<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Does UC Berkeley have a full scholarship program (ALL expense covered) combined with an honor/enrichment program ?</p>
<p>I am talking about something like U. of Virginia's Jefferson Scholarship or U. of North Carolina's Morehead that not only provide full 4 year every expense-covered financial incentive but also provide careful grooming and enrichment perks.</p>
<p>thanks for your feedback in advance.</p>
<p>yes, it is very possible to get full tuition knocked off if you get both Regents/Chancellor's Scholarship as well as the Alumni Leadership Award (also, if you qualify, the Governor's Award also pays off)</p>
<p>it feels good with all these MERIT scholarships fa sho
but they are extremely competitive - the people who compete are very high achieving and usually use these scholarship incentives (Which they are awarded before they join Cal) as a way to turn down ivies or private schools</p>
<p>...basically, the bar to get these awards is heellllaaaaa high</p>
<p>The Regents Scholarship only covers a student's need, and if the student has no need, they will only be awarded $1000 per year.</p>
<p>Also, the amount you get for Regents is, I believe, need based. if you don't have some level of EFC need, you only get a small token amount plus the perks.</p>
<p>Alumni award is not need based</p>
<p>there are also levels within the scholarships...for instance, in alumni there are two levels that determine how much $$ you get...also, theres always national merit</p>
<p>hyeonjlee,
As far as I understand, there are some scholarships for certain high schools in the area (San Francisco, Oakland etc.).
Other than that, there seems to be no full scholarship programs based just on merit unless there is need.</p>
<p>My D got Regents, National Merit, Byrds, Lowes, Bank of America, and a few other community based scholarships. With all that, the total for four years is $15,000. NO Alumni though (not sure how they select). </p>
<p>UCLA on the other had offer very good merit based scholarships. My D got almost $40K (just from regents and Alumni)</p>
<p>Santabanta,
What is Governor's award?</p>
<p>Ijmom, I got a scholarship for being an alumnus from a "partner-high school," as Cal likes to call it. (I'm surprised they didn't use an acronym.)</p>
<p>It's based on financial need and merit. It's invite-only and you are contacted if you are elligible financially and academically. You interview and are told whether you are a recipient or not. My friend has gotten this scholarship and she's been able to budget herself so that her expenses are less than Cal's projected expense meaning that she actually got money in her account (her EFC was 0). This is the Cal Opportunity Scholarship by the way and it covers full need up to your EFC. I don't think I qualified given that my EFC was double, triple, and even four times more than some other people that received it. </p>
<p>Cal always uses need to determine merit scholarships, although they do honorariums if your EFC is too high (Regents' for example).</p>
<p>You can also get outside scholarships that you can take with you to Berkeley. You can go to fastweb.com to do a search for all scholarships you are eligible for. This is very helpful because, as people have already said, scholarships from Berkeley are very rare and hard to come by.</p>
<p>QuixoticRick,
I forgot the name, you are right it is called partner high schools.</p>
<p>incentive awards program scholarship. :)
it's $32K but if you get that, it's basically full tuition (if you include grants and financial aid)</p>
<p>Anyone know of non-need, merit based scholarships for continuing students?</p>
<p>Oh, forgot to include in the original post that my son is an out of state candidate. </p>
<p>so, it soulds like berkeley does NOT provide any needs blind, pure merit based scholarship that pays the FULL attendance expenses including tuition, room, board, books, stipends, etc to the out of state students.</p>
<p>U. of VA does have such a program: jefferson scholarship that is open to out of state students also purely based on merit. It provides a full ride plus taylored enrichment program.</p>
<p>no such deal for Berkeley, or any other Cal universities.... Can you confirm?</p>
<p>UC Davis and UC Riverside have something similar with the Regent's Scholarship. I believe Davis Regent's scholarship covers all of tuition regardless of need and regent's scholars are automatically accepted into the Honors Program which means they will take ALL of their lower division courses in small seminar style classes that are only open to them.</p>
<p>At UC Riverside, the Regent's Scholarship covers all of tuition plus any more need that you have so only the EFC is left. There is also an honors program that leads to mentoring and smaller class sizes.</p>
<p>I believe the other UC's also have similar programs but you may want to look into it.</p>
<p>hyeonjlee, UC Berkeley is not a good school for OOS students looking for purely merit base scholarships. They use their money mostly to cover financial needs and for in-state students first.</p>