The NMF will be free at UTD, and non NMF twin will be cheap with 13K AES (COA instate is about 25K max) . Like as not you are not getting FA with your COA for both being about 12K max. That would put your real life EFC at 6K each, I suspect it would take a lot of unemployment time to get to there. was your $30K EFC for each kid or both? Did your DH get packaged out of his job? You can talk to UTD, but you were never getting FA as per your initial application.
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You have got significant FA at UTD, with NMF award for one kid and almost top AES for the other. Make sure you follow the NMF reqs to get the best deal. The NMF might get a full ride at other schools. Your AES kid might get money at TT, or UH, or OOS at Alabama etc. It is getting late though, for this round.