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Originally Posted by momo83
hi..guys
today I was in community collage in Portland and I asked financial aid how much the grant they told me 5700 and they will take some money from this amount to pay classes but I remember my friends in California they take all the 5700 and don't pay anything for classes I remember there is bog waiver its pay everything for classes in California my question is any different between California and Oregon in financial aid?
thanks
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The $5700 is presumably federal Pell Grant. In any case, you can't simply compare OR/CA community colleges.
For one, CA has lower tuition/fees as a base - less than half the cost of OR. And CA has the BOG where OR has the "OOG" - however Oregon significantly underfunds the OOG, so only something like 40% of students get funded.
If you're just applying for financial aid now in OR, then you missed the cutoff by 2 months, so yes, the first $4000 or so of your Pell would go to paying tuition/fees unless you qualify for grants/scholarships provided by the institution itself.
CA funds its higher ed system (and its state grant programs) far more extravagantly than OR does. On the bright side, you'll save a bit of money on housing in most OR markets compared to the CA equivalent. Edit- Portland is about on par with Sac., but less than LA/SF/etc.
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