Cal State schools purely numbers driven?

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<p>Have they run the financial aid estimators / net price calculators found on each school’s web site to get financial aid estimates? That may give a better idea than “apply and hope”.</p>

<p>UCLA: [Financial</a> Aid Estimator](<a href=“http://www.fao.ucla.edu/aid_estimator/]Financial”>http://www.fao.ucla.edu/aid_estimator/)
UCD: <a href=“http://financialaid.ucdavis.edu/AidEstimator/Disclaimer.aspx[/url]”>http://financialaid.ucdavis.edu/AidEstimator/Disclaimer.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
UCR: [Index[/url</a>]
CSUs: [url=<a href=“http://www.csumentor.edu/finaid/pais/]CSUMentor”>http://www.csumentor.edu/finaid/pais/]CSUMentor</a> - Financial Aid - PAIS](<a href=“http://vcsaweb.ucr.edu/FinAidManualCalculator/]Index[/url”>http://vcsaweb.ucr.edu/FinAidManualCalculator/)</p>

<p>I did try the UCR one with $100,000 income from two married parents, $12,000 in income tax, and $0 in other categories for a 6 person family with 1 in college, and it came up with $12,568 EFC, $6,090 student loan and work earnings, and $9,525 in financial aid grants (total net price of $18,658 from EFC and student loan and work earnings).</p>