I got accepted into UC Berkeley and UCLA as a transfer student and the cost of attending will be one of my deciding factors. If I go to Berkeley I will live either on or off campus. If I go to UCLA I can live with relatives who live 30 minutes away. I know that living with relatives will affect financial aid. I am wondering what other people’s financial aid is living with relatives and what they actually end up paying each year. My current financial aid package estimates me paying around 10k a year to go to either school, but this is assuming I live on campus. I am also wondering how accurate that 10k estimate is. I went to UCSC for 1 quarter straight out of high school and also received the same 10k a year estimate for living on campus, but it ended up being 5k a year if I stayed the whole year.
These may help you estimate the effect of changing between living on campus versus off campus versus with relatives on financial aid:
https://saservices.berkeley.edu/calculator/
https://app.financialaid.ucla.edu/FASEstimator/
Of course, actual costs for living off campus or living with relatives can vary substantially from one student to another.
Im not sure what your question is. Is what you’re asking is if the 10K estimate correct? I’m not sure why that would matter. Whatever you got is whatever you got. If you want to be more frugal than average, that’s great.
If you live with relatives your need will be different so your aid could be less. Contact the school and ask how your package would change.