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The Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship's mission is to identify available resources, determine students' eligibility for those resources, and make those resources available to students in an accurate, efficient and timely manner thus ensuring that all students who are eligible to attend the University, have the financial resources to do so.
The State of California requires that you be told the following: Students should consider exhausting federal student loan eligibility before contemplating the use of private student loans. More
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How Do I...
- Apply/Renew my FAFSA
- Apply for summer at UC Merced
- Complete the Verification Process
- Request a tax return transcript
- Change my housing status
- Qualify for the California Dream Act
- Apply for a Plus loan
- Apply for an outside/private loan
- Apply/renew my Cal Grant award
- Meet SAP Standards for financial aid
- Get Direct loan counseling
- Sign a master promissory note
Important Dates & Deadlines
March 7th
Award notifications have been sent out for New Fall 2013/Spring 2014 academic year
March 20th
First day to submit the Financial Aid Summer Session Application
Week of April 8th
Award notifications will be sent out as early as April 8 for Continuing UC Merced students for the Fall 2013/Spring 2014 academic year






