<p>Historically, is there a trend that indicates which UC campus tends to be more generous with financial aid (scholarships\grants not loans)?</p>
<p>Just wondering, thanks (:</p>
<p>They all seem to be relatively identical in terms of financial aid. At least if you use the financial aid calculators on their respective websites anyway.</p>
<p>That’s a really good idea!
I’ve used the financial aid calculator on one of the UCs websites but it never occurred to me to try to do it for all the schools I applied to…</p>
<p>One of the main reasons I’m wondering about the financial aid thing is because I got an email from Cal that said something like “60% of Cal students graduate without debt” and they compared it to the national average for public 4-year universities which was only 43%</p>
<p>From what I hear UC Merced is fairly generous in terms of financial aid then again the Cost living there is dirt cheap apparently </p>
<p>I’ve used 4 of the aid estimators and UCB gave me the highest.</p>
<p>But I would check each campus’s scholarships and grants that are specifically available to their campus that you believe you may qualify for and do the math yourself.</p>
<p>Oh, it’s also worth noting that in past years on College Confidential, some transfer applicants have noted that the “lower-tier” UCs’ financial aid packages were often much more generous than the packages offered to them by UCLA or UC Berkeley. Some believe that these generous packages on the part of schools such as UC Merced, UC Santa Barbara, and so on were attempts to entice stronger students to go to their schools as opposed to Berkeley or UCLA.</p>
<p>If this is the case, I suspect that many of us will see more generous financial aid awards being offered to us by the schools we applied to that are generally considered to be less prestigious. </p>