<p>The financial aid calculator should include all grants received. The Cal Grant is one of many grants that you might get.</p>
<p>Here is a list at UCI
<a href=“Grants | Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships | UCI”>Grants | Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships | UCI;
<p>I’m sure each school has their own campus specific grants, but either way its money you don’t have to pay back.</p>
<p>As far as I know, when you fill out a FAFSA you are automatically signed up for the Cal Grant. I get FAFSA and the Cal grant right now but I never directly applied for a Cal grant.</p>
<p>what do you mean cal grant application? I thought all you have to do is fill out fafsa and have your ccc gpa sent in??</p>
<p>and can you get cal grant A B and the other B? or can you only receive one?</p>
<p>Yeah there isn’t one. Someone asked if anyone got their cal grant app in. You’re right, when you sign up for FAFSA they forwards your GPA. What is A B etc?</p>
<p>Cal Grant A fees: $12,192
Cal Grant B fees: $12,192
Cal Grant B Stipend: $1,551 (Cal Grant B pays stipend only in first year. Subsequent years include fees.)</p>
<p>^^ that was under the cal grant link on the uci financial aid link that lookin4forward posted</p>
<p>how come everyone takes statistics for their math requirement but I took college algebra which also statisfies the requirement and it’s way easier??</p>
<p>Is your cal grant GPA really your transfer (UC) GPA?</p>
<p>@uchappytrain- Stats is a prerequisite for many majors. Personally, I did better in my stats class than any other math class ive ever taken lol</p>
<p>T-minus 74 days.</p>
<p>(at the most)</p>
<p>Yeah some majors wants stats instead(which I think is much easier). I hate algebra and am not a math person. Stupid UCI needs me to take calc though. I can’t imagine why, LA nor Berkeley require calc for my major…stupid!</p>
<p>thats not true iDizzle about the cal grant. Unless your school does it for you automatically. </p>
<p>Its best to double check (I don’t trust some financial aid counselor to do it automatically). I am a special case also because not all my transcripts are in and I have to make sure they all (a lot) get evaluated on time before March 2nd.</p>
<p>[FAFSA</a> Application, FAFSA Financial Aid, Student Loans FAFSA - Important Tasks to Remember](<a href=“http://www.calgrants.org/index.cfm?navid=21]FAFSA”>http://www.calgrants.org/index.cfm?navid=21)</p>
<p>Your school has to submit an official g.pa. verification and a fafsa needs to be filled out to qualify for a Cal Grant. Sooo knowing that g.p.a is sent based on all grades before March 2nd, that will be your official transfer g.p.a (from your CC). The school you transfer to might calculate it different if classes don’t transfer or what not…</p>
<p>@uchappytrain those are 2011-2012 amounts for the cal grant at UCI so they might change for next year. Should be close though (and hopefully more!)</p>
<p>@lookin4ward is it possible to receive both cal grants A & B?</p>
<p>@iDizzle I know right! UCI has some wack requirements. every other uc for my major (history) requires 12 history classes at the most, while UCI requires that plus a philosophy class and 4 years of another language and some other bs requirements. what’s their deal??? i think they’re trying too hard to be an upper tier UC lol</p>
<p>And is it possible that my community college will send my non transferrable gpa to my cal grant? or are they required to send my uc transferrable gpa?</p>
<p>they might, they might not. I would talk to you financial aid counselor happy… go on a friday. You walk right in with no wait.</p>
<p>Well I looked at the gpa that my school submitted for last year and it is my non-transferrable gpa. So is it going to affect my financial aid if they submit that one?</p>
<p>And, my transferrable gpa is actually higher than that one, but UC’s go by the gpa on your UC application, correct? Or do UC’s go by the gpa on your cal grant? I’m worried =/</p>
<p>Well actually the UC will calculate it, per school. Technically each school will calculate it different as you don’t know which courses will transfer to that campus or not. </p>
<p>I just want a counselor to tell me what my transfer g.p.a. will be. Have to wait another week or 2 to find out.</p>
<p>@ looking4ward: I’m sorry, I was thinking of the Pell grant? But yeah if they don’t do it automatically you just fill out the form and your cc takes care of the rest.</p>
<p>UGH this forum is so buggy my post got LOST. ARGH.</p>
<p>@uchappy train, your gpa doesnt matter as long as it meets the minimum requirement. of all the half dozen counselors ive met with, including financial aid reps, the general consensus is calgrants are handed out in a lottery-type fashion. calgrants for transfers are very small, less than 9,000 awarded in 2008. meanwhile, high school applicants got 200,000+ awards.</p>
<p>3.0 GPAs get access to calgrant A. but for calgrant b, every gpa range gets the same amount of awards. there is no serious difference between high and low gpas.</p>
<p>although lower income students have an advantage for calgrant b.</p>
<p>my school received 400,000 in calgrant money for 15,000 students. 300 received awards.</p>