Financial aid

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston College
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<p>TKsmom:</p>

<p>please recognize that fafsa is used ONLY for eligibility for federal funds, such as Pell grants, or Perkins/Stafford loans, and some PLUS loans in certain situations. Other than that, a private college like BC relies solely on the CSS Profile. </p>

<p>As I posted earlier, one big difference between fafsa and Profile is that the latter uses home equity, while the former does not. The equity calculation is ~5.6%. Thus, $200k in home equity would increase your efc by $11k over fafsa, assuming everything else was the same. Home equity totaling $400k would increase your efc by $23k…</p>

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<p>Once you submitted fafsa and the CSS profile, how long does it take to hear from BC (for accepted students)?</p>

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<p>Anyone from BC; with info?</p>

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<p>i just logged into my agora and when i go to the finaid tab, it says Financial Aid Acceptance… but when i enter my access key it says it is invalid? i’m POSITIVE i have my access key right… anyone else having this issue??</p>