?? Scholarships are COMPLETELY USELESS at Cal?!

sunshinejf
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:02:54 +0000

I’m assuming that they give you aid to begin with because you NEED it, but when your need is fulfilled by outside scholarships, then they take your financial aid to give to someone else who needs it. Unless you’re talking about a merit based scholarship, which is different than just regular aid because you need to apply and prove you’re worthy of it in order to receive it. If you’re talking about Berkeley-given merit based aid, then that seems silly of them to take it away just because you have another merit based scholarship. But…if Cal is giving you need-based aid and you come in with a bunch of scholarship money…then technically you don’t NEED the aid anymore. (Even though expected contribution is way more than I think most people can afford…)