Housing/Dorm Cost at UCLA

person415
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 06:46:52 +0000

So if you got the grant to purchase uship, if you opt out you will loose the grant. So it really makes no difference financially for you if you keep it or leave it. However, in my opinion the uship insurance is much better than medical. So if you have that grant and don’t plan on your financial situation changing, I would take this over medical. But of course look into this.

As far as if you would be officially obligated to cancel one of your insurances, I assume so. Plus there’s really no point in having both. But you can call ucla financial aid and ask.

Also like a previous person said, be careful of just living off campus, as financial aid gives you different amounts of aid depending on if you live on or off campus. If you google “financial aid calculator UCLA” you can find a quick calculator where you put your basic financial situation, and it gives a pretty good estimate of what UCLA would actually give you. At the very least it has an option to select your type of housing, and you can see how much more or less aid they would give you if you lived on or off campus.

You should look at where you declared you were going to live on your fafsa. If you put on the fafsa that you will be living at home, then you’re fine and will not get financial aid to live on campus anyway. If you decide you want to live on campus but did not declare it on fafsa, tell financial aid office ASAP.