Grad student sibling's impact on undergrad's EFC

mom2collegekids
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:21:14 +0000

* The older student is pursuing a science PhD so many of her expenses will be covered, but we still plan to help her get a car, set up an apartment, pay for health and car insurance, etc.*

If your grad student child has her tuition paid for and a nice stipend, it would be very hard to indicate that you’re providing more than 50% of support.

I have a child who will be in grad school next year with a generous assistanceship, and there would be no way that we’d be able to indicate that we’re providing more than 50% of his support, even tho we pay for his car insurance, cell phone, healthcare, etc.