<p>Filed FAFSA with 2012 numbers. Husband made 130K and I made only $13K and daughter $0. EFC $40K. Husband lost his job Nov 2012 and is still out of work.</p>
<p>Daughter has 4 out of state public schools that all gave her 5-10K academic scholarships. We submitted consideration forms that we are now living on $13/yr + unemployment $, since husband is still out of work.</p>
<p>After reconsidering, one school gave $6K grant and changed FAFSA EFC to $12k, 2nd school changed EFC to $0 and gave $6K school grant and $5.6K fed pell grant - we were thrilled!!!</p>
<p>3rd school (2 days later) changed EFC back to 40K. This changed on FAFSA website and it was sent to all the schools. The 4th school hasn't done anything yet.</p>
<p>Daughter wants to go to the school with the 0 EFC but now when I go to FAFSA website it says EFC 40K and says we are not eligible for pell grant. 0 EFC has not changed offer...yet</p>
<p>I am worried that when the 0 efc school tries to get the pell grant they will be told no because other school changed FAFSA and thus EFC. Will this happen? And will they take away the 6K school grant too?</p>
<p>Hopefully, Kelsmom will chime in. But, I think the O EFC school would have to change FAFSA again for you to have a 0 EFC, because as of now, you don’t have a 0 EFC. </p>
<p>You don’t get to have different EFCs at different schools. When one school changes your EFC, its’ changed at all.</p>
<p>Thank you for your help. The $0 EFC school did make it doable - the cost was reduced to only $13K including r&b and books and transportation etc.</p>
<p>I was afraid that the answer would be that the 0 EFC school would need to resubmit FAFSA. I am wondering if they will be willing to do this or will it make them rethink their decision. How should I broach that subject with them? Should I do it now or wait until they tell us they need to change his award and take away the pell grant (and maybe the school grant too)?</p>
<p>I would find out what the correct EFC is. Find out where they changed it and which is accurate, then see how the schools respond.
Is paying $13,000 really affordable when that would be =your salary and your family would be dependent on unemployment?</p>
<p>So many stories like yours lately, lots of people finding it impossible to finding jobs equivalent to their former salary.
Good luck.</p>
<p>It’s not really about “correct” at this point, I don’t think. One school exercised professional judgment, based on the dramatically changed circumstances, and reduced the EFC to zero. The other school disagreed and changed it back.</p>
<p>My first instinct would be to decline the offer at the school that raised the EFC again (and notify both admissions and financial aid of your decision!), and see if that doesn’t get them to butt the heck out!</p>
<p>But this is kelsmom’s area of expertise . . .</p>
<p>My first instinct would be to decline the offer at the school that raised the EFC again (and notify both admissions and financial aid of your decision!), and see if that doesn’t get them to butt the heck out!</p>
<p>That’s what I was thinking. Decline the offer and admission at the high EFC School, so they will no longer be involved. Then go back to the O EFC school and see if they’ll use PJ again to change it again. </p>
<p>I agree that there’s no way to find out what the “correct EFC” is at this point. Technically, the correct one is the high one. PJ was used to lower it because of unemployment. </p>
<p>Hopefully, Kelsmom can chime in here. Don’t know if schools can keep changing EFC. Kelsmom may help you provide the correct wording to use at the 0 EFC school to get them to change it back to 0.</p>
<p>Why not just delete all the schools except the one she wants to enroll at?</p>
<p>Submit that correction. Contact the FA Director at the school that is zero EFC , explain that another college made a correction and now you would like that school’s correction reversed, reflecting the Professional Judgement that school has exercised by making your EFC zero.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the advice! So it sounds like we will have to call the $0 EFC school and preemptively tell them miser school changed the EFC . Is there any chance that since the generous offer was made in writing they will stick to it? Or not, because some of it is Fed dollars? Is there any chance we can just assume the offer sticks until they tell us otherwise or is it guaranteed this will come back to bite us later?</p>
<p>Emerald Kity- You are right it has been hard to get into a job at the same level in this economy, but we feel $13K is workable. If my husband does not get a job then she will take out a mixture of the 3 loans being offered. If my husband finds a job, she will have the money that we had set aside for college that we have not touched yet, not a lot but about $40K total and so we think she will get out not drowning too badly in loans because this is a very reasonably priced school to begin with.</p>
<p>The reason why I thought it was necessary to know the EFC, was only in reference to knowing if you would receive a Pell grant or not, because that may also qualify her for additional help at some schools.</p>
<p>But you are right that it is more important that the school updates the aid according to their current income, rather than last years.</p>
<p>A couple of you mentioned that kelsmom is an authority? I hoped she might have advice??</p>
<p>Update: I called the higher EFC school and they said they did not do the professional review yet, but they updated the FAFSA from the tax forms that I sent them (as instructed on the consideration form). We did not decline the offer at this point because we thought they might change the FAFSA again themselves once they do the professional review. We were not sure which would be easier to get this school to finish the review and hopefully lower the FAFSA or ask the school that had given a 0 efc with their review to resubmit it.</p>
