<p>So... if there's no cal grant how are students like me going to afford school without huge loans = ( ? And with UC budget cuts I doubt they are going to give us more in the UCSD grant to offset the cal grant. I really hope they reconsider this. Our generations getting screwed over all the time.</p>
<p>The best option is scholarships…</p>
<p>yeah your actually right about that…</p>
<p>I’m really worried about the budget cuts as well. I don’t want to take out loans but I think I’ll have to. And scholarships aren’t that easy to get. Well, at least for me because I don’t have a lot of time to spend on essays. I haven’t even won any $500 scholarships. The next few years are gonna be tough.</p>
<p>I really want to move out of Cali after I graduate from college. Too expensive to live here. :/</p>
<p>If we really don’t get Cal Grants with the budget cuts and all, then are we allowed take back our SIR? </p>
<p>If I don’t get enough aid, I really don’t mind going to a JC for some years and transferring.</p>
<p>hmm, good question about taking back the sir’s, but i’m betting that if they let you, you wouldn’t be able to get your $100 deposit back. ><"</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m pretty sure the $100 is nonrefundable. -__- That really sucks. Well, if Cal Grants are canceled this year, then I’m definitely going to CC. I don’t want to be in a lot of debt when I’m out of college.</p>
<p>I have a question for you guys:</p>
<p>“Students who are currently receiving Cal Grants would continue to have their awards renewed as long as they are eligible. However, all new awards for the 2009-10 year, approximately 116,200 new awards, would be cancelled.”</p>
<p>I am currently receiving Cal Grants at a CC, does anyone know if this means that I will be able to “renew” my grant award next year? Or since I’m transferring, does that mean I have to reapply and thus losing the grants.</p>
<p>^ Bump on that question. I recieved Cal Grant B this year from CC, I wonder if that means I am a ‘new’ or ‘renew’ student when I transfer. According to UCSD, I qualify for Cal Grant A for next year…</p>
<p>i was just wondering… when do they vote if they’ll pass this…</p>
<p>I don’t think they’ll cancel it for two reasons,</p>
<p>1.) The governor may be using the “Cal Grant program as a bargaining chip to get the Democratic-controlled Legislature to make other concessions”. Though they claim that they’re not using the cut as a chip, but I doubt they would admit to that anyways.</p>
<p>2.) Axing this program will screw over 300,000+ students for college grants. This will definitely have effects showing up by the time our college generation is employed.</p>
<p>For those of you who are 18, and hopefully registered to vote; anyone willing to share where they think the cuts should come from?</p>
<p>This is really bad, education is the thing they SHOULD not be taking away. In order to fix mistakes of the past, we must make sacrifices, this means, more funding into education, not GM. We NEED education to increase, by taking away cal grants, it is removing the first generation, and other generation students from becoming successful! </p>
<p>Education is crucial to competing with other countries such as Japan and China, where their education is becoming more and more superior than the “prized” public school system america had.</p>
<p>Now that the government is axing grants, it just makes me sad! I need the cal grant too… And scholarships are harder than ever to get nowadays.</p>
<p>Read today that cutting the grants would only eliminate .7 of one percent of the budget shortfall. Although I’m still very scared, this could just be a scare tactic by the governor trying to strong arm the dems.</p>