<p>“if the college cannot meet the demonstrated financial need” is the difference between schools that gap and schools the meet full need. No one would question a student’s declining the aid offer from a gapping school, but even at a school that meets full need, FAFSA and PROFILE don’t always capture a family’s true circumstances (e.g., bad parental decisions could result in heavier than average “life style” debt burdens that truly prevent fully funding the legitimate EFC). There’s just no way a school would somehow force (if it could) a student to attend, and then resort to expulsion because the EFC bill wasn’t paid.</p>
<p>See <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/education/edlife/strategy.html?_r=2[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/education/edlife/strategy.html?_r=2</a> for another take on this.</p>