emiko said:
If I call the admission offices, I don't know where to start. Do I have to say I'm living illegally? or undocumented or what?? im scared...
So if anyone have information about UCB, UCSC, UCLA, Dominican University, USF, and CCSF (Those are schools I applied) Plz tell me if I need to fill out FAFSA and send it directly to the university or what I have to do.
I am so worried about this. The FAFSA deadline is coming and I still have no idea what I should do
(T_T)
You don't have to fill out a FAFSA form because you are inelegible to receive any federal or state aid. Once you are accepted to one of the UCs you will be qualified in the system to pay your tuition as a "out of state student" what this means is that you will pay high tuition fees just like an international student.
You won't qualify to pay california resident tuition since you can not establish state residency without having legal immigration status in the country.
There is no point in filling out a FAFSA. There is no score to calculate because the score is only to be use to qualify you for Federal money, State money, Grants, and federal loans....
I have worked for many years in a college admissions and I have dealed with this many times. Undocumented students applied to the college, got admited, and they paid non-resident tuition.
HOWEVER, IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, and you have graduated from a CA high school, and have attended a california High school for at least 3 years. You are elegible for the the AB-540 which allows you to paid "california resident tuition fees" in most community colleges and state universities like SFSU and others. So insteed of paying $198 per unit as a non-state-resident you will paid $27 per unit as every regular californian. The only disadvantage is that you are still inelegible to federal and state aid.
UNFORTUNATLY, AB-540 does not apply to UC's or private schools.
Check this web sites for the AB-540
http://www.maldef.org/ab540/ab540.cfm
IF AFTER ALL THIS you still want to try to fill out a FAFSA go ahead an call them directly;
Federal Student Aid Information Center
1-800-4-FED-AID (1-800-433-3243)
and just explain them your situation.... tell them that you are undocumented, and that you have applied to some schools, and that you were woundering if you have to fill out a FAFSA form.
Also check this elegibility requirements to fill out a fafsa:
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/faq003.htm
If I would be you I would call them and really find out directly from them, or from the FinAid Office. That way you will not regreat not calling to find out before the deadline....
**There is no reason to be scare...(I know how scary could be...) BUT think in this.... they are not INS... they don't know who you are.... they don't care if you are legal or not in the U.S.....they just provide info....