Free Undergraduate Tuition at UC!?!?!?!

CarterECHS
Sun, 04 Oct 2015 23:41:10 +0000

Hello, I’m a High School Senior in California with a dying question to know something about my cousin, who I’m currently unable to contact. She enrolled in UC Davis Fall of 2009 and graduated Class of 2013, and throughout those 4 years I heard from my relatives that her tuition and other expenses (room & board, books) were paid for completely by grants (possibly scholarships) and no loans. Now I know that my financial aid options in California are the Pell Grants and California Dream Act, along with a Work-Study program and the recent Middle Class scholarship, all under FAFSA, but I feel my cousin’s case a bit incredulous when I hear countless tales of alumni undergraduates with a pile of debt to pay off from student loans, that she could go to college for free off only government money. So I ask, is it possible, under certain demographics and requirements, that the FAFSA is able to pay in full 4 year undergraduate studies in a UC (and I assume CSU)?