BC nd Financial Aid

My parents own a business too and I did a the NPC with exaggerated numbers because I’ve heard they add stuff back in. I used 70k as the income even its like 20k less. We also own stake in a business(small business owner is job) and rental property though it’s not much in equity considering it’s basically all of our assets and the rental breaks even(loss on paper). Even with all of those things to mess up the NPC, mine came out way cheaper than yours. I am still expecting the real FA package to be less generous because of all the things I’ve heard on CC, but the NPC came out to around 20k/year. It was similar to Georgetown and much more generous than Villanova(~30k/year).

I think BC is a generous school though I’ve heard home equity messes people up. Is $50k gross or net? I really can’t believe the EFC comes to 100% an annual salary at a school that meets need without some asset that has serious value.