Did anybody asked to fill out parents expense breakdown sheet?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Bryn Mawr College
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<p>My mom just got an email from the financial aid office about our family income.
It was saying</p>

<p>"Dear OO,</p>

<p>We are delighted that you have applied for admission to Bryn Mawr College for the 2015-2016 academic year. We are reviewing all financial aid applications for candidates, so that we can provide those students who are admitted with a financial aid decision along with the admissions decision. </p>

<p>To help us better understand your family’s financial circumstances, I request that you submit the following information as soon as possible.
On the CSS/PROFILE, you reported that your parent’s income for year 2014 is $<strong><em>. Please help us understand how your family of five provides for basic living expenses, and paying $</em></strong>* a month in rent ($*** a year.) Please complete the enclosed Parent Expense Breakdown form.
We appreciate your prompt attention to this request. We recommend faxing this information to us at 610-526-5249 as soon as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns."</p>

<p>Also my family (include me) has only three people and I don’t know why they are saying my “family of five”.
Ugh… would this be a good sign that they read my fa application look really carefully? or is this just part of process…
I don’t know I am so confused. </p>

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Dear stephayeon,

Do hope that you were able to clear this up. Yes, this email is part of the process when family income looks to be too low to support the family in the location where the family is living. Some people do have sources of income that don’t get listed on the forms, and that could change the calculations for financial aid (or not as the case may be). If your family size really is three, and there was a mixup in the CSS/Profile that resulted in an indication of a family size of five, making that correction might be enough.