<p>NPC on College Board site for Flagler College advises $10k - FL State grant $4,400 / Flagler $3,561 / Federal SEOG $2,500. College Board NPC asked for more financial info than Flagler NPC. 2 working parent income is high enough to not expect any Federal monies. Flagler NPC only advises Merit of $2k and State grant of $3,000 which I would think includes $2,500 FRAG ($ from state when attending private college). We are Florida residents. Admissions doesn't open again until. Jan 6 so trying to do some more plotting and planning as the acceptance letter sits here. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Looks like that SEOG mention is a mistake. If your EFC is beyond Pell, then you wouldn’t be considered for SEOG. </p>
<p>What is your likely federal EFC?</p>
<p>Odd that a mistake would be made on the CB NPC since it asked for income and assets. Oh well, guess we have to just wait until we have the chat with the school. We ran the college’s NPC on every school before D applied so we had a good idea of what our numbers would be. </p>
<p>If your FAFSA EFC is above about 5500, there’s no way you’d get SEOG. </p>
<p>I’m confused. Do you have a financial aid offer from Flagler with that acceptance letter? If so…THAT is what matters.</p>
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I think that she only has NPC results…and that SEOG is likely an error since no Pell is shown AND she says that their income is too high for fed grants.</p>
<p>Thumper1… If I had the letter why would I bother with the NPC? Odd that the CB NPC would not have the filter to take out the SEOG. Regardless, we will chat up the admission office in early January to get the real deal. We are finishing the FAFSA and expect the EFC to be “the whole bill”.</p>
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Fortunately / Unfortunately she will not qualify for any need based aid. 100% from the bank of Mom and Dad…but hoping for a bit here and there using her URM status, GPA, and?</p>
<p>We are finishing the FAFSA and expect the EFC to be “the whole bill”.</p>
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<p>Ok…so you already know that you won’t qualify for any need-based aid, is that correct?</p>
<p>Is your D’s M+CR still 1170?</p>
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<p>I asked because you said you had your admission offer. Sometimes, the aid offers come with early admission offers. </p>
<p>If this is an EA offer of admission, you will get your financial aid award sometime before May 1. </p>
<p>I’m am curious. You say you are “completing the FAFSA”. Are you doing the 2015-2016 FAFSA? Some reports say it is not yet available for completion and filing. </p>
<p>The FRAG is now $3000, so that’s why it’s showing that as the ‘state grant’. It is 40% of the instate tuition, so when it goes up, the FRAG goes up. Last year it was $2500, but in the spring semester the state shorted that $33/student. I think some schools made up the $33 and others passed it on to the student. I’m sort of anticipating the FRAG will take another hit this spring, but I could live with $33 less because we picked up $500 this year.</p>
<p>I think the Flagler NPC would be the best indication, although Flagler is usually pretty generous with FA even though the tuition is low to being with so the $2000 almost seems like a minimum. Is your child eligible for Bright Futures? That would add $2300-3000 per year.</p>
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<p>Is that $3k Bright Futures? </p>
<p>If not, what is it? In other threads you indicate that income is too high for need-based aid.</p>
<p>The FRAG is the Florida Resident Access Grant. It is awarded to any Florida resident who attends a Florida private university and is 40% of instate tuition. The purpose is to encourage residents to stay in Florida but not go to the overcrowded florida public schools. Any resident can apply for it and it is not need based. It’s not guaranteed, and the state legislature has to add it to the state budget every year.</p>
<p>Bright Futures is awarded to Florida high school students. It’s a merit award. It is not need based either.</p>
<p>So would a FL resident student going to a FL private get both FRAG and BF?</p>
<p>Yep. My daughter gets both, plus her school’s merit scholarship, an athletic scholarship, and a private scholarship. My job is to follow up as each one gets screwed up!</p>
<p>You have to earn the BF, and you must apply for it before you graduate from high school. If you don’t, it is gone. If you don’t start using it within 2 years of high school graduation, it’s gone (except for military service). Not everyone earns BF. You have to have certain courses in college, including a foreign language, a certain gpa, and an ever rising ACT/SAT score. A few years ago, to get the lower of the university awards (there is a tech school award too), you needed a 22 on the ACT, and it’s now 26. Something like 50% fewer students qualified last year than did four years ago.</p>
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Ok…but none of it is need-based.</p>
<p>The OP has no need (according to her other posts). So, the SEOG mention is likely an error (that is usually for Pell qualified students). The only way that a non-Pell student can get SEOG is if all Pell students get SEOG first and then there is left-over SEOG and that can be awarded to students WITH need (but OP says that they have no need). And, schools usually do not have enough SEOG to even give to all Pell students.</p>
<p>The Collegeboard NPC likely has an error in the calc (yes, that happens). Flaglers NPC on their own website is likely more accurate in that regard…however it seems to be neglecting the BF award? </p>
<p>OP daughter might not have earned the BF award, but also some of the schools have taken it off the NPC. I think there were too many variables to the BF (it’s not only gpa and scores, there are certain course requirements, community service requirements, filing it on time, etc). When I was playing with it last year, it appeared on my daughter’s list just once of the MANY times I used the NPC, and I think that was for 2013, before they updated it for 2014. OP can figure it out if her daughter earns the BF, and just take $77/cr for the Medallion and $103/cr for the scholar level off the tuition.</p>
<p>I agree that one of the NPC’s she used was calculating as if the OP was low income and awarding the SEOG, Pell, and probably a Florida grant for lower income (it can be about $1000, and has about the same qualifications as Pell).</p>
<p>Thanks for all the input. I will report back once we have the money chat with Flagler so we know once and for all which NPC was closer to the mark. </p>
Flagler Admission officer could not have been any more professional, helpful, informative, interested, and easy to talk with. D is thrilled with her decision and we are thrilled with the final tab.
@dodeamom18 So, you are saying the NPC Flagler was right?
According to the OP, the NPC Flagler estimated a smaller amount of aid.