<p>my daughter got accepted to UCLA,computer engineering and she did apply for regents but didn’t get any merit based scholarship and we don’t qualify for fafsa. she is valedictorian and very high GPA and SAT scores as well as subject tests and mostly 4 and 5 on all AP tests. my question here is her classmate got this achievement and merit based scholarship of 9500 per year to UCLA and as far as we know, they’re financial need is not much different from ours… what is the criteria for giving out the achievement scholarship?</p>
<p>Your child is not a special snowflake. There are literally 10’s of thousand of the same at UCLA. </p>
<p>Contact the school’s financial aid counselors to go over your specific circumstance. Comparing financial aid info to a student’s parents is silly. You have no idea what they listed on their form that will change the calculus.</p>
<p>you should post your question in the Financial Aid forum. You will probably get more help there.</p>