<p>Von, I understand your reply; it is pretty much the stock explanation, and understandable given the pertinent info I left out. I don’t want to compromise my privacy, but I would be interested in your take on whether this school is practicing “preferential packaging”, or you can envision a “standard FA calculation” for the following:
Upper middle class income
Liquid assets, retirement assets, home equity above norm for this income range
No debt other than mortgage
No out-of-norm expenses </p>
<p>CSS profile school. FA package contained no merit, but satisfied a need that was far greater than FAFSA- calculated need, which I’ve often seen referred to in this forum as a “best case”. Did contain a small amount of loans and work study, but even without these the grants alone far exceeded FAFSA-specified need. </p>
<p>Still a maybe?</p>