UCI Scholarship Application for OOS student

devinl10
Tue, 07 Jan 2020 03:00:01 +0000

Hi,

I’m an OOS student applying to UCI among other UC’s. UCI is probably among my top 5 schools but is definitely out of my price range.

Right now I am debating if it is worth it to finish my UCI scholarship application. From what I’ve heard it’s very difficult for OOS students to get good merit based aid at the UC’s.
I definitely have stats that would warrant merit aid (35 ACT, 4.0 unweighted GPA), but if I am unlikely to get good aid directly from UCI then perhaps my time would be better spent working on external scholarships.

The 12 supps seem a little unreasonable, especially if getting aid would be a shot in the dark because I’m OOS. Any info about my chances and how much I could get would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!