<p>Can someone please tell me how to collect my financial aid? I am so confused...I am going to UCLA.</p>
<p>Please help :)</p>
<p>first things first.</p>
<p>did you apply for financial aid?</p>
<p>Did you get an award letter</p>
<p>Is your financial aid award more than your cost to attend UCLA?
if yes, then the school will refund you a check for difference late in the fall after they apply what you owe on your account to the school.</p>
<p>If your financial aid does not fully cover your cost of attendance, you will pay the difference</p>
<p>Yeah, I applied and checked my amount awarded online. </p>
<p>Thanks for the response, and is it the same like that with all schools?</p>
<p>So how do I use the money from my awarded amount? I'm still confused. :)</p>
<p>If you call the financial aid office, they have people there to unconfuse you.</p>
<p>I don't know UCLA but imagine it is similar to my daughters school. There all financial aid money other than work study money (scholarships, grants and loans etc ) are put into the bursars account. So say you have $15,000 in grants etc - the 1st semester half the award ($7,500) is put into the bursars account. Then all your expenses are charged to the account (tuition, housing etc). If the expenses are more than the grants etc - say $10,000 then you have to pay the difference ($2,500). If the expenses are less than the grants (say $7,000) then the difference ($500) is paid to you at the end of the semester. Then it repeats the next semester. If you have been awarded work study then you have to find a work study job and what you earn is paid direct to you.</p>
<p>Call your school and find out for sure - my Ds school has the info on their website - have you checked at your school? Good luck.</p>
<p>Also check whether you have to accept any awards and make sure to do so (having checked conditions first).</p>