Early Decision/Financial aid question

[ucbalumnus]

@mom2collegekids

Self-employed people generally take business deductions, like cell phones, gasoline, car leases, depreciation, and others stuff, that schools will add back in. So one parent may be deducting $10k-50k or more that CSS schools will add back in…so a FAFSA income may be $80k, but CSS May consider the income as $125k or more.

Someone in this situation may want to run the college NPC twice to get a range of possible net prices for the college: one run with income as normal, and another run with business deductions added back to income.