?? Scholarships are COMPLETELY USELESS at Cal?!

2damax
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:04:22 +0000

From the finaid website:

“If you receive outside scholarships, grants, or any other type of award, the rest of your awards will need to be adjusted.”

link: [UC Berkeley Financial Aid and Scholarships Office: Undergraduates » Adjustments to Your Offer](http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/undergraduates/adjustments.htm)

What kind of bulls@@t is this? So what they are saying is… if they gave me $10,000 in aid this year… and I got a $10,000 scholarship from outside, then my aid will DECREASE to $0, effectively cancelling any reward that I could get from my scholarship?

Or is there a certain % that Berkeley will suck up, like they will still give me like $5,000 in aid?

And what about for kids that did not receive any aid to start with?

Can someone here please answer these questions… thank you.