<p>hi guys, is blue and gold for CC students? or transfer students?</p>
<p>for all UC students</p>
<p>Correction, Blue and Gold is for:
-UC students who are California residents
-have submitted FAFSA by the March 2 deadline and applied for Cal Grant*
-are in their first four years as a UC undergraduate (first two years for transfers)
-demonstrate need (below $70,000 household income for 2010-2011, raised from $60,000)
-meet basic qualifications for UC grants (no defaulted loans, enrolled at least part time, satisfactory academic progress, etc)</p>
<p>*Although it does not specify this with Blue and Gold that I can find, Cal Grant specifically states you must have been a California resident when you graduated from high school. So unless someone has experienced otherwise, it would be logical to assume that one must have been a California resident at the time of graduating high school for Blue and Gold as well.</p>
<p>Sources:
[UC</a> Blue and Gold Opportunity - Am I Eligible?](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/blueandgold/eligible.html]UC”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/blueandgold/eligible.html)
[Grants</a> for School, College Grant, School Grants](<a href=“http://www.calgrants.org/index.cfm?navId=12]Grants”>http://www.calgrants.org/index.cfm?navId=12)</p>
<p>blue and gold plan considers your HOUSEHOLD income not just your parent’s income. so if you and/or any of the other dependents that your parents can claim worked last year, all of that must be less than $70k.</p>
<p>and don’t think this grant is IN ADDITION to what the pell grant, call grant, and other UC scholarships give you. so if u get like $5k pell, $6k cal grant, and like $2k in uc scholarships, you subtract that from the tuition costs and then the blue and gold opportunity plan kicks in and covers the rest if required.</p>
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<p>You can update anytime after the initial FAFSA is filed. You can estimate the income and then once the returns are filed you can go back and update it. You can also do multiple updates if you find errors on the FAFSA. Keep in mind that the updates might change the amount of your F/A award and if you already received your award you might have to pay back some of it if you underestimated the income. You might want to slightly overestimate just to be safe.</p>