<p>My kids aren’t off to college yet, but I was playing around with numbers to see what, if anything, we might get in the way of FA. I also had a huge difference between the CB calculator and the FAFSA. The only difference I could tell was that I don’t recall putting in the amount of retirement contributions on the CB form and I did do that on the FAFSA.</p>
<p>From what I’ve read on this board, assuming those marginal dollars are assessed as 47% to college expenses, that would about make up the difference between the two calculators.</p>