<p>Can I change my family contribution among different schools I apply to?</p>
<p>Not sure I understand your question. You give schools your financial information and they determine how much your family should contribute. Profile schools use different formulas to determine need, so you may get a range of EFCs to various schools.</p>
<p>Schools determine what your family contribution should be.</p>
<p>You may be confused with the question that asks how much your family will contribute. That is not something that colleges use to determine aid. Not sure what it’s used for…LOL But, it’s not for figuring need otherwise everyone would put a low amount.</p>
<p>There was a thread discussion awhile ago about how to answer that question. Some thought that if you put a high number, then you’d get less aid. Some thought that if you put a low number, you might get rejected because the school will think you have too much need.</p>
<p>Don’t know what the final opinion/consensus was. Anyone?</p>
<p>Yes, that question always seemed strange to me too. I usually low ball what I figure the college is going to offer, but not so low it looks ridiculous in respect to the financial information I’ve provided.</p>
<p>If that’s what the OPs asking, then no, you wouldn’t change that for different schools because you submit the Profile once for all schools. People do later send in corrections to specific schools (you can’t do a correction for the Profile online like you can for FAFSA), but that is usually for final tax information or other changes that occur after submission, but not for the how much you can contribute question.</p>
<p>My family income is low (< 1000 dollars); I am an international student. But my parents said they can sell one of our two houses to increase our contribution if I apply to school X (the school I love most but </p>
<p>*So for school X, I want to increase my family contribution but for other schools my parents aren’t really willing to sell that house. *</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter. When you apply to those “other” schools, they are going to consider that second house an asset. Aid isn’t ONLY based on income; assets are also considered.</p>
<p>So…for the lesser schools, if you claim that you can’t contribute anything, they are still going to look at that second home and consider that an asset.</p>
<p>BTW…if your family only has an income of less than $1000, then you probably can’t afford to come to school here anyway. It’s nearly impossible for an int’l to come to the US without ANY family contribution at all. FA doesn’t cover everything.</p>
<p>You keep thinking that YOU get to determine family contribution and that’s not true. THE school is going to determine that number. The number you put is meaningless.</p>