<p>For my Ucla fin aid award, I got 10k in university grants. But in the estimate it did not mention cal grants. So are they mutually exclusive? Or is the Cal grant included in that estimate. I asked a friend of mines who is a student there and she said they are exclusive, but I just want to make sure.</p>
<p>Help anyone??? Is Berkeley friendly with financial aid?</p>
<p>If you qualify for a Cal Grant, I think what they do is just subtract that amount from the University Grant (so if you had $10K in a Un Grant and you qualified for $2K in a Cal Grant, they change the Un Grant to $8K). We found that the Berkeley Financial Aid was similar to the UCLA financial aid with $1K more in work study.</p>
<p>Hope that helps</p>