<p>I got an email this morning from the CSAC saying that I received my last payment and will not be qualified for any more due to my academic standing. I spent a semester at a CSU, dropped out during the second semester due to personal circumstances, spend a long time at cc, and transferred to UCD this past fall.</p>
<p>I entered as a senior because of all the units I got from cc. I've never accepted any aid until this past year (not like that matters from what I've read). Now I'm freaking out and trying to figure out how I'm supposed to afford my last year. The school FA office isn't open until Monday so I was wondering if this happened to anyone else and how did it go? Thanks</p>
<p>Be sure to ask for a review because mistakes can be made. However, chances are you are out of Cal
Grqnt monies and will have to swing it on student loans and work. Or part time. Or take a year off to earn money. There is no easy solution once the grant money is gone.</p>
<p>The biggest chunk of my aid award came from Cal Grants so without them any aid I get would be close to nothing. I’m already taking out loans and have been working for several years. I think I make pretty good pay considering I’ve been also going to school full time but without the aid it wouldn’t cover all my bills and I also help with part of my mother’s bills. </p>
<p>I sure hope I won’t have to resort to having to taking a year off, it’s taking me much longer to get a bachelors degree as it already. Some of the earlier pre-req classes I took for pharm school are going to start to expire…</p>
<p>I believe you can only receive Cal Grant for a certain number of terms, but you say you accepted no aid at the CC? Can you verify what Cal Grant shows?</p>
<p>Doesn’t the UC Blue & Gold kick in, if there is no Cal Grant, shouldn’t it still cover tuition?</p>
<p>Cal grant does show information for pretty much every year from my senior year of highschool up until now and I believe most of it was GPA verification that my schools automatically sent, so my yearly GPA is shown for each year. I didn’t even bother to apply for FAFSA during the years I was at CC since CC was so cheap, I figured I’d have to have a very low income in order to qualify for aid. I was mostly going to school part time and working so it wasn’t hard to come up with the money. I do remember filling out FAFSA once during CC in order to take out a low interest student loan but I ended up not qualifying anyway due to my withdrawal to completed courses ratio. </p>
<p>I also applied for aid during my first year at state however, at the time my parents were still married and his income was too high for anything worth accepting. I was never even offered a Cal grant up until this 11-12 academic year.</p>
<p>There are some years where it has my GPA information and this:
Cal Grant A: Not Awarded<br>
Cal Grant B: Not Awarded<br>
Cal Grant C: Not Awarded
and some years where there was no information at all. Just a big red paragraph that says it takes 4 weeks or whatever for applications to process. </p>
<p>For the 11-12 year, the first time I ever got a Cal grant awarded, it said I was awarded Grant B. However, now that I check that year again, it changed to:
Cal Grant A: Not Awarded<br>
Cal Grant B: Not Awarded<br>
Cal Grant C: Not Awarded</p>
<p>I don’t know what happened and I sure hope they don’t expect me to pay the money back!</p>
<p>Cal Grant doesn’t care if you used it or qualified or not. It strictly counts how long you have been in school. If you were in college three years and didn’t collect CG those years (for whatever reasons) you have lost those three years of CG. </p>
<p>CG is a ticking clock once you start taking classes. Once the time is done, that’s it. Doesn’t matter if you used FA or not those years.</p>
<p>I went to the fin aid office today and they said that I’ll get university grants to replace the cal grant. She said that as long as I am within the university max term limit of 18, i’ll get aid and I am within the limit for next year. For anyone curious they take your total units, including transfer units, and divide by 15. 18 minus the number is how many terms you have left. There are forms to petition the max term limit as well and you have to fill out your academic plan, what your intended schedule will be in order to graduate.</p>