Which of the following gives the best OOS financial aid: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, or UCSB? Or are all of them basically the same?
Some brief stats: 2200 SAT, 4.60 weighted GPA, 4.0 unweighted GPA, ~$95,000 in family income per year with about ~$1,000 spending money right now and another kid in college.
Also if you know of any other California colleges with good math programs that would give better aid please let me know!
Thanks!
What are your in-state options? And define “best”- what can you contribute for the family portion-- it’s useless to apply to a place with the “best” aid if that leaves you a gap of 25K which you cannot pay. How old is the other kid in college, what is your EFC currently, and why California if you are out of state???
Ask this question in the UC forums - the participants there probably have the info you’re looking for. @ucbalumnus may also have an answer for you.
If you’re determined to go to school in California, and you want a strong math program, you may want to look at the private colleges that meet full need - CalTech, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, USC. If you can get your SAT score up a bit, that would help - these schools aren’t easy to get into!
My understanding is that OOS residents can expect to pay their FAFSA EFC plus a student contribution plus the $23,000 differential between in and out of state rates.
None of the California publics give much FA to OOS students. Like @thumper1 stated above, you will be expcected to pay the $23,000 OOS tuition cost along with your EFC at the minimum. Majority of OOS applicants are at full pay which is $55,000/year. If in need of FA, consider targeting California privates such as USD, Occidental, Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Claremont Colleges or the other schools mentioned above.
The UCs expect you and your family to pay…
EFC (which for you would be about $12k (2 in college) plus $23k per year…plus full loans and maybe W/S.
So, your family would be responsible for:
$35k per year plus full loans and likely work study.
It doesn’t sound like your family will pay that much since not only do they have another child in school, but their income won’t likely support paying that much.
The above is assuming that your family doesn’t have assets.
Do they give merit scholarships?
Some give merit aid…but you have listed UCLA and Cal which are extremely competitve schools for admissions…and two others that are also right up there.
And if you get merit aid, it will reduce your financial need.
You aren’t going to get free tuition, if that is what you are asking.
The UC’s have merit scholarships such as Regents. The amounts for Regents vary by campus, anywhere from $2500-$10,000. These are awarded to the top 1-2% of each class. Like @thumper1 poiinted out UCLA/UCB/UCSD and UCSB are all competitive, so you need stellar Stats for such an award. Run the Net Price Calculators for each school as an OOS applicant to see what you will ultimately pay.
yeah, as @Gumbymom said, UCB - for example, total is $32,168 for In-State:
http://admissions.berkeley.edu/costofattendance
for OOS, adding $23,000 more, total = $55K
It is not usual to get merit aid for an OOS applicant and sometimes we see a 2k per year award. UC are just not feasible except for high income oos’ers. They do not cover the 23k OOS supplement for anyone. Try the Claremont Colleges and Stanford.
The UCs are typically lousy with merit, especially lousy to OOS students.
And even if you got any merit, it would NOT get applied to the formula above. It wouldn’t reduce what you have to pay. It would reduce need-aid FIRST.
@tttttttttttttom Have you asked your parents how much they’ll pay for each child’s college? If not, do so. You need to know how much they’ll pay each year for YOU.
What is your M+CR score??