<p>I'm confused... why am I paying for this when I have like 20k financial aid? can anyone enlighten me?</p>
<p>yeah you gotta pay it by yourself, Sucks huh? I think I might get it out of the fin aid later cause its money I badly need for other stuff</p>
<p>I kinda dont get it though… what is it for? ahaha</p>
<p>itsa deposit. You flake out on them they still get to make money off of you</p>
<p>It’s an excuse for UCLA to get your money earlier and start getting interest on it.</p>
<p>I mean - look at what we’ve already “paid for”
- Housing deposit
- Housing “spot save”
- Housing application fee
- more housing deposits over summer. </p>
<p>I told my mom tonight I needed to throw a grand on there tonight and she was *<strong><em>ed as *</em></strong>, i mean, summer just started</p>
<p>Did it say you were ineligible to pay the initial payment through the financial aid payment plan (plan G I think it was called) on the UCLA housing page. This is the one where you only need to pay like $400 or something and pay the rest once your aid comes. For me, it said I was ineligible so I had to choose the quarterly plan, but I applied for FAFSA and expected to pay for the calculated cost through the aid money. Instead I have to come up with 2 grand by next week and another thousand by mid-July.</p>
<p>Such crap huh? And we don’t even get that money back?</p>
<p>Why would you get the money back when you owe them another $10k+?</p>
<p>I think I’m eligible to pay the initial payment through the financial aid payment plan. But I selected the quarterly plan somehow… What should I do now, keep paying the fees? But I have 20k financial aid THO!</p>
<p>nope even if you have the financial aid thing you still pay the deposit out of pocket. You dont get your aid till later. Change to the financial aid plan so you can pay after your disbursements</p>
<p>No offense to you people on financial aid, but boo-effin-hoo, no one feels bad for you. Try actually having to pay every last dollar out of pocket. I swear you people are the biggest whiners. “WAAAH where’s my financial aid?! I need my money now!!”. Oh yeah, and screw you for draining money out of the school too.</p>
<p>^ OR paying out-of-state.</p>
<p>I mean, damn.</p>
<p>@2424rd you are obviously very ignorant about just how hard it is to come up with the money for some families. I know that for my family even getting the $400 together for the financial aid deposit is difficult. Obviously there’s a reason why people are getting financial aid in the first place. Oh and for the record, most people getting financial aid are getting it through the government (pell and cal grants), not through the school and those that are (mainly Regent’s scholars and athletes) are some of the schools most valuable “assets”. By no means are people on financial aid “draining money from the school”.</p>
<p>sorry we aint rich like you.</p>
<p>how you change it? sorry for being a noob</p>
<p>you go to your housing app and update it I think?</p>
<p>@IMShynZ: Honestly, I think you are going to have to keep paying the fees. There should only be two if you did the quarterly plan, or at least that’s how it is for me. It said something about if you are unable to pay the initial fees you can arrange an alternate payment plan, but it said it had to be arranged well in advance with the fin. aid office, so it sounds like it may be too late, but send them an email anyways. It wouldn’t let me change to fin. aid plan so I’m just going to pay through the quarterly plan out of my pocket until school starts.</p>
<p>But we are getting our money back once school starts right?</p>
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<p>repost .</p>
<p>can someone explain how we know how much we still have to pay? i went to the “view my housing account” link and im utterly confused…</p>