3rd party scholarships ... realistic?

HankCT
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 15:45:35 +0000

@thumper1 My EFC implies that I have 65K per year to give for college. I don’t. Not even close. Not even mathematically possible. I am not sure how it’s derived, but although we have no 529, light savings, the number calculated seems to assume we have a bunch of both. I don’t want to dwell on that too much, what’s the point now?

I’m not sure what your full need for all refers to. Our EFC is higher than full tuition, so we don’t get any need based aid from anyone. So I am not sure what you are referring to.

I thought you were the parent. Your student is applying to colleges…not you.

I’ll ignore the snark/venom, but I am sure you well know that it’s a team effort, and I just used first person as a figure of speech. My daughter is 17, looked to us for guidance. We’re the ones footing most of the bill, so my insinuation was that I wish we had encouraged her to consider more of a range of schools in terms of merit options. Instead she essentially picked 9 schools that were all very similar in rank, and apparently what they will give in aid. WE are all learning here, first go round.