Is my EFC too high?

sblake7
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:01:58 +0000

Yeah- something wrong here.

With FAFSA, when you go from one in college to two in college, it halves the parental contribution to the EFC. Student contribution is usually relatively small-- so unless your kids each had huge assets, the EFC for each should be roughly half of what the EFC for one was (meaning that the combined Expected Family Contribution would remain roughly the same as with one in college). Unless your income went way up this year.

Check the FAFSA and verify that you show two household members in college in 09/10, not one.