS'ers.</p>

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<p>Also, since the big loans are offered to the parents, not the students, its almost impossible to demonstrate financial independence, because few student are capable of earning $40K/yr to spend on college.</p>

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<p>socalpatty:</p>

<p>I agree. The first part of my post was a capture of text written by another poster. The second part was my post.</p>

<p>We are OOS for Fall 2006, looking at basically no money offered. a 30K EFC and the remaining 12K a parental loan.</p>

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<p>The 1st tier UC's are still good value and highly respected institutions OOS without the "CA resident discount." If I were out of state, and it were me I would definitely consider UCLA or Cal worthy of $40K a year, still less than anything else in the top 20 nationally, unless of course I got into something else in the top 20 that appealed to me as well.</p>

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<p>We live in the east and UCLA OOS is just as expensive as Harvard, Yale, Duke, and Georgetown, but we never would have been admitted to those schools. UCLA was our "reach" school - we weren't expecting admission so we are happy with it.</p>

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<p>I had a friend who went to Cal (UCB), and after the first semester, took a leave of absence from school, worked at a Sushi restaurant for a year (I think she made around 30-40k that year alone), and somehow got Cal to recognize her as in-state after that. Her parents were living abroad, and it seems like they basically wrote a letter to the school saying they would no longer be supporting their daughter's living expenses. She continued to work part-time after returning to school, so she had to pay some money out of her own pocket, but it was still a bargain.</p>

<p>I'll have to ask her how she did it again. She graduated from Cal last year.</p>