<p>I checked myfindaid and it clearly stated last night that I had a confirmed $11,600 UG Scholarship. I checked today, and its GONE. My gift aid is now 0. ***???? how can they just take away a CONFIRMED scholarship for no reason?????? there's no way I can do this without that money, does anybody know what could be going on?</p>
<p>If you haven’t already, call the fin aid office ASAP link here [UC</a> Berkeley Financial Aid and Scholarships Office Contact Us](<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/home/contact_us.htm]UC”>http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/home/contact_us.htm). They should immediately be able to resolve the scholarship issue for you.</p>
<p>Thanks, but I already tried that and I was on hold for 20 minutes and hung up. I sent an email. Is it maybe that they removed it and will replace it with specific named scholarships? (the page says something confusing like that…) I mean I took a screenshot of myfinaid last night and it clearly says the scholarship is confirmed, so they can’t just take it away right?</p>
<p>maybe the calgrants are coming in and they are swapping out the scholarships. it should be around that time? good luck, i think it will work out if you are a california resident and make less than 80 or 140k per year as income.</p>
<p>did they get back to you? Are they still releasing financial aid info?</p>
<p>I just checked mine and I’m disappointed by the smaller amount of gift aid…where’s my usual Pell Grant? Plus I’m going abroad next semester and there’s no indication that they realize my budget for Fall semester should be higher than usual. Uggghhhhh.</p>
<p>Maybe this is happening:
[UC</a> Berkeley Financial Aid Office: Undergraduates Types of Aid Scholarships Berkeley Undergraduate Scholarship](<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/undergraduates/types_berkunderscholarship.htm]UC”>http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/undergraduates/types_berkunderscholarship.htm)</p>
<p>Btw, can we use the UG scholarship to pay for housing? Or, is it like the Cal Grant where it goes straight to the school to pay our tuition and we don’t get any money at all. If that’s so, why do I have an UG scholarship that’s more than the tuition? Surely we can use the rest of the UG scholarship to pay for housing, books, etc. right?</p>
<p>@ayymeer</p>
<p>The way your financial aid package works is that the financial aid office takes all of the money that you’re supposed to receive (grants, scholarships, loans) and automatically applies it anything that’s been charged onto your CARS account (tuition, housing, miscellaneous fees). If you end up with a negative balance (i.e. you receive more money than your total amount of fees), you get a refund check/direct deposit into your EFT account for the remaining amount of money.</p>