How Colleges Compute Financial Aid?

<p>Before you posted the school name I was going to suggest you see if they had pledged at
[Project</a> on Student Debt: Financial Aid Pledges](<a href=“http://projectonstudentdebt.org/pc_institution.php]Project”>http://projectonstudentdebt.org/pc_institution.php)
But I notice BC has not been listed at this site. It may help future applicants to review the site for the schools they are applying to and see what promises thay have made. Many of the schools on this site have pledged to meet IM computed aid. My D1 is at one such school where my IM EFC was lower than her FAFSA EFC and they met the lower EFC 100%. However they did initially award Work Study in her package despite using the lower CSS EFC. The work study was removed when she was awarded outside scholarships resulting in a reduction in need. I also had an issue in year 2 when they assumed the outside scholarships were continuing and when corrected massively changed my EFC - the FA officer said they only had to meet the FAFSA EFC - I went to the Director of FA and got that corrected. If you have more children I would make sure you ask the FA officer how additional children in college will affect future FA - ask for both the oldest and each school the next child applies to as well.</p>