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Episode 208: Financial Aid
Once again stepping out of the College of Engineering world we are looking towards Sproul Hall and Financial Aid. This week we have asked Joe Sell on to bring us some more insight to Financial Aid – you’ll hear about what to expect, how to get it and what to do if something is wrong.
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Episode transcript
LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. My name is Laura Vogt, I’m the Communications and Events manager for Engineering Student Services and your podcast host! This week we have Joe Sell, A Special Projects Coordinator from the Financial Aid & Scholarships Office. Hi Joe, welcome to the podcast.
JOE SELL: Hi Laura, thanks.
LV: Can you please tell us a little about yourself and what services you and your office provide for students at UC Berkeley.
JS: So again my name is Joe Sell, I’m a special projects coordinator in the Financial Aid & Scholarships Office. I’ve worked at Berkeley for about three years now, just over three years. So I work in the counseling unit of the Financial Aid Office. So we not only provide you know in person, individual advising and counseling, but we also work with reviewing all student documents, student appeals. We do outreach different departments. We do satellite office hours in different departments, as well, dispersing, packaging financial aid – Basically a little bit everything.
LV: And so what is the best way for a student if they need to speak with a financial aid counselor?
JS: So the best way in my opinion is just in person advising. So students can come to Cal Student Central, which is 120 Sproul. They’re open from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. So students can just come check in at Cal Student Central, they can meet with an adviser there. So the Cal Student Central advisors, they work not only with financial aid but they also work with the Office of the Registrar, with billing of payment services, so they really are a wealth of knowledge in all sorts of different areas. So it’s a good place to kind of get the first general questions are answered. At that point if it’s something that needs a little more of an in-depth conversation they can escalate the student to meet with a financial aid counselor on the second floor of Sproul. At that point we can then really kind of dig deep and have more of an in-depth conversation and see if we can answer
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Once again stepping out of the College of Engineering world we are looking towards Sproul Hall and Financial Aid. This week we have asked Joe Sell on to bring us some more insight to Financial Aid – you’ll hear about what to expect, how to get it and what to do if something is wrong.
Important links:
Episode transcript
LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. My name is Laura Vogt, I’m the Communications and Events manager for Engineering Student Services and your podcast host! This week we have Joe Sell, A Special Projects Coordinator from the Financial Aid & Scholarships Office. Hi Joe, welcome to the podcast.
JOE SELL: Hi Laura, thanks.
LV: Can you please tell us a little about yourself and what services you and your office provide for students at UC Berkeley.
JS: So again my name is Joe Sell, I’m a special projects coordinator in the Financial Aid & Scholarships Office. I’ve worked at Berkeley for about three years now, just over three years. So I work in the counseling unit of the Financial Aid Office. So we not only provide you know in person, individual advising and counseling, but we also work with reviewing all student documents, student appeals. We do outreach different departments. We do satellite office hours in different departments, as well, dispersing, packaging financial aid – Basically a little bit everything.
LV: And so what is the best way for a student if they need to speak with a financial aid counselor?
JS: So the best way in my opinion is just in person advising. So students can come to Cal Student Central, which is 120 Sproul. They’re open from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. So students can just come check in at Cal Student Central, they can meet with an adviser there. So the Cal Student Central advisors, they work not only with financial aid but they also work with the Office of the Registrar, with billing of payment services, so they really are a wealth of knowledge in all sorts of different areas. So it’s a good place to kind of get the first general questions are answered. At that point if it’s something that needs a little more of an in-depth conversation they can escalate the student to meet with a financial aid counselor on the second floor of Sproul. At that point we can then really kind of dig deep and have more of an in-depth conversation and see if we can answer