<p>ms - I would suspect an error has been made somewhere, if Syracuse and USC are apples-to-apples comparables. I suggest you call USC FA, disclose the Syracuse award, and ask them to go over how USC calculated your aid. Don’t be surprised if it was Syracuse that made the error, or that there are differences in the formulae being applied that cause the difference. USC takes the IM EFC reported by Profile and then does its own secret tweaks to come up with “need as determined by USC.” See #15 above.</p>