Did Emory Revamp their FA program? Or is the NPC effed up or misleading?

RamenUniversity
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 01:28:32 +0000

So, for a period of time ( a few days ) Emory’s NPC calculator (specifically Emory’s!) on collegeboard was unavailable due to maintenance.

I recently put my parent’s financial information in, and the FA package was absolutely OUTSTANDING; as in, better than the NPC calculations from Vanderbilt, Columbia, Penn, NU, Rice, ect which are known for having better FA packages than Emory for middle income families (70k-110k). It’s even cheaper than UT Austin and Texas A&M!

Keep in mind, I tried this calculator LAST MONTH and I got a net cost/EFC of about 28k/year. I put the SAME EXACT information today after the maintenance and now my net cost/EFC is only $18,539. Even if the NPC was inaccurate and 5k was added to the net cost, it would still be cheaper than any other school I am applying to (Even UT!!!).

Even though Emory’s endowment is huge for a school of it’s size, I saw a lot of the thread on this forum about the mediocre FA packages that Emory often provides. Supposedly a lot of upper-middle income people are screwed in the process. Did anything change? I suspect the NPC might be bugged… Are they trying to improve their yield or something? Seriously, if Emory’s FA package is this good it’s yield will skyrocket.