Adjustments to Your Offer

Your original financial aid awards may be adjusted for a number of reasons.

• As you, your department, the Graduate Fellowships Office or an outside agency report fellowships, fee remissions or other awards, your loan and/or work study offer will be reduced to make room for any new award. You may be required to repay a loan already disbursed if an additional resource results in an "overaward."
• You may be able to increase loan eligibility by documenting educationally related expenses higher than those in our standard budget. You may download a budget appeal form with instructions from the Forms page of this website.

If you see an adjustment and need more information, you should contact our office at fao_grad@berkeley.edu.