@laralei Are you certain that EFC is still “almost the same”? Or do you mean that income is “almost the same”?
If EFC is almost the same, then the Pell shouldn’t have dropped that much, I don’t think.
BUT…if the number of students in college changed (DD no longer in school)…then EFC would go up.
Can you go in and check to see if an adjustment was made on the FAFSA EFC?
Edit…I went back and looked at past threads, and it appears that your DD was having some issues…so does that mean that she’s no longer going to school? If that’s the case, then the “child in college” count would reduce to 1.