Filed FAFSA as independent.. EFC is almost 1/5 of my claimed income??

[cshell2]

@thumper1

@cshell2 when this student was a dependent student, maybe they qualified for the simplified needs test?

Simplified needs test just excludes student and parent assets not income. Auto Zero does, but if they qualified for Auto Zero the EFC would have been 0, not 1200.