<p>A friend of mine recently mentioned that on all UC campuses, tuition is waived for students whose families make less than 30k a year. Does anyone have a source or is that statement completely false?</p>
<p>If you make under 60,000, financial aid will cover tuition.</p>
<p>If I recall correctly, that ceiling was raised to 70,000 when the tuition increases were approved.</p>
<p>^Yup 70k or less now.</p>
<p>Sort of, CSU’s will “waive” tution while the UC’s will cover it for you (Now the ceiling is $70,000 as posted above). That’s probably where your friend was confused. Also there are special provisions for “wards of the state” and former foster youth.</p>
<p>Also note that one has to be a California resident to qualify (along with a few other requirements), not just have an income under $70k :)</p>
<p>[UC</a> Blue and Gold Opportunity - Am I Eligible?](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/blueandgold/eligible.html]UC”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/blueandgold/eligible.html)</p>
<p>also, if ur cal grant or pell grant or other FA already gives u enough money, the gold and blue opportunity plan (free tuition to household income less than $70,000) doesn’t apply. so if u get $13,000 already from all ur FA aid packages, u won’t get anything more. so all of that would be applied to the tuition, which will be around what $12,000 (?), u’ll just have $1000 left…but if u only get like $5k from pell and cal grants, then the B&G plan will cover the rest of the $7k in tuition fees. u still need to pay for everything else of course</p>