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I will be paying about 11 times what the calculator said I would pay and will have a lot of student loans. I have submitted an appeal and was rewarded another 1,000 dollars a year, which is nice but didn’t put a dent in the entire situation. Can anyone give some consoling information for a guy who is looking at almost 100 thousand dollars in debt?
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Sounds like you expected to pay about $2k per year, but have been told that you have to pay about $23k per year.
If so, that’s a huge difference. The “devil is often in the details” when this happens.
Are your parents divorced? If so, how did you input their info into the NPC?
Does either of your parents own a business or have a career that includes “business deductions”?
Does your family own any property other than their home?
Do your parents have other income that you forgot to report (rental income? pension?)
Does their home have a lot of equity?