My friend's EFC is 46000 with his mother dead, father filed for bankruptcy at a UC

[chaospaladin]

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@thumper1

If your friend is paying $46K to go to a UC, he must be an OOS student. The UCs do NOT promise to meet full financial need. They are public universities in CA…a state which is having a lot of financial issues overall. </p>

<p>If he has a college fund that is supporting ALL of his expenses to attend this UC, I’m not sure I understand the problem? </p>

<p>Your friend’s appeal of his financial aid might net him nothing in the end.</p>

<p>Chaos, gotta ask, are you becoming the “resident financial aid expert” for all of your friends at your UC? This is the third “friend” you have posted about. It is very possible that you (as a fellow college student) aren’t hearing the full financial picture from your friends.

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<p>Well it wouldn’t hurt to gain more information. Not only this, but I wouldn’t mind exploring the career path of being a financial aid officer after graduation as one of my after graduation options. Also I don’t remember the 3 friend threads. One of them is this. One of them is the bank account, checking account FAFSA verification (who does not attend a UC), and I cannot remember what was the other thread I made for a friend. Do you remember?</p>

<p>Actually this person who has a 46000 EFC is a California resident and his COA is only 31000. Well the fund will not have enough money to support his last 2-3 quarters.</p>