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<p>NOPE…this is absolutely not true. If you are not a student at USCS, you will NOT be permitted to live in student housing…PERIOD.</p>
<p>If you decide NOT to attend the university, you will very likely lose your housing DEPOSIT…but you will no be required to live in the university housing…or pay for it…as you won’t be a student there.</p>
<p>The financial aid award is based on the information provided on the FAFSA. It is only as accurate as the info provided. Your initial information omitted a sizable asset, and some income (the rental income). That was a huge omission. </p>
<p>The second house will have to be listed as an asset as long as your family owns it. This would be the case at ANY college you were to attend.</p>
<p>If your family does not have another plan for paying for college, you might want to consider taking a gap year, working, and applying to schools that are more affordable or where you would garner significant enough merit aid to make it affordable.</p>
<p>If your EFC is really $35,000…then for any college that costs that much…or more…your parents will be expected to pay at LEAST that amount.</p>
<p>UCSC does not guarantee to meet full need for accepted students so your need might not have been met anyway…outside of eligibility for the Cal Grant (if you are instate for CA…are you?)…and it seems that you are ineligible for this.</p>