<p>Got in today, very excited. But in my financial award, I have student self help expectation with $3600. </p>
<p>My EFC is very low, why do I have student self help expectation. Is this a work study grant or am I supposed to cover it.</p>
<p>This is excluding loans.</p>
<p>That is money that UCD expects you to pay out of your own pocket. If your student self-help expectation was $3600, did you mention having any assets on your FAFSA? Even if your parents’ income was low, if you put that you had ANY assets on FAFSA, UCD will expect you to use those assets to help cover the costs.</p>
<p>But I dont have any work study in MyAwards in UC Davis portal. Did anyone see work study in their financial aid package in UC Davis?</p>
<p>I think its been mentioned on here before that they don’t give Work Study to Freshmen. The self-help money should come from savings, a summer job, a part-time job during school, birthday gifts - wherever you can find it. Also keep in mind that the cost of attendance is over-inflated a bit - you can economize on transportation and books and that will reduce the amount of money you might need to chip in.</p>
<p>Edited - I guess if you are just getting accepted, that you are a transfer, not a freshman. I would call the FA office and ask about the work study. I don’t know what their criteria is for offering it.</p>
<p>leo4557: work study is not part of the student self-help expectations, and I never said anything about work study in my response. If you did get work study, it would most likely be mentioned among the grants and loans offered to you.</p>
<p>Why would they not award me work study? I have been awarded work study at other universities I applied.</p>
<p>Will have to wait till Monday to call them, since they are closed now.</p>
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Your question has been answered by jbourne. Many other students with low EFC have not been awarded workstudy either.</p>
<p>I am a transfer student and not a freshmen. I want to see if any one got work study and if I can request work study.</p>
<p>I will call them on Monday.</p>
<p>Is the student self-help expectation just for one year? My EFC was zero, but my student self-help expectation came out to be $3,800. Why is that? I don’t have any assets too.</p>
<p>Really $3800 is not that much. Even if you don’t have any assets working the summer, working during the year part-time, birthday/holiday gifts, etc. can all be used to cover the cost. </p>
<p>My school expects $5000 contribution from a student. They expect you to do something to contribute to your education. It’s a little over $315/month for you. You could make that easily with a part time job during the year or work full time during the summer. It’s not an unreasonable expectation. Your parents aren’t the only ones who are supposed to contribute towards paying for your education.</p>
<p>It’s yearly I believe. 
A little motivation for low income students not to waste money. And you really can’t expect them to cover everything especially now when they have some money issues.
But hey, good news is that tuition won’t increase 2012-2013 year…at least that’s what they’ve decided for now.</p>