<p>I don't know if this is a particularly good idea, but I thought so...</p>
<p>In the "What Are My Chances?" thread there is a thread in which college students/already accepted HS seniors post their stats and where they got accepted...</p>
<p>SO I thought it would be helpful, in order to get an idea regarding how particular colleges deal with financial aid, to do a similar thing here, only with financial aid.</p>
<p>If you don't mind sharing personal financial information, could you post information pertinent to getting financial aid, and then say how much particular colleges offered you? It could be done in a fashion like this:</p>
<p>STUDENT INFO:</p>
<p>income:
savings:
other assets:</p>
<p>PARENT INFO:</p>
<h1>in family</h1>
<p>married/divorced
own business/unemployed?
income:
savings:
own home?
home equity:</p>
<h1>of children in college:</h1>
<p>Any other information/ suggestions for important information?</p>
<p>Also, provide your EFC if you know it.</p>
<p>have at it!</p>
<p>I would not hold my breath waiting for this information because:</p>
<p>many students do not know all of the intricate details of their parents finances.</p>
<p>why would people post all of their personal finances with strangers on a public website?</p>
<p>If you need to know how *your family * would stand I suggest using one of the financial aid calculators (the college board has a good one) where you would run your numbers using both the federal and institutional methodology.</p>
<p>Well, it would definitely be very interesting to have something like this,
BUT
I'm afraid most people wouldn't be willing to post personal info. like that!</p>
<p>yea... i kinda figured that'd be the case.</p>
<p>but if one holds an anonymous identity on this board (as i do), what's to lose?</p>
<p>I haven't gotten any letter yet though.</p>
<p>In lieu of looking for these results you might enjoy calculating the EFC using some of the online calculators based on some possible scenarios. Plug in some figures and see what pops up. By doing this over a wide range of figures you'll better understand the significance of each piece of the puzzle.</p>