FAFSA estimates for ED financial aid

iggyb387
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:22:59 +0000

Well, both my parents incomes went up by a bit from the CSS estimates, but only by around 2k (total, not each). However, FAFSA doesn’t count home equity, so one would think that a 2k change in income wouldn’t make it so much higher than CSS.

Thing is, my parents haven’t filed yet and only used estimated values for income and taxes (for the FAFSA). Since Dartmouth gets the actual tax return (with slightly different numbers) anyway, would they use the FAFSA EFC if it’s bigger than their calculation, even when the FAFSA was done with possibly wrong numbers while their calculation will be done with the correct numbers?