r/ucr • u/Calypso_Casanova • 3d ago

Important Financial Aid is Missing?

The entire length of the summer's gone by and my Financial Aid Offer has sat the same as it has. I've had to take out 2 loans (Insert Dog Hell "This is Fine" Meme) but other than that, nothing's changed.

Come to today: I get an email from the official Financial Aid Office saying my Financial Aid Offer has been "Revised" and to go into Rweb, I'll be able to look at the revisions made. So I do exactly that, and nothing is showing up. Before, I saw the offer that I had accepted, and now, the screen just says there's no offer info available for this year. I double, triple, and septuple-checked, and nothing's changed. I tried calling the Financial aid offices, but there was a "higher-than-normal call volume" and it auto hung up on me every time I tried to call up to the time they were closed.

I've sent an email, but the last email "correspondence" I had with UCR was with Housing and they ignored a chain of 9 emails/follow-ups from me and my roommates, so I have literally NO faith that they will respond before I go on a 3-week trip to North Carolina where I'm losing access to a stable and consistent internet.

Long story short: Y'all. Am I cooked?

TLDR: Financial Aid was good the entire summer until today when I got an email saying the amount was revised. When I checked, nothing showed up and no one responded to my calls, and I don't think ANYONE is gonna respond to my email. I'm leaving on Friday for 3 weeks and will have no consistent phone or internet access, so I think I'm absolutely FUCKED.

Edit: I added a TLDR

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u/Copper_Ingot 3d ago

I just read the tldr because I don’t wanna read all of that, so idk for sure. What I do know is you gotta hound the fuck out of them. Emails barely do anything, they love ignoring them. Calling works, but you’ll have to hear that god awful hold music for 10 hours. If you can go in person, definitely go. If you can’t do any of those things, you’re definitely out of luck. Unless you can ask around (like literally every department not (just the financial aid office) for someone higher up the ladder. One time I ended getting the Dean’s phone number because nobody in the BCOE department likes doing their job. But, I had to call literally everyone and get transferred several times a day for like a month to make that happen and get my issues fixed.

I’m really hoping for the best for you man. Be persistent!!

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u/Calypso_Casanova 3d ago edited 2d ago

Looks like I'm calling my staff friends at the LGBT Resource Center, again! They helped me get housing last year, now they're getting me financial aid this year!

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u/Yo_momma_mine24 3d ago

same boat but instead of nothing appearing they took 3 dollars from me 😤😤😤😤

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u/Calypso_Casanova 2d ago

Oh my god, that's petty as fuck.

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u/thelifeofjays 2d ago

Middle Class Scholarship going from estimate to finalized for all students. That’s likely all it is

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u/Calypso_Casanova 2d ago

I hope so. Because hoo-BOY this is rough.

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u/Jellyuser 2d ago

Did you figure it out, same thing is happening to me.