How much aid can I get realistically?

mom2collegekids
Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:12:11 +0000

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Net price calculators are wildly variable, like I said. Harvard’s NPC, on their site and not through collegeboard, tells me 30k EFC, Stanford’s tells me 40k, Columbia’s, through the collgeboard NPC, tells me 50k. Since they’re very comparable schools in general they should probably be giving me similar amounts but they’re not and that’s worrying.










H and S give super-aid, so their aid will be more generous than most schools. Columbia’s results are probably what most full-need CSS schools would indicate.

For two kids at a UC, your parents would pay $60k total. If that is fine with them, then a UC safety will be your safety. If your dad says that he can’t pay $60k per year for two kids, then you need other safeties.

I don’t fault the dad for not saving the SS money for college. The purpose of the money is for living expenses. It doesn’t sound like the dad will leave his kids “high and dry” so in the end, if he spend $100k for each child’s college education, that will be more or about equal to what he got from SS for those kids.