<p>yeah. my mom is young, was asked to pay a LOT more than 10% of her income according to our estimate from EA. I don’t know if they used my dad’s income or something when calculating that, but they had a separate section for “non-custodial contribution” (which was in addition to the EFC), so I don’t think so. a Harvard-like policy would be really good.</p>
<p>basically, if my real fin aid package comes out like that… I’m probably not going to caltech… unless MIT’s is even worse? haha. <em>yayyyyy loans? lol; we’ll see</em> so, yeah, a Harvard-like policy would be wonderful, from all schools, namely MIT+Caltech. (the new fin aid policy was like 40% of the reason I still applied to Harvard, even though I would possibly be happier at MIT or Caltech…)</p>
<p>so, yeah. I feel your pain. esp since my parent’s are divorced, but their COMBINED income is a lot. <em>sigh</em> oh well</p>