<p>What does your EFC need to be to qualify for Pell Grants?</p>
<p>And yes, t his does apply to this thread because I'm asking because I'm not sure if I'll get aid from my top choice, Brown, if I get in, God willing!!!! :)</p>
<p>Pretty low. I don't know the maximum EFC, but my EFC was hovering around 3,000 and I got a 1600 Pell Grant. It jumped to 6,000 this year and now I don't have one (and don't have a Perkins loan, either).</p>
<p>I had 1,600 for each semester.</p>
<p>I also have two older brothers in college so my EFC is probably pretty low.</p>
<p>I heard that if the student has an income of $3,800 (primarily for those of us with a community college and a part time job) or higher, they are ineligible for it. Unlike my bro, who works twice as much as I do, I actually saved money to pay summer tuiton.</p>
<p>okay yeah i don't qualify. lol</p>
<p>I dont know where htey come up with EFCs. My parents make about 80,000 a year, and our EFC is 18'000. We don't have 18,000 dollars! It's all loans. All loans.</p>
<p>here's a great solution, get married, then you get independent status and only ur income is considered for efc (which is nil for students)</p>
<p>trouble is finding somebody to do it with you who isn't blindly ignorant of the huge advantages of extra fin aid money</p>