Checkbook.org article does net price calculator experiments

ucbalumnus · September 24, 2013, 2:32am

These are the same article, but using different college examples by region:

Note that the cost of the community colleges appears to reflect the assumption of the student living on campus, as noted at [Consumers</a>’ Checkbook](<a href=“http://www.checkbook.org/tuitioncostnotes/]Consumers”>http://www.checkbook.org/tuitioncostnotes/) .

charlieschm · September 24, 2013, 7:32am

Thanks for posting.

That confirmed my own experience - Villanova offered the worst aid of all of the schools where my kids considered. According to those numbers, they don’t increase aid if a middle income family has a second kid in college at the same time.

GolfFather · September 24, 2013, 9:41am

Thanks for posting.

The results (for Profile D) match our experience exactly.

annoyingdad · September 24, 2013, 12:05pm

You should post this on the finaid forum too. Maybe the mods will choose to sticky it there.

arabrab · September 24, 2013, 12:41pm

Very helpful. I do wish they hadn’t run kinds with Harvard/Stanford level stats, however.

HImom · September 24, 2013, 3:19pm

It’s amazing to me that any merit aid is available to the family that has significant income and equity (the last example in the scenarios). Fascinating stuff. We didn’t apply for any FAid, so I have no personal knowledge–tried for FAid for private HS and were told we didn’t qualify then, so never bothered to check for college–fortunately salary had risen by then.

Checkbook.org article does net price calculator experiments

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