Financial Aid

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<p>@pos: So everything that is offered is what financial aid I’m getting?</p>

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<p>About how many hours per week is used for work study?</p>

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<p>@masterhammy: Yes, everything that is offered is what you will get for financial aid.</p>

<p>@HelloAll: You don’t need to work but I think it’s a great alternative to loans. </p>

<p>Work-Study does not limit students according to hours or jobs. As long as you haven’t earned your award amount, you can split it between two or more jobs. For campus positions the university usually limits students to a maximum of 20 hours per week (adding up all your campus jobs) during the fall and spring semesters. Check with the hiring department’s payroll administrator.
[Work-Study</a> Office - Students’ Frequently Asked Questions](<a href=“http://workstudy.berkeley.edu/Work-Study%20FAQ.htm]Work-Study”>http://workstudy.berkeley.edu/Work-Study%20FAQ.htm)</p>

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<p>To XBoredGuy-</p>

<p>S was also picked for verification, so he also can’t access Fin Aid package. After searching the fin aid site found that they will send with the admit packet an “estimated” fin aid award, along with a form that you have to fill out and return with parent & student tax returns, and then you should get the “official” award. I would do this as soon as you get the packet, because they don’t guarantee that they will be have it completed before the May 1 decision date- which in our case, isn’t good as we need to know “officially” what the package is before S makes his decision on where to attend. But, they said to wait for the form that they are sending in the mail with the admit packet, so don’t send tax returns without the form.</p>

<p>I believe once you are marked for verification, ALL schools have to comply, which has held up S’s fin aid at several schools - though others were able to make offers, subject to tax info we send in matching what we put on our FAFSA. Don’t worry too much, just get the info in as quick as you can.</p>

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<p>Re: verification</p>

<p>We returned the form and tax returns immediately and UC Berkeley sent us the finalized FA package around the 2nd or 3rd week of April.</p>

<p>At that time, the student’s name and social security number had to be on each page. I just made a page of labels with the info and stuck a label on each page (we are self employed so we had to send in a multitude of pages).</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>At UCSD i was selected for verification, but on the Berkeley fin aid website they never asked me for verification…</p>

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<p>I used to think that too but discovered from a couple of financial aid officers that post on CC that it is not the case. Schools are required to verify 30% of all the FAFSA applicants they receive. Some will verify everyone. Others will verify all those selected by FAFSA (ie - those with a * by the EFC) and possibly additional to get to the 30% requirement. Others will verify only those with the * and stop once they get to 30%. Others use their own criteria to decide who to verify. </p>

<p>I was told this by 2 financial aid officers in the financial aid forum when I suggested someone go ahead and sent their verification documentation when they saw the * by their EFC and before it was requested. The financial aid officers said to wait until it is requested as the * does not mean you will be verified but if you send the information in then they have to do the verification process.</p>

<p>My daughter has a * again this year (3rd year in a row). We have not yet received the request for verification documents and her financial aid page says all documents are complete, so I am curious to see if they do request them this year. I hope not as i want to see her financial aid package NOW - they are slow with it this year - and verification would delay it more.</p>