<p>How does financial aid for living off campus work?</p>
<p>What do we have to provide to the school to get the housing paid for?</p>
<p>I believe the financial aid sets you up with a budget. You will have to stay within this budget if you’re doing off campus housing. So say your budget is 10k per year and your apartment is gonna cost 12k per year, then you owe 2k out of pocket…i don’t think you can take out more money in student loans to cover it.
The overall process should be the same though. Instead of giving the money directly to the on campus housing department or whatever… it is disbursed to you and you pay the rent yourself…but you don’t necessarily get any more money than you would if you live on campus.
But im sure someone else has a better answer…if not just contact the FinAid at UCLA.</p>
<p>It works exactly like dorming and getting financial aid. They just assume you pay less for an apartment so you get less aid (not much less aid though so its great)! </p>
<p>You don’t have to provide the school with anything unless they audit you. You simply check the box that says you are a off campus student on your financial aid, and you are good!</p>
<p>The auditing system was pretty messed up. I didn’t get a notice and I wouldn’t have known had I not looked at the FAO site.</p>
<p>The same happened to my roommate. He said he wouldnt have gotten it either had he not randomly checked myFAO, lol.</p>
<p>Ookla, as others have posted before me, off campus FinAid works exactly the same as on-campus FinAid. However, in my experience, you get slightly less off campus FinAid than you do for on-campus. It’s still managable though as long as your off-campus apartment isn’t super expensive…</p>