<p>When is the last day to accept the awards?
Im hearing July 2nd and July 15th...</p>
<p>On my tritonlink, under were I can accept/deny awards, it says this:</p>
<p>To avoid cancellation of your aid, you must accept or decline your awards no later than:<br>
Jul 14, 2010</p>
<p>Mine says:</p>
<p>Your 2010-2011 financial aid awards are available for your review and acceptance via TritonLink (tritonlink.ucsd.edu). You have 21 days to complete the acceptance process described below. Failure to do so will result in the cancellation of your UC financial aid.View awarding policies for Graduate or Undergraduate students.</p>
<p>What if my financial situation recently changed dramatically, such as a my parents recently going through a divorce? How would I tell the financial aid office? Wouldn’t this incident change my financial aid package?</p>
<p>you can appeal to the financial aid office. i did this last year.</p>
<p>So what’s the best way to contact them about this? I can’t exactly drive 2 hours to UCSD and tell them directly. Should I call them and explain to them my situation? Sorry about all the questions, but UCSD expects me to accept or decline the loans initially offered to me by July 15 and I’m pretty lost.</p>
<p>yes, give them a call and ask about the appealing process. i basically wrote a short, descriptive letter explaining what new circumstances came up and they adjusted my financial aid accordingly. (of course, you’re not going to automatically get an increased amount of aid because of this)</p>
<p>What if the financial office does not respond to my email or letter by July 15? Then how would I know what to accept or decline in terms of loans because I wouldn’t know if they adjusted my financial package or not. I’m asking this just in case…</p>
<p>i turned in one of my documents in 2 weeks late last year so i ended up getting only half of what my preliminary awards said, but i appealed and they gave me back all the awards they initially took away. my appeal process went on all the way through august, and you should accept the awards you want right now in case your appeal doesn’t go through.</p>
<p>Ok, I just emailed financial office about my situation. I hope everything goes smoothly. Oh, and I thought that when I “accept” a loan, then I can’t back out of it…The deadline to accept/decline loans is looming closer and it’s scaring me. If I accept the loans now, but decide to decline some of them afterwards because of an adjusted financial package (assuming that is will be adjusted), that’s ok right? I can do that?</p>
<p>call the financial aid office and ask. im not completely sure what i did last year cuz i dont remember exactly, but my best guess is that when they changed my awards, i had to go through the accepting/declining process again.</p>
<p>Ok I will call them and ask. Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>anyone else going to accept unsubsidized loans?</p>
<p>i would accept them. you only need to pay the interest while you are in school, and it doesn’t amount to much cuz the loan is $2000 or below.</p>
<p>if you don’t accept the loan, it gives the financial aid office the message that you have enough funds that you don’t need the loan and they might reduce your awards in the future. though i wouldn’t accept the plus loans and whatnot. but the unsubsidized loan, i would. just know that if you do not accept them, and next year your awards come out to a lot less than what you expected, don’t be surprised</p>
<p>what is that really true?
i already rejected the unsubsidized because the interest rate was too high…</p>
<p>how is 6.8% on a maximum of $2000 too high? that comes out to $136 a year, and if you accept it all 4 years, that is $544, which is pocket change compared to how much ucsd costs over 4 years.</p>
<p>i’m pretty sure it is true because i have a financial aid adviser and that is what he told me, and he’s been doing financial aid stuff for uc kids for over 15 years. AND from other students i know who have rejected the unsubsidized loan in the past, their awards the following year were not as much as the previous year.</p>