Entering UG Scholarship VS. CA Grant A

Paying for College
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<p>I thought I read the UC Davis financial aid page back to front.
Types</a> of Financial Aid Available </p>

<p>I'm a transfer student and for my first year I received two awards.<br>
1. Entering UG Scholarship for 14,234.00 which leaves 332.82 for tuition. </p>

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<li>I also received the Grant A award for $12,192. I talked to fasfa people and they told me that the Grant A money should be processed through Davis and I would get a visa with the left over funds. I banked on that money for my rent, food, car insurance, bills, ect.<br></li>
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<p>Well, I called the UC Davis financial aid department today and they informed me that I can only receive one of the two awards. Where can I find this information in print? I feel blindsided. No where on the UC Davis webpage or the <a href="https://mygrantinfo.csac.ca.gov%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://mygrantinfo.csac.ca.gov&lt;/a> page does it say that. Now tuition is due in a few days and I have nothing to my name.</p>

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<p>What is your EFC, and were you offered any other financial aid?</p>

<p>What exactly did the financial aid department say?</p>

<p>e: Which “FAFSA people” did you talk to about your Cal Grant?</p>

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<p>Your EFC doesn’t matter at this point. What’s significant are the limitations on the grants you received.</p>

<p>You need to look at your award letter. Do you have it?</p>

<p>If you were planning to get by on grants alone, and have not yet taken out any federal loans, you should still be able to get student loans to cover some of the shortfall.</p>

<p>But let’s start with that award letter. What does it say?</p>

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<p>Blue and Gold promises that your UC fees are covered. That can be done with Cal Grants or a mix of UC grants, Pell, etc. </p>

<p>You should be given loans to help cover the rest of your need.</p>

<p>What was your EFC?</p>

<p>UCs often award a UC grant, UNTIL the Cal Grant gets awarded, and then the UC grant is taken away or reduced.</p>

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<p>You won’t get both–it is a confusing shuffle while the FA package settles and is finalized and there is no place that CLEARLY explains how all of this works. Most students with need will get enough grants to cover the UC tuition…the rest (food, rent, books) is generally expected to be covered by student loans and student summer earnings and a little bit of parental help. </p>

<p>(My son goes to UC Berkeley and it was the same confusing shuffle with FA awards being “awarded” and then withdrawn and “replaced” with other funds up to almost the first day of classes…drove us crazy, but we learned back then as well that one can not get both awards and the college was generally trying to cover the base tuition costs and anything adding up to more than that would be stripped away/adjusted.)</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’m not gonna pretend it isn’t confusing. California has a lot of programs which will only cover tuition.</p>