<p>GeminiMom, I also only found out because our award was down from the prior year. I guess you might also be suspicious if you have a fairly straightforward financial situation and your award is much different from their NPC prediction. </p>
<p>Our S’s school wouldn’t say what value they were applying to our house, but I had contacted them to find out what was raising our family contribution to a higher level than I expected, and they volunteered that they had assessed our home at higher than its purchase price. I thought the problem might be something else, which I had raised, but that turned out not to be the issue.</p>
<p>emeraldkity, they do ask for the purchase price, year of purchase, what you ow, and what (you believe) the current value is. But schools can feel free to ignore what you wrote down for current value and come up with a number that they feel may be more correct. So be prepared to back up your claim.</p>