UCD Class of 2013

<p>Yeah, I guess that makes sense. I would love to do summer, but how does that work with financial aid? I feel like there’s so much I don’t know.</p>

<p>I was also thinking about taking classes during the summer session. I found this:
[Summer</a> Financial Aid](<a href=“http://financialaid.ucdavis.edu/undergraduate/students/Programs/Summer.html]Summer”>Summer Financial Aid)</p>

<p>So, it sounds like you can apply for financial aid for the summer session if you were admitted for Fall 2011 AND filed a 2010-2011 FAFSA. Unfortunately, I did not do that…</p>

<p>I didn’t do that either. There’s always next summer, I suppose.</p>

<p>RE: Financial Aid and your housing status, changing from on-campus to off-campus will definitely alter your cost of attendance. No way to say exactly how much, because every campus calculates room & board costs differently, but yeah, it’s a safe bet that off-campus COA is less than on-campus COA. Still, it shouldn’t be that big a change; the real hit would be if you changed to living with your parents. That would drastically reduce your COA.</p>

<p>If your package is full-need, indicated by “Remaining Cost: $0.00” at the end of your MyAwards summary (just above the term-by-term breakdown), then I would expect a reduction of your COA to reduce your “Entering UG Scholarship” rather than your subsidized loan. I don’t know that as a certainty but it looks to me like they’re calculating the gift aid based on left-overs after the loan is applied, and not vice-versa.</p>

<p>Whats the point of calculating the scholarship after the loan amount…?</p>

<p>This is a great question because I set up my aid initially to be “on campus” and will switch that to either “off campus” or “living with parent” as necessary. </p>

<p><a href=“http://facts.ucdavis.edu/documents/undergraduate_cost_of_attendance.pdf[/url]”>http://facts.ucdavis.edu/documents/undergraduate_cost_of_attendance.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>One has to note even if you choose living with parents, the COA is still $22,865. If worst comes to worst, I don’t think you WILL lose any of your Entering UG scholarship because that’s either calgrant A or blue and gold, and is related to covering only your tuition. </p>

<p>If you qualify for calgrants, you’ll get a small bit that doesn’t go towards that, but it wasn’t much anyway. </p>

<p>Call me an optimist but I don’t really think the aid will go down unless you got a full ride.</p>

<p>The loan comes from the Department of Education, so it doesn’t cost UCD anything.</p>

<p>If a student is offered the full $5,500 subsidized loan and still has financial need, the campus may use a need-based scholarship to “fill up” the remaining gap. This results in an aid package which is “full-need” in that the total of all offered aid and the student’s self-help expectation is equal to the total COA, and theoretically this student can reasonably be expected to be able to afford to attend. So, the scholarship in this model is flexible rather than having a set amount (e.g., $500 or $2,000).</p>

<p>UCM, in comparison, offered me about 85% of the loan amount; a similar generic UC scholarship (it was called “Golden Bobcat” something or other) filled up the remaining gap exactly. What I would assume is going on here is that, based on my application, I was put into some category of students to whom they wanted to make a slightly-better-than-full-need offer in hopes of attracting them away from schools like UCD, where they might only get a full-need offer. Students in this category are offered about 85% of the loan amount, which makes more room for the flexible scholarship.</p>

<p>But this is all just an educated guess as to their system, based on what I see in my aid packages and on my financial aid training. I could be completely wrong. I doubt UCM has the funding to offer every student a little extra gift aid, given the current budgetary situation, but it’s possible. There are a million ways it could be done, but if I was a betting man I’d wager that a small adjustment to your COA will be matched by a similar adjustment to the generic UC scholarship, whether the COA increases or decreases.</p>

<p>Just wondering, is anyone else enrolling at UCD with the intention of transferring after a year as a senior? Unfortunately, I’m sure like many others on here, I didn’t get into my first choice UC, which was UCSD for Biology. And because of several factors it’s in my best interest to be in San Diego relatively close to my family while I pursue my educational goals. In addition, while I know it’s much easier to transfer from a CCC to a UC than from another UC, I just can’t afford postponing my education another year waiting at a community college. Just wondering if there’s anyone else in a similar situation, where you kind of have to or want to be at another UC and are going to enroll at UCD even though you intend on transferring as soon as possible.</p>

<p>@dilapidated </p>

<p>none of the uc’s take senior transfers, if you stay in cc you never hit senior standing, but transferring as a senior is not possible</p>

<p>^^^ Thanks, I recently called the admissions office at UCSD and realized this myself. I guess the only other option would be to enroll at UCD, but not take the sufficient number of credits that would place me in senior standing. Or else the other option is to remain at community college for another year and try to apply again as a junior transfer, something I’m not sure I’m willing to do. Hmm, this is actually pretty disappointing and something that I’ll have to take into careful consideration until the SIR deadline in June. Thanks for the response.</p>

<p>There’s no point in going to Davis if you want to junior transfer to San Diego. First of all. It’s ten times harder. Secondly. You’d be wasting 25k.</p>

<h2>@dilapidatedmind Yes-delaying your transfer to a 4-year does suck, but if you really want to go to UCSD, then I think it’d be worth the wait especially since you want to stay closer to home at that.</h2>

<p>I printed out all documents for the Ramble. I noticed they will check your records for you and then fall back on a guarantor if you don’t meet requirements. Will they follow up with you on this? Or we have to follow up ourselves?</p>

<p>Also, how many of you think it’d be worth living in the dorms? I’m still considering dorming for the social aspect, since I don’t know anyone at UCD. But I prefer the living space of the Ramble so much more. Plus, I definitely plan on joining clubs and even a sorority and what not. Hmmm. Any advice?</p>

<p>Check out the Facebook Group: [Login</a> | Facebook](<a href=“UC Davis Transfer Class of 2013 Public Group | Facebook”>UC Davis Transfer Class of 2013 Public Group | Facebook)</p>

<p>There are a lot of people that are going to live in the Ramble looking for roommates. </p>

<p>I don’t think it will be hard to meet new people there. A lot of us are already planning a little get together prior to the start of the semester.</p>

<p>^ cool…besides, i’m putting on my preference card i’d like to live with other transfers/upperclassmen…
thanks =)</p>

<p>I did too, but I’m not sure if I want to live co-ed or not. Still shy lol. </p>

<p>And the thing with calling the financial aid office. I couldn’t get through, so I just changed it online. I hope it works out well.</p>

<p>Just registered for orientation on Monday, June 27 (group 5). Any other engineers gonna be in that group? I’ll probably be wearing [this</a> shirt](<a href=“http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#NoRaptors]this”>http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#NoRaptors); assuming I’m the only one to do so, say hi! And even if it’s not me, you get to meet strangers, so that’s cool.</p>

<p>I’m registered for the Wednesday session, but I may change it. Where do you see what group you’re in? o.o</p>

<p>[Right</a> here on the transfer orientation page](<a href=“http://orientation.ucdavis.edu/transfers/]Right”>http://orientation.ucdavis.edu/transfers/), but all they’ve done is assign each day a group number, so June 21 is group 1, June 22 is group 2, etc.</p>

<p>ooh i see. Thanks!</p>

<p>So I’m thinking Ramble would not be the place for me if I’m planning to study abroad in the spring. Oh well. Maybe next year?</p>