For those of us that got our acceptance, does this mean there was no financial aid or scholarship? Or does this come out later?
I just received the National Green and Gold Scholarship. 1k a year. Not sure about what the other scholarships are.
I think it said that scholarships will be posted by April 1, but I’m not positive
Cal Poly is a California public State University. The California public universities are funded by the state of California and its taxpayers. California is strapped for cash, so its OOS students pay full fees. You’ve indicated, in previous posts, that you are from the state of Washington.
California State students pay in-state tuition and are typically funded by state grants.
California does not provide funding for OOS students.
They may have a few scholarships, but probably not significant enough to cover the $40K per year fees.
I don’t think your family will be getting much in student aid.
from @mom2collegekids in Oct 2016:
Nothing has changed since this post.
Our neighbor got 20k a year to UC San Diego and her friend got 19k to San Diego State (business) so it isn’t impossible for out of state students. And my daughter also got the 1k a year green and gold today. While I don’t expect the whole 40k per year, every bit helps and even the green and gold is nothing to sneeze at. Seeing her friends’ letters really made me sorry we didnt apply to more California schools, since their stats are much worse than my daughter’s.
UC San Diego is $58K per year for OOS students, so getting 20K per year still requires that your neighbor to step it up for $38K per year. That’s not including transportation costs. Southern California has horrible public transportation. Getting around in San Diego almost requires a car. (Especially near UCSD.) Rents are horrible, and UCSD has a housing crisis. SDSU is minimum $40K per year. Housing is impacted and expensive. The costs do add up.
Your daughter got $1K per year off of $40K per year? That $39K is a bargain for you?? Over $150K for her education? If you were planning on in-state tuition, that’s not going to happen.
She won’t get instate tuition because she is originally coming to California for *educational purposes *and California residency rules are strict.
I never said I expected in state tuition or residency. I was just hoping for a small merit based scholarship to take the edge off. State school here is 26k a year, so it still isn’t a bargain and will be over 100k.
Transportation is going to add up over that $150k. So that will change and increase your costs. Don’t forget that those costs don’t include your health insurance fees each year.
Cal Poly is in central California (farm country) so you either commute from SF or LA by train or by puddle jumper.
If costs don’t matter to you, then we Californians will gladly accept your “almost full fees”. Every bit helps our State.
^You can fly out of San Luis Obispo’s airport (SBP). It currently connects to SFO, LAX and to Phoenix. They are scheduled to add flights to Alaska in April.
It irks me, a CA parent who have been paying taxes, to see OOS students getting merit scholarships or financial aid need based. What about our CA kids?
@OrangeMom28 The financial need based aid OOS students receive they would receive anywhere – it’s federal aid - (Pell, etc). OOS students don’t qualify for Cal Grants.
@OrangeMom28 ^^OOS won’t get much in aid from the feds. Students get federal loans
(freshman $5500 per year, Sophomores get $6500, then Jr;s and Srs. get $7500 per year)
which are not anywhere near tuition and fees for most of the California publics.
Then, if they are really low-income, they get Pell ($5600) which never covers the CA tuition and fees.
The merit scholarships are “accept-deny”. The schools accept the students with very little aid and the parents have to cover the rest of the hefty fees; which many can’t do.
Getting a $1K scholarship is chump change when T&F are $55K or $40K per year.
The big money is in the form of Cal grants from our state, but the OOS can’t get Cal grants.