Understanding the net price calculator

BaileyBoomBoom
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 04:11:00 +0000

I was wondering if the amount of FA indicated on the Net Price Calculator changes during the course of a year? Since it’s time to think about applying ED, I did a check on the NPC to confirm the amounts of indicated aid that came up when I ran the numbers in the spring. To my surprise, the numbers changed by a considerable amount (~$10k-$15k). The tax and asset information I used only changed very slightly. Has anyone else had this experience? I checked other school NPC sites and sure enough the FA indicated changed by a similar amount. This is worrisome for me, as I was thinking about applying ED. I asked a friend about this and he indicated that when he ran the numbers earlier, the NPC included a pell grant as part of his package. When he ran the numbers recently, the pell grant wasn’t included in his package.