[Treebound]

"Dont forget those families need to be California citizens."

And that is as it should be.  The UC system was built to educate the sons and daughters of CA and we pay taxes to fund it.  I have no issue.  When I applied, we too were a lower middle class CA family.  I applied to Stanford and UC Berkeley and the Stanford package was much more generous than what Cal could offer - not that a better package from UCB would have changed my decision. 

I hope you are right about better Financial Aid for families with 2 kids in college, as I'll be writing my first freshman tuition check to Stanford soon on my son's behalf.....prices have gone up!

[Treebound]

"Dont forget those families need to be California citizens."

And that is as it should be.  The UC system was built to educate the sons and daughters of CA and we pay taxes to fund it.  I have no issue.  When I applied, we too were a lower middle class CA family.  I applied to Stanford and UC Berkeley and the Stanford package was much more generous than what Cal could offer - not that a better package from UCB would have changed my decision. 

I hope you are right about better Financial Aid for families with 2 kids in college, as I'll be writing my first freshman tuition check to Stanford soon on my son's behalf.....prices have gone up!