UCSC Financial Aid - Your Online Aid Offer

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Site Last Updated: November 4, 2009

Your Online Aid Offer

Students Admitted for Fall
If all application materials including items on your "To Do List" are received by mid-April, every effort is made to post Official Aid Offers on MyUCSC by the deadline to accept your offer of admission for fall quarter:

May 1 for first year students, and
June 1 for transfer students.

Current Students
Financial aid offers for current UCSC students will be posted on MyUCSC by the end of August. You will be notified via email when your offer is ready to review.

viewing and accepting or declining your aid offer

1	Log on to my.ucsc.edu
2	Click on "My Student Center" in the center of the page
3	In the Finances section, click on "View My Financial Aid"
4	Select the Aid Year
5	Review your awards then click "Accept/Decline Awards"
6	Read the information on the links for each award to decide whether you wish to accept or decline the offered awards
7	Report all other aid you are receiving including private scholarships by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page titled "Report Other Aid". Only report aid that is not listed on your aid offer.
8	Grant Permission for your aid to pay all UC Santa Cruz charges including miscellaneous charges like health insurance and lab fees. To do this, return to My Student Center. From the "more links" menu in the Finances section, go to “View Student Permissions” to read about and to grant your permission.
9	Read Important Next Steps to ensure you receive the aid you have accepted.

E-mail communications

E-mail is the primary means of communication used by the Financial Aid Office. To ensure our emails are delivered directly to your in box (and not your spam folder), be sure to add the e-mail address fin-aid-do-not-reply@ucsc.edu to your address book or contact list. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) may have a spam filter that blocks emails from the UCSC Financial Aid Office.

To update your e-mail address(es):

Log on to my.ucsc.edu
Click on "My Student Center"; You will find your addresses in the Personal Information section at the bottom center of the page.
Click on the addresses you wish to edit

You will be notified via email whenever a new or revised Financial Aid Offer is ready for you to review.

Important Next Steps

If you are receiving an aid offer for the first time for a new academic year, please read Important Next Steps You Must Take to Receive Your Financial Aid.

parent loans

If your offer includes a parent loan and your parent would like to apply for a Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS Loan), your parent must complete and submit a separate application form available from this link.