My dream school is UCLA (it won’t allow me to post in the UCLA category for some reason, so yes it’s in the wrong category), but I live out of state and therefore would be offered no financial aid. $62k/yr is too much for my family to pay, especially for undergraduate school. I saw a thread where someone suggested another poster to look into federal or pell grants since they couldn’t afford UCLA OOS tuition. I’m not sure what the qualifications for these grants are, so I would appreciate any info on requirements/the process.
Did you fill out the FASFA? If you did and your income is low enough, (below $50,000) you can qualify for Federal grants including Pell grants, but still these would not be enough to make a dent in the $62K/year costs for UCLA or any UC.
Amounts can change yearly. The maximum Federal Pell Grant award is $5,815 for the 2016–17 award year (July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017). For the 2017–18 award year (July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018), the maximum award will be $5,920. The amount you get, though, will depend on
your financial need,
your cost of attendance,
your status as a full-time or part-time student, and
your plans to attend school for a full academic year or less.
You may not receive Federal Pell Grant funds from more than one school at a time.
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/grants-scholarships/pell
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/sites/default/files/aid-glance-2017-18.pdf
UC’s give mainly need-based aid to in-state students in the form of Federal grants/Cal grants and the Blue and Gold opportunity.
You can also take out a total of $27K/4 years in Federal student loans and if you are low income, you could qualify for work study. Again, definitely not enough to pay for a UC.
Is this article true? Do the UC’s actually provide that much to nonresidents? Everywhere else I’ve seen said that they provide OOS kids with practically nothing. This confused me.
That article WAS true but in 2015, the UC regents voted to eliminate most of the financial aid given to out of state applicants.
The issue has always been that the UC system is funded by California taxpayers so in-state applicants should reap the benefits. The UC regents have also voted to cap the # of OOS students admitted to the UC’s at around 20%, so it will be even harder to get an acceptance as an OOS along with no FA.