I am a senior thinking of SCU and wondering how accurate is net price calculator.
https://www.scu.edu/financialaid/net-price-calculator/
It says I’ll get 20K aid to make net price $50K. Wonder how correct is this?
Are your parents still married to each other and not legally separated? Is their a family business in the picture?
Those are the two things that most often mess up CSS PROFILE estimates.
You can ask the FA director how accurate their NPC is. If there are merit awards in the picture, they can also skew the numbers (favorably if the awards are higher than Fin aid) Most schools only have formula driven guaranteed merit awards built into the NPC, because there is no telling whether any given student will get merit money that is awarded by the Admissions Officer’s discretion.