<p>SHIP is already included in the student budget, listed in the fees here: [Facts</a> at a glance - UC Berkeley](<a href=“By the numbers - University of California, Berkeley”>By the numbers - University of California, Berkeley) </p>
<p>I believe if you decline SHIP your total student budget just decreases, which would lessen grant money and/or loans or work-study depending on your own finaid package?</p>