<p>I just got my financial aid reward and it has a UC Santa Cruz Grant of $11,548.
Is this the Cal Grant that I received or will the Cal Grant not show up on the rewards list?
According to the Cal Grant site I got a loan of $10,200 but its not on the fin aid.
maybe I'll call</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz grant is the money from UCSC only. Cal Grant should be seperate but you should know Cal Grant A will only cover the difference from your UCSC Grant and Tuition costs (ie not for housing). Cal Grant B I’m pretty sure covers housing as well…</p>
<p>Cal Grant A is what I got. well dang thats unfortunate.</p>
<p>I would call. I got a higher offer on one of them, but people explained to me that the other one was better (and UCSC usually gives us the best one into our financial aid award).</p>
<p>Do you know when the deadline is? I think it’s in June, but I’m not sure.</p>
<p>Their estimate is this:
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<p>Are you guys accepting all the offers they give you? Or just some? @.@
I accepted all the grant money, which is around 22k but I haven’t accepted any loans yet…
Looking at Room and Board, that varies with what time of room and meal-plan we get. I don’t want to loan out more money than I’ll spend!! So I’m curious on what you guys are all doing</p>
<p>Same. Interested in what you guys plan to do.</p>
<p>Well depending on how much everything is going to cost, I’ll probably take the Fed Sub/Unsub Loans and the Perkins Loan too. I already accepted all grants. For me, Grants only cover about 22k and the work study doesn’t really help until I can find a job.</p>
<p>Considering those numbers the UC gives us are only estimates, its a small difference for all of us.</p>
<p>UCSC provided some numbers: [UC</a> Santa Cruz - Financial Aid - Welcome!](<a href=“http://www2.ucsc.edu/fin-aid/ugradbudget1011.shtml]UC”>http://www2.ucsc.edu/fin-aid/ugradbudget1011.shtml)</p>
<p>Just adding up the estimated fees, housing and board, and books = 27k (not including personal expenses and transportation).</p>
<p>It looks like even with 22k in grants, we need to loan out money @.@</p>
<p>So there is no deadline? We just accept as we need it as we go~?</p>
<p>How can someone be a “Non-Resident” and a “Commuter”?</p>
<p>@Consider I’m assuming “Non-Resident” would mean living off-campus to some sort?
And “Commuter” as maybe living elsewhere from UCSC and then driving to UCSC?</p>
<p>I think the table was put together by someone that couldn’t stand to leave a cell blank in the spreadsheet, even if it made no sense to fill it in.</p>
<p>A non-resident living elsewhere from UCSC and driving would be an off-campus non-resident. If commuting means driving a long distance it would cost more, not less, than off-campus non-resident.</p>
<p>If we wanted to stretch, I think you might imagine a non-resident living with a relative or whatever, free of rent. Or students of a family recently moved in from out of state. No cost rent and food would be the discriminator.</p>
<p>But a stretch, and more likely a need to fill in all the cells.</p>
<p>Non-Resident would be mean you live out of state.</p>