A student, with parent help, completes and submits FAFSA and this results in a SAR with a FAFSA computed EFC. That’s not how it works with Profile. There is no “Profile generated EFC.” Instead, schools that use Profile take the information from each student’s Profile, run that information through the school’s unique formula, and derive a school-specific EFC (or whatever the school wants to call it) for every student that submits a Profile. In simpler terms, a student could submit the Profile to ten different schools that require it to be considered for institutional need-based aid, and based on the information reported on Profile, each of the ten schools might come up with a different amount that the family is expected to contribute to the student’s expenses.