<p>In general, oos students at the UCs get whatever *federal aid *for which they are eligible, which may include a Pell grant awarded on a sliding scale to students with FAFSA EFCs of beween $0 EFC (Pell=$5,500) and $5,273 EFC (Pell=$555) and a Stafford loan of $3,500 subs plus $2,000 unsubs.</p>
<p>If your EFC is $0, that adds up to, at most, $11,000. If your EFC is $5,274 or more, the most you will receive is the $3,500 subs and $2,000 unsubs Stafford. With an estimated oos cost of attendance of ~$50,000, that leaves $39,000 to $44,500 per year to be covered. In-state students would be eligible for UC grants (institutional aid), but those are generally not available to out of state students (because the *taxpayers of California *insist that their tax dollars go to their children, not to oos kids).</p>
<p>This is why we come on here to say, over and over, to oos students that if they would like to attend a public university in California, they should be prepared to pay full oos cost. Unfortunately many applicants find this out in April when their financial aid package is presented and it is then too late to apply to schools more likely to offer them institutional financial aid.</p>