Dissapointing financial aid package - help!

jerzgrlmom
Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:13:17 +0000

Our Brown EFC was more than twice our FAFSA EFC. But it was about what we expected since Brown uses the PROFILE - so it takes home equity and other things into consideration that FAFSA doesn’t care about. I had warned my DH beforehand because he didn’t realize there was a difference. OTOH, Brown met 100% need whereas many of the FAFSA schools didn’t. ALL schools offered my son (& my DD) fed loans and work study before any grants so we expected that.