<p>do you get more grant money if you have better grades??</p>
<p>i got about 16,000 in grants from uci and waiting for ucla and worried about how much grant money im goign to receive cause i've been reading about people getting pretty much nothing from ucla in grants.</p>
<p>Yes you do.</p>
<p>You get roughly 4K for maintaining a 3.0 and above from the Fed. Gov. if you major in certain subjects. (SMART)</p>
<p>Um wierd. I got smart grant for all the other UC’s but not UCLA. My major is on the smart grant list too and i have a 3.92. That 4k would help a lot.</p>
<p>Raise hell! Call them up, and demand your money. You wouldn’t let someone who owes you money get away with not paying, would you?</p>
<p>I just found out my major is on the list too and I didn’t get the grant. So do I call UCLA or something?</p>
<p>i got 15k from UCLA with a ~3.5</p>
<p>wait did you get the smart grant, pinkerfloyd? or is that 15k other grants?</p>
<p>$2,700 pell grant
$12,247 scholarship recognition award</p>
<p>also $3,000 in work study, which i’m told is where you essentially get paid to study.</p>
<p>also, EFC of $2,632</p>
<p>my understanding of work study is you actually do a job. Which pays you, and gives you units. So instead of 4 classes, it’s 3 classes and a Job, but you still have 16 units.</p>
<p>really?</p>
<p>it can’t be more than 1 unit, though… can it?</p>
<p>i mean, i know that the parking attendants in those little booths at UCLA are on work study… and i always see them with their books wide open inside.
same goes with a buddy of mine who works at the library at UCB through work study… he says he deals with 3 or 4 people every 30 minutes, and studies or watches movies the rest of the time.</p>
<p>For the most part. You’ll be doing a job, but you can study while you do the job. I’m not sure how many units it’s actually worth, but i’m gonna assume 2 or more.</p>
<p>Quick question: So do we get any of this aid in checks? Like to spend as we choose?</p>
<p>fucck yeah… i’m all about assumptions.</p>
<p>after your tuition and fees are covered, the rest is dispersed in two installments… fall / spring… you can get check / direct deposit, so far as i know.</p>
<p>Assumptions got me to where I am now. Attending one of the best schools in the world for what I’ve chosen to study. haha!</p>
<p>Regarding the Smart Grant…</p>
<p>Just got off the phone with financial aid and the guy told me that the Smart Grant gets awarded in the middle of the quarter.</p>
<p>So I’m not getting awarded Cal Grant A or B and the reasoning is stated as “Score Below Cutoff”. But when I look up the codes, nothing has that exact wording. And I’m not getting Cal Grant C because the school is not eligible. Though the school they have down for me is a Cal State, so they may not be awarding me anything because I’m getting full Pell Grant and Cal States aren’t that expensive. I definitely need to change my school over to UCLA.</p>
<p>So could it be they have the wrong school down? What the heck does “Score Below Cutoff” mean?</p>
<p>ah nevermind, I figured it out. Apparently because it was a competitive Cal Grant, they give points based on GPA, parents info, time out of HS, HS performance, etc., and so if you don’t score enough points, you are disqualified for the Grant and you can’t appeal. I guess I’ve been out of HS too long and my performance there was sucky.</p>
<p>Hoping that the Cal Grant was only replacing UCLA grants.</p>
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I don’t know if what you are saying is correct for the Cal school system but it is definitley not true for WS in general. WS means you are eligible to apply for a WS job. If you find one and get the job you can work to earn up to the maximum awarded in WS. So for instance if you are awarded $3000 in WS and find a WS job paying $10 an hour you can work up to 300 hours at $10 to earn the full award. If you do not work the 300 hours you will not earn the full award. if the job pays less per hour you will have to work more hours to earn the award.</p>
<p>Some jobs may allow you to study while you earned the WS money. many are actual jobs that you have to work for the money and you cannot study while working. My daughter had a lab job and worked at the lab job. There were occasions when the boss had no work or her and she did study then but mostly worked.</p>
<p>I have never heard of WS being counted as units anywhere (maybe this is specific to your school system?). My daughter does whatever credit hours she is signed up for (usually 16 - sometimes more if she has labs) and works her WS job on top of them.</p>