How do I Read My Davis Financial Aid Package?

oaklandmom
Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:57:41 +0000

I’m glad I was helpful. I can’t speak to the estimate’s accuracy for UCD. I know for my son who is in school in Pasadena, he usually doesn’t spend as much as the school estimates. (But he doesn’t get a refund check - but he has finished each year with money in the bank.) He buys few text books instead finds them on-line(bit torrent?) and he’s not a big shopper and finds all the free food he can, though I don’t know if there are free food possibilities at UCD.

As for California residency, I don’t think being a student in CA you’d get residency. Unless you’re financially independent from your parents, you’ll still be considered out of state (unless of course, your parents move to CA and become residents). Here’s a link from the UCD website regarding residency [UC Davis General Catalog | Residence for Tuition Information](Tuition & Residence)

Aphrodite99, I lived in Oakland for years(Maxwell Park), but when my son went to college I decided to move to a small down, so I live near Davis. My son’s in school in southern California.