<p>CC’s financial aid award offer arrived in the mail today.
I know we should be grateful for any offer, but unfortunately, it only covers about a third of the difference between the total cost and the “expected family contribution” (EFC) calculated by FAFSA.</p>
<p>According to CC’s Common Data Set figures, their average aid package meets 94.9% of need. I don’t know why they met so much less of ours. Maybe they use their own methods to calculate the EFC, and come up with a different figure from FAFSA’s. </p>
<p>This is going to be tough.</p>