<p>The “friend” should check the figures on the FAFSA (everyone should do that). BUT the bottom line is that the UCs do not guarantee to meet financial need with aid. They don’t. The most this student “might” get (if he had an EFC of $0…) is the Pell grant and the Stafford loan. </p>
<p>And again…my gut feeling is that the “friend” doesn’t have the whole financial picture. As Kayf said…this sounds complicated. How much of the financial picture is missing from that told to Chaos? </p>
<p>And again to Chaos…what exactly IS the issue? This is an OOS student whose grandmother has a college fund that is FULLY FUNDING the OOS cost. That is what the grandmother’s college fund presumably is for.</p>