<p>how little do your parents need to make to get financial aid?
out of UCLA, UCB, UCSD, UT AUSTIN AND U OF WAHSINGTON</p>
<p>what school gives the best and most ?</p>
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<p>All of these are public universities. Public universities (with the exception of UVA and UNC-CH) do NOT guarantee to meet your full need. </p>
<p>Need based aid is based on your parents’ and you income and assets. Without knowing those, it’s hard to say what you will get anywhere.</p>
<p>Now…having said that…I hope you are instate for something (UC’s perhaps). If you are a very low income student from CA, you would possibly qualify for the full Pell, a Cal grant, Stafford loan and work study. Your parent income level would need to be very low.</p>
<p>The other public universities…well…they will be very costly as an out of state student. If you qualify for federally funded aid, you would get that but your costs of attending would be double (or so) of attending school in your own state of residence.</p>
<p>Basically without knowing your parents income and assets it is IMPOSSIBLE to even guess the amount of need based aid you might receive at any of these schools.</p>
<p>waht is really low?
could you give me a ballpark figure so i have some idea</p>
<p>or can anybody tell me if they got financial aid and where and possibly how much their parents made</p>
<p>There really is no ball park figure. The EFC depends on many factors - income (parent and student), assets (parent and student), number of parents, age of older parent, number in family, number of students in college etc. The EFC formula takes all those into account when calculating the EFC.</p>
<p>The main federal grant is the Pell grant. The highest Pell grant for 2010-2011 is $5550 and requires a 0 EFC. It is quite hard to get a 0 EFC. Most people with a 0 EFC have parent incomes below $30,000 and meet other requirements than qualify them for the automatic 0 EFC.</p>
<p>As the EFC goes up the amount of Pell goes down until at an EFC of around 5200 (don’t know the exact figure off hand) there is no Pell eligibility.</p>
<p>If you are a CA resident I believe the calgrant income is around $70,000 for a 2 person family but a little higher for larger families.</p>
<p>If you want to know what your family income threshholds for PELL are, play around with the on line calculators. The reason, no exact numbers can be given is because factors such as your parents ages, number of dependents, and other things play a role as well. As Thumper says, $30K is a common threshhold number for full PELL monies. </p>
<p>Remember that EFC only guarantees you government eligibility for funds which not all colleges have. Only the PELL and Stafford loans are guaranteed with EFC and college costs that make you eligible. Everything else is determined by the college itself. The most generous colleges tend to use other calculators such as FAFSA to come up with their own definition of need.</p>