I was wondering since my family can’t afford it if Berkeley has any scholarships or good financial aid?
Thanks
If you are OOS, you are full pay.
UC Berkeley is a public university funded by the state of California and its taxpayers.
As such, it is primarily funded for its residents. Everyone else pays full fees.
California residents are eligible for California grants and scholarships.
Berkeley has a few grants, but typically these are for elite students with perfect scores and GPA’s but they may not cover full fees and are VERY limited.
If you are not a resident, you pay $60K per year.
Yes, but not very many, and anything big should be considered a high reach.
Look at your in state flagship.
What is your home state?
In other threads, you’ve mentioned that your family can’t pay much. UCB gives FEW merit awards. If you’re OOS, the merit is even more rare, and still leaves a LARGE amount for the family to pay…and they won’t give aid to cover that.
They meet full need for in-state Regents scholars (of course that will include the max direct loans to the student, i.e. $5500 freshman year).
If he’s instate^.
@“aunt bea” A limited number of OOS students can also receive Regents/Chancellor scholarships. Most of the 200 or so they select each year are in-state.
@Undercrackers; But as an OOS regents scholar, does UCB meet financial need? I know that at UCLA, OOS regent scholars will not receive aid towards the OOS supplemental tuition ($28K+) so I was wondering if UCB does the same? I could not find this information on the UCB website.
http://financialaid.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/docs/forms/RC_Tenure_Contract_2016-17.pdf
http://financialaid.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/docs/forms/RC_Tenure_Contract_OOS_2016-17.pdf
UCB Regents’ scholarship in-state is $2,500 or need-based award based on FAFSA need.
UCB Regents’ scholarship out-of-state is $25,000 or need-based award based on FAFSA need.
It looks like the intent is to cover out-of-state additional tuition when meeting FAFSA need, or bring the price down to close to in-state levels for out-of-state students without FAFSA need, although the wording suggests that the scholarship may be less if there are budget issues. For in-state students with financial need, the likely effect is to replace the usual ~$8,000 of student loan and work expectation with scholarship money.
Earning a Regents’ scholarship at UCB should be seen as a high reach.
@ucbalumnus, thanks for the information.
For our in-state regent, they did not replace the student loan. So for freshman year her package was $2500 regents, 5500 DL and the remaining COA minus our EFC was a middle class scholarship.
For sophomore year they did away with the regent scholarship designation and just issued it all as Berkeley scholarship = to COA-EFC-6500 DL
@ucbalumnus Definitely high reach. Around 2,000 are finalists, narrowed down to 200ish. And it’s not always the people with the best raw stats - there’s a bunch of stuff that goes into how they are awarded (totality of the application, an interview, etc.).
OP needs to apply to a range of schools, especially those that are generous with financial aid to OOS/international. State schools (specifically CA) cannot be counted on to offer that.
Thanks for the reply, I am out of state. It seems like it is high reach to get scholarship
Seems like it now just effectively replaces the student work earnings expectation, rather than the student work + student loan amount.
With COA around 60+K, expect to pay a large chunk yourself as an OOS. There is a known grade deflation at UCB. Not good for any pre-med students. Medical school admission is very much dependent on GPA ( usually GPA > 3.7 is needed).