<p>does that mean like 14k expected contribution?? my parent’s gross income was something like 22k.
thanks</p>
<p>whoa, no way does that mean a 14k contribution. it means a contribution of $14.00</p>
<p>No. It means your Expected Family Contribution is $14. You’ll get some good aid packages.</p>
<p>My efc is around 3800. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>thanks for the clarification, guys. whew, what a relief!</p>
<p>45,000 EFC</p>
<p>my efc is 0… and it turned out my opackage of 30k (about) had about (20k in loans ugh)</p>
<p>my efc is $3.50</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>I died looking at my number.</p>
<p>I have to say, that I think the whole system is unfair. I also don’t like how people on this forum judge parents, who work very hard for every dime they have, to live a comfortable life. Some of us live in areas, where having an expensive house and new cars are practically required to be accepted by the community. My parents do make a lot more than the average American, but we have very high expenses also. Our EFC is way more than we can actually afford.</p>
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<p>*** required to be accepted by the community ***</p>
<p>then you are living in the wrong place. There is no such thing as ‘required to be accepted’ unless you are trying to keep up with the Jones. that attitude will cost you dearly throughout your life.</p>
<p>“Some of us live in areas, where having an expensive house and new cars are practically required to be accepted by the community.”</p>
<p>Perfect example if the entitlement mentality. </p>
<p>Yes, it’s expensive to live expensively.</p>
<p>Fafsa efc 32,000
Profile efc 24, 000
Good think dear son is going to a school that uses the profile</p>
<p>Momof2sons – it’s great that you come out better on the Profile, but that usually happens with parents who are getting a reduction because of private school expenses for a younger sibling. That’s the one very typical big expense that is considered on the Profile but not on the FAFSA. It makes some sense that private colleges would be willing to subsidize families to send their younger kids to private schools… but it would make no sense whatsoever for the federal government to be subsidizing that when it comes to dispensation of limited federal funds – I mean,in terms of policy, public, taxpayer supported funds really shouldn’t go beyond the cost of financing public education. Anything else on the FAFSA would kind of be like a back door voucher system for private schools.</p>
<p>How do you know the profile efc?</p>
<p>WantobeaMdn – the word for your parents’ situation (post #210) is “living beyond your means”. You reap what you sow.</p>
<p>15 k for me… my dad was gonna be a CPA but nooo… he had to touch lives by being a teacher lol</p>
<p>collegebound, you don’t know the profile EFC – momof2sons probably used one of the online calculators on a web site like <a href=“http://www.finaid.org%5B/url%5D”>www.finaid.org</a> which give a good approximation.</p>
<p>Yes, I used the online calculators which were very consistent with the aid package we received from my son’s ED school (a Profile school)</p>
<p>We only have one college aged student and the other is in public middle school but our profile EFC was still significantly lower (by about 8K) than our Fafsa.</p>
<p>$2323 mmm poor</p>
<p>not really, kinda sucks</p>