How will sibling graduation affect my EFC?

Debruns
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:31:35 +0000

Thumper, I never heard of that, what a nice surprise for you!
My son’s grant was so mercurial, it really went up and down with fluctuations in our income.
I took advice I think from you and others to ask about a son in grad school and having children as freshman, etc. and did get varied answers. As expected, many colleges said, we would have 3 in household for children, but in college only 2. Three schools said they would go by the fafsa which says “3”, but we will see. I save all emails about FA and one helped me “remind” the FA office they said they would lower my bill after we spoke of a special circumstance.
Getting things in writing, saving an email (although they try to be vague sometimes) is always a good thing.