This discussion was created from comments split from: Attending two schools, Cal grant question.
If a specific school shows up on View My Award Detail, what does that mean if decisions haven’t come out yet?
Could someone please clarify what this poster is asking??!
My guess would be that the school listed on the CalGrant came from something the student did. Did you have to list schools anywhere for Cal Grant? Maybe they just took the first school on the list and attached it to your Cal Grant. In my state, the first state school listed on the FAFSA is the school that they list on the state grant award (you can change it later, but you do have to change it if you want it to go to a different school!). I don’t know how Cal Grant works.
Yes, that was it. The first school choice listed on the FAFSA school list comes up first as the school attending on Cal Grant. Has nothing to do with admittance, just a bad user interface. The status shown as APPROVED didn’t come from the school, it comes from FAFSA and has zero relationship to the school.