Source for Gifting Percentages

Paying for College
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<p>I have several clients who I need to calculate their expected cost of attendance based on their financial situation. I was affiliated with a company who provided me with the data for % need met, gifting, loans, etc. but am no longer using them. I have been using Collegeboard.org to bridge the gap while I search for another source, however, they have now changed their website and only publish the net price, not the % need, gifting, etc.</p>

<p>Does anyone know a good source to get the average gifting numbers? I don’t mind paying for the information. My biggest concern is that it is updated regularly and reasonably accurate. I do not want to run a net price calculator for every school my clients are thinking about attending, I would rather be able to plug in the gifting and loan values into my database and have it calculate their expected net cost in one calculation.</p>

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<p>Many of the NPCs link to the CollegeBoard website where it is possible to save the student’s data and have it fed into the NPC of another institution. You can use your client’s own logins for CollegeBoard, or you could create your own for each of them.</p>

<p>As for the NPCs for institutions that don’t link to the CollegeBoard, I expect you are stuck with running each of them separately. Yes, it is burdensome for you, but I expect that your clients are paying you for accuracy rather than wild ball-park figures which is what you could end up with if you try to create your own database from scratch.</p>