Perhaps there should be a thread where people who have gotten FA offers list:
- Name of college
- Percentage difference in net price actual FA offer and NPC are.
- Whether finances are simple (married parents or single parent at colleges that do not require both, W-2 income, ordinary levels of ordinary assets) or if there are complications (divorced parents at colleges that require both, small business or self employment, assets are large or include things like business, farm, rental housing, etc., income other than W-2 and small amounts of investment income, etc).
- Whether actual FA and/or NPC include merit scholarships, and whether they match if they do.