<p>Just wondering how accurate the calculator on stanford's website is to all of you stanford 2017 SCEA acceptants or past years.
Thanks!</p>
<p>I thought it was fairly accurate. Then again, I am a prospective student from a low income background. If you under the 65,000 bracket as I do, then it should be fairly accurate. Other than that, I wouldn’t be able to tell you exactly how accurate it is for higher income students.</p>
<p>Though I still plan to appeal my financial aid decision, I found that the aid calculator was quite a bit different from the aid award I received last month. (I come from a family with an income over 100,000 and no complicating factors like excessive savings, stocks, etc.)</p>
<p>It should be fairly accurate unless there are extenuating circumstances of any kind that can’t really be calculated using a calculator.</p>
<p>cool thanks for the replies guys! For other high-school students lurking around this forum
I would consider my family somewhere around the mid middle class of our city and the calculator has been giving me answers ranging from 0 to 20k+ for financial aid depending on how much info I put in. Hopefully if I’m accepted 2 years from now it’ll be closer to the higher mark.</p>
<p>@LeiaOrgana congratz on the acceptance and good luck with the appeal!</p>