Non-custodial parents

lalaloo6
Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:43:25 +0000

^^ That’s a really good question, one I am trying to find out the answer to, also.

One thing I don’t understand about the above responses is:

Caltech’s financial aid estimate included an EFC AND a non-custodial contribution. Does this mean that the noncustodial parent’s info was probably not used to calculate EFC? The reason it makes a difference is that after getting numbers from 2007, there is a HUGE difference between teh two incomes, and given that scholarships are often based on EFC (and given that scholarships decrease just about everything before EFC), I want to know if my dad’s income will just influence a non-custodial parent’s contribution, or if it will influence the actual EFC, or if it depends? Have any other people seen schools calculate a separate non-custodial contribution like that?