Hello guys. I was looking at my award status for UCR (transfer Student) and I was wondering…why am I getting very little money in terms of pell/cal/ucr grant as compared to some of my friends. My family makes less money than some of them, I have a better GPA than some, and I filed it before all of them, yet I’m not getting what I thought I’d get. I know I’m kinda sounding greedy, but I just want to know why. I have above a 3.5 with my family making less than 45K. I got less than 4K for pell, 12K for cal (is that good), and less than 2K for the UCR grant. Is it maybe because I put living off campus on my FAFSA? some clarification and explanation would be appreciated. Thank you!
You got the MAX amount for Cal Grant.
What size is your family? one parent or two parents in household?
The other people who got more money may have:
larger family
two parents in the home
more than one child going to college
different majors…maybe their dept major gave an award?
maybe they are a URM and they were given an endowed award for URMs?
Are any of them incoming freshman?