Affect of 2nd kid on EFC?

Paying for College
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@mom2collegekids – both had income from PT/summer jobs. Personal accounts were minimal and within $200 of each other.

EFC for one was $56, for two was $80. It was a while ago now. Both were attending CSS/PROFILE schools and the total FA package for each was within $500. S1’s merit money that actually reduced our expenses the first two years was dumped into the FA award his last two years. We weren’t surprised at that.

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Are these the actual numbers, or are you abbreviating (for instance, writing $56 instead of $5,600 or $56,000)? Because a change of $24 from one year to another is practically nothing, and could be due to a number of perfectly reasonable factors.