Is this a bad FA package?

mom2collegekids
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:53:59 +0000

I don’t know why any of this is a surprise to you. you’ve known since mid Feb that your EFC was around $15k. Your thread makes it sound like this is all a surprise to you. You’ve known for awhile that schools would expect your parents to pay about $15k per year.

The UC is putting your parents EFC in a Plus loan form for convenience. How much will they pay each year without taking out a loan? What are your parents saying?

How much will your parents pay EACH YEAR for a UC (without taking out a loan)???

did you discuss how much they’ll pay each year BEFORE applying to colleges??? If not, why not? and if so, how much did they say that they would pay? and how did that square with what the NPCs said?