Cal Grants

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<p>Okay so every year I have been denied a Cal Grant because my GPA is too low, and my CCC always submits my CC GPA not my UC-GPA.</p>

<p>My CCC GPA is 3.13
There are 3 classes included in this that are not in my UC GPA (Elementary Algebra C, Student Success A, and Work Experience C)</p>

<p>My UC GPA is 3.25 which is enough along with my circumstance to make up enough points to get a Cal grant, but my CCC GPA might not hit that cutoff is there anyway to get my UC GPA submitted or is the CSAC only gunna see my CCC GPA?</p>

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<p>Hmm, I think the CC only submits the CC GPA, sorry. I looked in to that somewhat recently myself and the cal grant website said nothing about CCs being able or willing to submit just the UC-transferable GPA.</p>

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<p>That sucks then :/</p>

<p>If you don’t qualify for a Cal-Grant and your family income is less than 80k will you automatically get the Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan if you meet the requirements? </p>

<p>There’s not a lot of info on it so that’s why I ask</p>

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<p>@Matt4200</p>

<p>I hope so…but it doesn’t look like you’d qualify if you can’t submit the cal-grant application form.</p>

<p>You should really talk to a UC rep about this or maybe your school’s financial aid office and see if there’s any way to get around this.</p>

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<p>My CCC automatically sends the Cal grant GPA verification form to the CSAC sometime in January according to the Registration office at my CCC.</p>

<p>All that you need to apply for a cal grant is the GPA form and filing a FAFSA.</p>

<p>My school’s financial aid office is a joke and they send you to a counselor who sends you somewhere else who tells you to go back to square one. But that’s CCC’s for you.</p>

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<p>Dang, that sucks.:(</p>

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<p>Is it not that way at your CCC?</p>

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<p>Oh, it is. GPAs are definitely submitted online.</p>

<p>I just thought that your situation was unsolvable lol. Is there any way you can think of to still submit a cal grant form or have your school submit it for you, thus qualifying you for the B & G plan?</p>

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<p>You can manually fill out your own GPA verification form <a href=“http://www.csac.ca.gov/pubs/forms/grnt_frm/gpaform.pdf[/url]”>http://www.csac.ca.gov/pubs/forms/grnt_frm/gpaform.pdf&lt;/a&gt; have the office fill it out. Remember that non-transferable courses (to neither UC or CSU) are not counted towards GPA. Also there are different GPA cutoffs (2.0 and 3.0). </p>

<p>If you have a 3.25 UC GPA how can you have a GPA lower than 2.0??</p>

<p>Hope it helps…</p>

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<p>Not to hijack your thread or anything, but how would the GPA verification process work if you have attended two CC’s? </p>

<p>I had a terrible gpa at my last cc over 2 years ago, but have a near 4.0 at my current one with most of my credits being taken here? Would both send a gpa verification?</p>

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<p>@Dagoberto - Wouldn’t my CCC have to follow those guidelines not to include those courses? Or…</p>

<p>It’s not that I had below a 2.0 or that I wasn’t considered for a grant because of low GPA it’s that they only had so many grants and because I had a lower GPA they didn’t have any left for me.</p>

<p>@Cayton - The Cal Grant form will be applied for but idk if I will get it</p>

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<p>What’s required for the Cal Grant? (curious about the GPA requirement mainly)</p>

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<p>What’s required is a 2.0 or 3.0 GPA depending on which CG.</p>

<p>But just because you meet the minimum requirements doesn’t mean you’ll get a CG because there are so many applicants and only so much $$$.</p>

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<p>@TheUnderdog1 - The honest thing that you are supposed to do is bring in your transcripts to your CCC from your old CC and they will average them with your current ones and submit it electronically.</p>

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<p>@matt4200</p>

<p>If you apply by the march 2nd deadline you are eligible for grants. If for some reason you are denied cal grants (despite being accepted to a UC) you will qualify for university grants. These grants are supplementary funds each UC has to use whenever low income students don’t qualify for grants.</p>

<p>The UC’s would ideally prefer to use cal grants instead of dipping into their own funds… so I think that the UC would be fighting on your behalf to make sure you get the grants. Either way you get your money.</p>