Cal Grant A

my3girls
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:58:13 +0000

Ok, this was bugging me so I did some digging at the calgrants.org site. They seem to have made a change since 06 and divided up the grants a little differently. What my D applied for would now be called a "competitive grant "(since she was a transfer from an out of state school to a CA school) and they say this about the competitive grants (they did not have this distinction on anything public in 06):

The California Student Aid Commission and its Grant Advisory Committee held extensive public meetings to formulate the selection criteria that would be used to select the 11,250 Competitive Cal Grant recipients for the 2006-07 award year. California statute directed that the Commission stress the selection of eligible applicants who find it difficult to pursue an education beyond high school.

The Commission received nearly 387,000 on-time applications for the 11,250 awards. Over 96,000 of these applicants demonstrated financial need for an award. To determine eligibility for an award, an applicant’s GPA and income were used in the Commission’s computation. However, these two areas were not the only criteria used for selection. In addition to the GPA and income, scoring criteria also included parents’ education levels, household status, the high school the applicant attended and the number of years since the applicant attended high school.

So it does appear that if you are applying to college directly from a CA high school or within one year, $ and gpa are the criteria. They are now calling these entitlement grants. If you aren’t, then the other stuff comes into play.

And yes, the amount would have been around $9500.