<p>Your official EFC comes from filing a FAFSA, which you’ll do online on/after January 1st (the earlier the better). You can read pgs 4-6 of this doc and determine whether you will qualify for the Automatic 0 or Simplified Needs test, either of which will disregard parent assets:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ifap.ed.gov/efcformulaguide/attachments/111408EFCFormulaGuide0910.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ifap.ed.gov/efcformulaguide/attachments/111408EFCFormulaGuide0910.pdf</a></p>
<p>If you haven’t already received a transcript, I would call the guidance office of your HS and request they mail you an unofficial copy now. It should take about a week or less. Most of the schools upstate use a similar format and your rank appears on your transcript. It can/will change up to the end of the first semester of your senior year, but you’ll use the one from your current transcript to apply to colleges/scholarships until then.</p>
<p>There is a stickied thread on the Admissions forum devoted to Questbridge - maybe you can find your answer there!</p>