How to get more money?

hsmomstef
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:05:56 +0000

I think you have a couple of factors that may be working against you in this case. First – your FAFSA EFC doesn’t mean much if the school requires a Profile (which Rochester does, as you mentioned). What was your EFC based on the IM method? Since it calculates in many more factors, it is often much higher. Second – schools do not all take into account siblings in graduate school (which your brother is), thus your parents may be expected to pay 100% of the calculated IM EFC. Third – just about every FA package (except Princeton’s) included loans. From what you said, you got $7000 in loans – the college board reports that the typical financial aid package is comprised of 30% loans – you package is only 25% loans, so you did better than average there.

My suggestion is that you talk to the FA office about an appeal due to your brother being at pharmacy school – but be aware, they may not offer you any more help.

With such a low FAFSA EFC, you may want to attend a school that just looks at FAFSA