<p>Hey guys! I'm a future applicant of some of the UCs, specifically the top tier. However, I am Out of state (East Coast). I am the oldest of 3 kids, and my parents probably wont be able be support the 55, 000 plus. So my question is: how does OOS Financial Aid work? I heard is was significantly lower compared to in-state students. Could anyone provide by how much (eg 50% less).</p>
<p>Thanks in advance. I know there are aid calculators, but my parents arent comfortable with telling me all their stats yet.</p>
<p>You need to look at your own state schools and private colleges that offer large merit scholarships (there is a thread for this in the financial aid part of this forum) if you need significant aid.</p>
<p>State schools were created to serve students in that state and they are financially supported by residents of the state through income, property or sales taxes. That is why there is a significant difference in resident and nonresident costs.</p>
<p>There is very little hope of getting financial aid from the California state schools. The schools are popular enough that there are plenty of students from out of state who can afford to pay those high costs, and there is no incentive for the schools to offer money as a means of attracting out of state students. </p>
<p>UC’s seem to mostly only affordable to OOS students who can either full pay…or have a low income custodial parent, but have NCP’s that will pay the gap. </p>
<p>a family with a good income will likely find UCs to be unaffordable once they add that $23k to EFC for a total cost. </p>
<p>Assuming that your family has a decent income (based on your statement that your family probably can’t pay $55k), you can’t expect any aid. </p>
<p>Unless your family will pay, move on to Plan B.</p>
<p>What is your situation? how much will they pay?? </p>
<p>Do you still want to go to med school? If so, going OOS to a UC is a bad plan anyway.</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted OOS to UCLA and UCSC.
UCLA offered a merit scholarship on the order of $5000 per year. UCSC has an OOS merit scholarship, which she got, of $14,000 or $14,500 per year (can’t recall which, this was 2 years ago). That was it. OOS is otherwise responsible for full cost. She’s attending USC which was higher on her list and for which we qualified for some need-based aid.</p>
<p>Don’t get your heart set on UCs coming from out of state unless you know your parents can come up with at least $40,000 per year in cold hard cash. If your parents aren’t comfortable telling you how much money they have - as you said in post #1 - assume they will not have $160,000+ laying around to send to a UC bursar.</p>
<p>It was a huge relief when my D was accepted to USC as she had it in her head she would be attending UCLA otherwise.</p>
<p>You can run the NPCs (if they will differentiate OOSers,it might be helpful). You can also keep the school on your list, realizing it is a lottery ticket with low odds of getting to an affordable price.</p>
<p>One of my son’s close friends was accepted to UCLA a few years ago, and he got $5K from them as merit award. He ended up a a private Little Ivy and the cost there was less than what it would have been at UCLA for OOS. He did not get much aid at all from them. </p>
<p>^ That will be enough for the $5k merit from UCLA as mentioned now by 2 posters. It may get you about 3x that from one of the lower UC schools. You are not going to get a giant package from a UC even with perfect SATs.
Look at private colleges in California (there are many) and some of the non-UC state schools like Cal Poly SLO. </p>
<p>Ask your parents exactly how much money they will make available for you for school. This doesn’t mean they have to give you any more info than you need. As you are a sophomore (?) can you spend time looking for outside scholarships? </p>