<p>Just for kicks and giggles (and for serious reasons), if you could rename EFC what would you name it?</p>
<p>The words Expected Family Contribution have to be the most misleading words out there in the college app process. It wrongly suggests that that is all a family is expected to pay.</p>
<p>So, if you were a bigwig at the federal Dept of Education, what would you change the words to be?</p>
<p>(feel free to include realistic suggestions as well as the oh-so-deserving ridiculous ones.)</p>
<p>I think we should call it ERE – Early Retirement Eliminator.
Or FRS-- Forget Retirement, Sucker!
Or YIV – Your Italian Vacation (which is where I had planned to go on my 50th birthday, until I realized that with 2 kids in college, I’d be lucky to celebrate at the Olive Garden, much less travel to Italy!)</p>