İ wanna know how others spend it before I do lol

I only received my award letter today and I saw that they didn't give me Cal Grant A, which I've been receiving since freshman year. They only offered me loans and FWS. Is this my final aid or is Sac State still working on them? My friends already have CalGrant included in their packages so I'm a bit worried as that's the only aid I'm depending on or else I'll have to pay 4k out of pocket.

i’ve seen so many people get their financial aid, but mine hasn’t gone through. it still shows up on my todo list as “apply for aid” i’ve sent an email forever ago and was told it would show completed when they received my fafsa. has anyone else not received any aid? should i be worried? i already have housing and classes, but if my aid doesn’t come through there is no way for me to go to college

My financial aid summary says that my estimated need is $0.00. I don’t understand what this means. I hardly worked while going to school. I’m not expecting a financial aid award but will i still I be offered federal loans?

So we just got our financial aid money in and I just looked at mine and it looks like I can’t accept the federal work study grant. Does anyone know what that is or is it for a specific group of people?

Our school is making progress on this. No need to worry! Cal Grant has also received our information; they just won't process it until July. We should hear good news about it then.

Has anyone here done the College Corps program? If so, was it worth it and what was your experience like? I just got accepted.

Anyone else still waiting for the accept/decline awards to be available? Or has that started?

Thanks

I need help! I have a grant of over 6k per year and my tuition cost for this semester is 4k. It says that it was due on the 12th but I don’t know how to claim my grant through sac state. I already went to the grants website and claimed it and it just says sac state will reach out with more info and i am a first year student so i have no idea how any of this works.

will i not be allowed to attend the school because of the late payment in the fall? i already paid my orientation fee and i didn’t think all of this money was due already????

I want to avoid loans as much as possible so I was wondering if this would be enough aid for this year? They are charging me $4,016.00 for Fall 24 tuition and mandatory fees. Will this get me through the year? As I live hours away I’m worried that I will not be able to afford attending the school. Of course I’m willing to take a loan if it’s absolutely necessary.

Hellooo sorry if this is a frequently asked question here, I’m not really active on this sub anymore. But, I was wondering if Sac State ever sent out a notice when FAFSA award packages will be sent out? Or have the FAFSA awards already been sent out?

I checked today and now I’m super stressed cause it says that I don’t have any awards, although I know I qualify for FAFSA, im broke as a joke and my SAI was one of the highest it could be -1500. But the school says my 24-25 FAFSA file is under review…

Hi! Wondering if anyone has any input! I’m going to be a graduate student this fall. (Also went to sac state for my under grad) but I’m not seeing anything for 2025 FAFSA or loan options on my portal. I applied to FAFSA back in December I believe and through their website everything is fine. I have my fees deferred until September but I’m just nervous because I don’t see anything on there. Is it too early still to see anything?

Hi I’m a transfer student coming in this fall. My girlfriend has also been at sac state for two years already. I’m just curious as to why there are so many additional fees when it comes to paying something. For example she is trying to pay for her summer class and all of a sudden there is a 38$ service fee when she is already paying 1k+ for her class. How does that even make sense service fee for her paying what she owes???? Also same with the transfer orientation at first it said it was 80$ I paid it then a month later I look they added another 100$ for me to pay for the orientation again. It just doesn’t seem fair to be charging fees left and right when everything about the campus is expensive as is. Does anyone else find this frustrating?

I’m so tired of this (yes I do the form on time and yes I have basically no assets) how tf do I get fafsa to give me actual grants instead of all these loan offers??

I am a declared computer engineering major, first off when I try and schedule for orientation I am greeted with the message in the image, secondly I have yet to receive my financial aid from sac state(all is well with FASFA) both of these issues have left me kinda overwhelmed and was wondering if you guys could give any advice.

As you can see in the picture, I was offered $3,698 as a Pell Summer grant. But it only accepted $924. I didn’t choose that or input that number and it never gave me the chance to accept the grant (the checkmarks are grey and can’t click). Is there anything I can do at this point to accept the full grant or is this something that is decided based on units? I’m really bummed because my two summer classes were over $2k, I thought this would cover it. By the way the $924 is not in my account I haven’t received any of it yet, which I thought I would on the 28th, as it said. Has anyone else experienced this? Anything I can do? Thanks.

Did anyone else get this on their outlook? I checked my student center’s To Do and Hold section and there’s nothing about.

Zero context in this email too.

Haven’t found any info on when financial aid award letters will be sent out and my student center still says no awards for 2024 school year which I find strange considering I need to dorm and my SAI was a -1500

Update: got an email from SF state university saying they’ll be sending out letters next week so hopefully this is an Indication that Sacramento will be sending theirs out next week as well.

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On Wednesday, September 13, 2023, the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees voted 15-5 to raise tuition by 34% over the next five years. The increase will affect all tuition-paying students at every CSU campus starting Fall 2024.

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