<p>Dad does not pay Mom alimony, and he stopped paying child support to her when I moved in with my grandfather after freshman year.</p>
<p>One of my prospective colleges, Pomona, has set a deadline of January 1 to receive the Profile application for regular decision applicants. Since it’s a holiday I figured it would be good to submit the day before. Also Thumper, you are correct that my current issue is how my stepdad’s income will be treated. Prior to that I had established a likely EFC of $25K, around $20K of which came from his household. That was a financial stretch then and is an impossibility now.</p>
<p>Thanks for digging up my old thread, sybbie. I had perused over it once already, but I believe that even then I had been under the impression that colleges calculated each household’s EFC separately. I know Harvard does, and I have a bad habit of generalizing things.</p>
<p>I am becoming increasingly confused. Hopefully this is an effect of the late hour, but it might be good to seek professional advice for my situation, no?</p>