Independant Student, $7000 EFC?!!

janelle1985
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:36 +0000

I’m going to community college. The cost of attendance is estimated at $13000 or so for independent students. So it works out to about half. I should be able to get subsidized/unsubsidized stafford loans to cover the actual tuition, books, etc etc. The schools estimate of $6000 for room and board is low…but if I have my income to cover all of that and loans to cover the actual bills from the school I should be OK. I know there are ways for me to pay because the cost of attendance is so low. I was just really shocked when I saw that because I don’t feel like my income is high enough to have an EFC of $7000.