Financial Aid Tips

somemom
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:30:22 +0000

You can easily spend $1000 a year on books, if you need big new fancy ones- some times you can find a great cheap book on Amazon, sometimes they will be almost $200 for only one book.

After room & board & tuition & health insurance & books, you have travel too & from Berkeley and you have living expenses whilst you are there- most people seem to figure a couple of hundred a month for just living.

Your loans should be given out each semester, you could take the higher amount and see how you do first term, then reduce the second term loans if you can before they are administered.