<p>Who decides when they want official transcripts? It seems some never ask, some ask later, some ask after you send them an email about a benign issue, etc. So, who decides and when, is it a federal guideline, individual college district policy or the college itself, or the person having a bad day in the aid office, anybody know? Also, how can the amount of a Pell grant be different between 2 community colleges (everything else identical) in the same state for the same person, this is not a riddle. </p>
<p>I know it may come as a shock but, some people lie on their applications. I’d count on getting a transcript request from all the CSUs and UCs.<br>
Can’t help you on the Pell grant.</p>
<p>Well now; I am shocked as well being of little doctoral degree hanging about the walls, just a simple man who wonders how, such seemingly academic geniuses, can calculate a different amount of aid for a student with the same EFC in 2013, now living in a different county in California; and why they would ask for official transcripts three quarters of the way through a degree program when unofficial were sufficient thus far; what say you? Does further education, lead to an erosion of one’s rationalization or logic skills? </p>