Just got my financial aid offer

cmccl91
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:00:34 +0000

You either get the university grant (which is blue & gold) or you get the cal grant. If you do qualify for the cal grant, they will replace the university grant with the cal grant later on. I will be getting cal grant B but right now my award still says university grant. (It takes a little time for them to process the information I’m guessing.)

Also I want to correct something that epicremy said.

Also when filing income taxes you don’t have to put down the 766$'s because it was a grant.



That’s technically not true. You have to report it as part of your income for your income tax and on the FAFSA, but for the FAFSA under a different section you report the income as earnings from need based programs.

This is why work study is good since the extra income doesn’t affect the amount of financial aid you can earn, but you are still required to report it.