<p>I just found out today that I put in the wrong information for my family's total savings on CSS. The difference in the numbers is about 35k. On the CSS I also put 0 for family investments(excluding house), but its actually a lot more than 0. I guess what I did was I added my real family savings and investments and put it in the saving's line in the CSS and left the investments blank. Currently my EFC is around 5000, and Cornell is asking my family to pay a couple thousands more than that. Cornell's efc for me make sense when put in perspective with my wrong total savings. But, with the real savings in place, what cornell is asking for is more than half of our savings. Nevertheless, our total investment(including house) is more than double the 100k cutoff for 0 efc(Cornell gives 0 loans and expect nothing from parents with income less than 60k and investment under 100k, we only qualify for the 60k cutoff, but our investment is too high). Once I make the changes, our total investment will increase by a couple tens of thousands, so will this off set the effect of a much lower savings?</p>
<p>I hope i was clear in my problem above. It's kind of hard to not explicitly state numbers and make sense at the same time.</p>
<p>Thanks for any help!
le</p>