My D’13 is not attending but was admitted and received a FA award from Dartmouth. The $8K EFC sounds right to me on a 75K income.
@foopyblue2 is correct. Dartmouth pads the student budget with about $4000 for Books, Transportation, & Personal Expenses and awards FA on the whole budget. If you are thrifty you can spend way less then the $4K on those expenses and save money. At both Dartmouth and Princeton (where D attends) the real cost to the family was less then our EFC and both schools will apply outside scholarships toward the self help portion.