<p>Middlebury boasts being not only need-blind, but to meeting 100% of demonstrated financial need. And I'm not going to lie: my package is amazing, almost a full ride. However, they said on my reward letter that my EFC is $4000, while on my FASFA it's absolutely $0. Four grand is actually a very, very significant portion of my family's income (we're below poverty-level); luckily, my federal Pell grant alone more than covers the EFC, and along with the fact that I've luckily received many outside scholarships, I have nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>But I'm wondering how they can claim to meet all of the demonstrated need when they apparently made up their own EFC? Doesn't really make sense to me.</p>