Appealing for Financial Aid

enigmaticescape
Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:41:19 +0000

My FAFSA EFC is about 14,000, and my parent’s combined income is ~125,000, and I have 2 siblings in college. However, Brown calculated my parent’s EFC to be 50,000 (6K in scholarship and 7K in workstudy/loans), which is ridiculous and I’m not really sure where they got that number. I also plugged my parent’s numbers into the Brown Collegeboard Calculator and it estimated that I would get 30,000 in aid.

My parents are only paying at most 15,000, and I think it would be tough for me to solicit 35K in private loans a year… I would really love to attend Brown, but it doesn’t look financially sound. I was wondering what the best way was to do this; I plan to call their aid office next week, but I hear they don’t match other schools.