Reporting and Outside Scholarship?

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<p>So, I just recently received a check from an outside scholarship agency. How do I report this to UCLA? </p>

<p>UCLA</a> Financial Aid Office - Reporting Outside Scholarship Awards</p>

<p>Here it says
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If you receive a scholarship check from an outside agency, please forward it to:</p>

<p>UCLA Remittance Processing Center
10920 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite. 107
Los Angeles, Ca. 90024-6503
Attn: Christine Hatada

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<p>But would I have to, say, write my SSN on the check? Write my UCLA ID number on it?</p>

<p>Thanks. :)</p>

<p>EDIT: Actually, the last four digits of my SSN are already there, so scratch the part about the SSN.</p>

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<p>I have somewhat a different but related question. </p>

<p>Up until I saw your post, I hadn’t realized that we need to mail the outside scholarship check to them. </p>

<p>The thing is that I am getting a scholarship from my cc which I NEED to use for my housing during the month of September. It seems to me that if I were to send this check to them, I wouldn’t see this money again until… the quarter starts? So I’m very confused about this. In short:</p>

<p>Am I required to mail them the check?
Can I just report the scholarship and explain my situation?
If I do mail the check to them, when will I get it back?</p>

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<p>if the check is made out to you(not ucla), you only need to report it on your efan offer(there is a space to fill out for other scholarships) and submit online.</p>

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<p>Okay- GREAT! I was super worried about this :)</p>

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<p>if the check is made out to you (not ucla) then you don’t even need to report it since ucla will not even know unless someone tells them. that’s what i did because i needed the extra cash.</p>

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<p>^thats the shady way though…i didn’t get my FA reduced from it, of course mine was only like 3,000</p>

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<p>i didn’t say it was the ethical thing to do.</p>

<p>i didn’t because i depend on financial aid and scholarships. I saved the extra money for the following year since things could change from one year to the next i.e. EFC, fee hikes, housing rates, etc. Also, crap happens.</p>

<p>If i reported it then they would have just reduced my grant money so the university keeps it.</p>

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<p>^yep. UCLA will just decrease your grant money if you have scholarships that cover more than what you are awarded in loans/work-study.</p>

<p>doing what grassbandit is doing would be the smart, if not necessarily ethical, thing to do. it’s your scholarship money.</p>

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<p>Why would you have to report scholarships to UCLA?</p>

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<p>^ Some scholarship organizations make the check payable to the university so you have no choice but to tell them.</p>

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<p>Well, my scholarship isn’t that big… it’s just 1500- but that will pay my rent for September (which I couldn’t pay otherwise). </p>

<p>@GrassBandit: How long ago did you do it?</p>

<p>@Sapphire: They didn’t even reduce the loans? In that case, it’ll be good for me since mine it’s much lower, right?</p>

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<p>uhm i think you’re better off not reporting it, I went back to look at my FA offers and realized that my extra scholarships didn’t take effect into reducing loans because I ended up getting a scholarship from a UCLA alumni. At a financial aid presentation, they said FA would deduct loan amounts by the amount of outside scholarships, then after that amount is covered, work study is reduced, and finally university grants. So… just use the money, proportionally 1500 is not going to cause an audit or speculation like say a 15000 or 20000 scholarship would, and if you need the 1500 in loans that would be deducted youre better off not reporting and paying your rent =]</p>

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<p>I did it for the past two years so I had enough to cover my cost of living this past year. It’s a good thing I didn’t report it since my grant amount was reduced, fees increased, rent increased a bit, and I would rather do 199 credit than work-study.</p>

<p>They don’t really snoop around unless they get notified. I’ve been audited before, but that’s only to verify my housing status.</p>