About 8,000 UC Berkeley students had their Middle Class Scholarship awards mistakenly reduced by the Financial Aid and Scholarships Office on Oct. 5. Students noticed charges of up to several hundred dollars on their CalCentral billing statements before awards were corrected on Oct. 7.
Students were first notified of an error in their Middle Class Scholarship, or MCS, in an email Oct. 6. Looking at CalCentral, students found new charges on their accounts correlating to award reductions.
According to campus spokesperson Adam Ratliff, the errors occurred when campus adjusted MCS awards to account for each student’s enrollment after the census date, when campus examines dropped or added classes to determine final enrollment levels…