<p>So I just checked and I'm into UCLA, but there's no financial information on their website. Does anyone know when/ how we find out about scholarships, financial aid, etc?</p>
<p>Also, how generous is UCLA with money? Im an out of state student so i assume my chances aren't great as it seems most of their merit money goes to cali kids? and what about need-based- aid?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>Check your myFAO. From the admissions page, go to ‘New Bruins website’. Then there’s a checklist of stuff, and you click on ‘Activate UCLA Logon ID’, and then ‘View Scholarships’</p>
<p>I got in too, and they gave me quite a lot of money…I’m in-state, and my EFC was not low, so I have no idea why.</p>
<p>Go here: [New</a> Bruins - Financial Aid and Scholarships - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/NewBruins/AidScholarships.htm]New”>http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/NewBruins/AidScholarships.htm)</p>
<p>Then click on “View Your Financial Aid/Scholarship Award Information”. It’ll ask you to log in and you should be able to view your financial aid status there.</p>
<p>I didn’t think they would be very generous, and EFC wasn’t really in the aid range. There’s so much I love about UCLA, it’s campus, etc… but the out-of-state tuition is pretty killer. Decisions are gonna be a tough call.</p>
<p>@solastalgic I’m in state too, but I didn’t receive any gift aid from UCLA. Then again, my EFC is approx. $45K (I don’t know if that’s the range you meant when you suggested that your EFC was “not low”).</p>
<p>My EFC was 0, and they didn’t give me very much money at all. I’m out-of-state, though.</p>
<p>AHH. I went to the website above, but still it says: “Sorry, there are no Notices available for you to view for the period selected. Please select another Academic Year.” 
I definitely filed FAFSA before March 2nd…</p>
<p>The uc’s don’t help oos students meet need. They can’t meet need for instate, much less for the big oos costs. That’s true for most oos publics.</p>
<p>Yeah, I completely understand. Kinda bummed that they expect us to pay more than we make a year, but it is what it is.</p>
<p>I didn’t get anything either. Really hoping some of the scholarships I applied for pull through.</p>
<p>On their website it lists room and board as 13,000 something for next year. Does anyone know if you have to pay that full amount? Or can you choose a smaller meal plan or something to lower the cost?</p>
<p>I was accepted out of state (my EFC is around $12K), and they offered me about $8,500 in gift aid, which is pretty nice. But yeah, it’s gonna be hard to swing the tuition anyways, much less for four years…</p>
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<p>Yes, you will most likely pay less than that. There are much cheaper places to live. Don’t skimp on the food - never a good thing to starve.</p>
<p>[2009-2010</a> On-Campus Housing Rates (1002806)](<a href=“http://map.ais.ucla.edu/portal/site/UCLA/menuitem.789d0eb6c76e7ef0d66b02ddf848344a/?vgnextoid=cd6024df52071110VgnVCM200000ddd76180RCRD]2009-2010”>http://map.ais.ucla.edu/portal/site/UCLA/menuitem.789d0eb6c76e7ef0d66b02ddf848344a/?vgnextoid=cd6024df52071110VgnVCM200000ddd76180RCRD)</p>
<p>no gift aid for me :(</p>
<p>im from out of state and got $214. ***.</p>
<p>^lololol</p>
<p>can u guys state ur EFC, financial aid amount, final out of pocket costs, and if ur in-state/out of state?</p>
<p>i got no gift aid at all. i am so ****ed…</p>
<p>out of state, no aid, efc=49,917 ■■■…</p>
<p>anybody know if scholarships are still available???</p>
<p>If some of those OOSers know they can’t afford it right off the bat (especially with the insane budget cuts), then why apply at all?</p>
<p>UCLA is no more unaffordable than USC or an Ivy League and people apply there. Also note that, despite talk of financial aid, most people just aren’t poor enough to get it.</p>
<p>In-state
EFC=28,000
Aid=nothing, hooray for loans and working!</p>
<p>I have a question about gift aid. As I said earlier, I was—suprisingly, and thankfully—awarded with $8,500 in Gift Aid as a “Scholarship Recognition Award” as an out of state student. When I hover over the item in my Financial Aid site, it describes the Scholarship Recognition Award as:</p>
<p>“Scholarship Recognition Award is a one-year, nonrenewable scholarship awarded to entering freshman and transfer students who completed their FAFSA before the March 2 filing deadline. These awards are made to recognize stellar academic achievement, as evidenced by admission to UCLA, to students who demonstrate significantly high financial need. Since these scholarships are awarded for one year only, students who apply on time and continue to demonstrate financial need will be funded through University Grants for their future years of study.”</p>
<p>Does that last sentence mean that I will probably receive around the same amount of gift aid (just not the SRA) from the university in my sophomore, etc. years if I continue to “demonstrate financial need and apply on time”? Or does it mean that I’ll just have to find my own scholarships?</p>
<p>Did anyone else get this?</p>