<p>Hello Thanks for your help
I am a grad student and I just completed my FAFSA form at the end it stated that my EFC is 189. Can you explain this to me. Thanks again</p>
<p>Your expected contribution is $189, but that is misleading as there are no federal grants for graduate students. Are you applying for a masters or PhD? PhDs are usually funded. Professional schools not so much, and they need parent data, too, if you want ot be eligible for any institutional funding.</p>
<p>Masters can be funded or unfunded, mostly I hear they are unfunded unless you got some great grant somewhere. You can sometimes see a work study which could be used as a researchship and you could hope for a TAship with a stipend and tuition remission, the rest will be loans</p>