financial aid

The UC Berkeley Financial Aid and Scholarships office cares tremendously about the financial and personal wellness of our students.

Community college was supposed to take two years for the average aspiring transfer student. That average wasn’t going to apply to me.

Financial aid helps build a diverse community of scholars from a wide range of economic backgrounds.

This experience really highlighted the bureaucracy of UC Berkeley and the importance of mental health for me. It almost feels like stress is a requirement.

I have gotten by trying to do things entirely on my own — with my lofty ambitions as my steed and my fatalistic need to succeed as my spurs, I’ve traveled pretty far.

Less than a year after starting her studies at UC Berkeley, Anh-Vy Phan has withdrawn from the school and now faces a $24,000 debt she cannot pay.

We looked at studies done by the federal government that showed that students who receive more aid for summer are more likely to take summer courses and graduate on time. Research surrounding summer aid was so compelling that it even prompted the Republican-majority Congress to extend federal aid to summer.

Goodbye July — we'll miss you! And hello August. We can't believe you'd really do this to us.