Financial Aid Tips

shua
Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:07:38 +0000

So on the Berkeley financial aid website, they list the budget at around 26,000. Is this really what one year @ Cal costs?

This is what my fin aid looks like at the moment:

17,792 Federal Parent Loans PLUS1
3,500 Federal Subsidized Loan
1,600 Federal Perkins Loans
1,900 Work Study
1,594 Scholarship

Which ones do you think I should accept? I really don’t see how one year at Berkeley would cost me 25,000. Also, would it be smart to turn some of the Federal Parent loan to Work Study? I think that I’m going to accept the Subsidized Loan right now, but I am not sure about the other stuff since I wouldn’t want to accept more loans than I needed.

I am going to be living in a Clark Kerr Triple, roughly 12,000 a year, but I am trying to transfer to a Unit triple to make it cheaper.