Who gets them? Based on stats alone? Who decides? When do people find out? I’ve read something about being invited to interview (or maybe it was something other than interview), what’s that about? What are some of the differences at the different schools? What are the benefits? How has regents affected decisions for people? Anything else?
Thank you in advance.
Every UC offers Regents to freshmen, but not all offer the scholarship to transfers. In terms of transfers, it is hard to determine the exact process as not all 4.0s with extra-curricular activities get offered it. Each campus that offers Regents to transfers has its own protocol involving finalists and winners so you need to do some research on your own by checking each campus website.
All Regents, regardless of campus, offer these core benefits:
Amounts are current based on 2019 data:
Notification dates also vary so again check each campus website for further details.
Thank you, Gumbymom!
I wonder why the range in scholarship amounts across the system. And weird which ones are higher and which are lower.
Finalists? How does that work? How does one get from finalist to “winner”?
Regents is handled differently at each school.
Some like UCLA and UC Davis invite you to apply.
UC Berkeley conducts interviews for potential Regent scholars and if selected, you are notified with an early admission.
For the rest of the UC’s, it is automatic upon acceptance.
Regent scholars are selected from the top 1-2% of applicants and reviewed holistically so depending upon how each UC determines the scholars, there may be no finalist just winners.
I cannot comment on the reasoning behind the $$ amounts for the scholarships other than the top UC’s do not need to attract top student applicants with merit aid.
Just from my case:
2019 I got Regent in Riverside admission offer, automatically when they accepted me by TAG. They offered 5k/ year and total 10k for my next 2 years.
UCI does not offer me but I heard it was automatically rewarded. Forgot what grants they gave me but total I got more than Riverside (Regent + Pell + Cal Grant).
UCLA did not consider me for Regent as others who was interviewed for it. At least I know they preferred Honor students. I got 4.0 but my CCC did not have good Honor program.
Instead, UCLA gave me many grants so that the total package from UCLA was about $200 more than UCI whereas UCR gave about 2k less. Example: Parents Grant as I am parenting student (2k/year) for all students with dependent.
UCB Regents scholarships may award a need-based amount; historically, this replaced the expected student contribution (federal direct loan and expected work earnings or work study) with additional scholarship/grant.
All the regents scholarships may give more if needs-based.
Thanks, everyone.
Get this: I heard UCD gave Regents invites last year around this time or mid February last year, so I asked my son about it. He said, “Oh yeah, I got something about that.” I about panicked thinking he could’ve missed a deadline or something. Thankfully he has not, and will be working on that ASAP.
Their Regents is generous, as Gumbymom said, $7500…