<p>The EFC is your Expected Family Contribution, per year. Whatever it ends up being is the amount that the FAFSA determined that your family should pitch in.</p>
<p>MissySanoli, nice! Did you also apply to UCSD? I’ve heard from some people they have an even better bio program than UCLA.</p>
<p>I got admitted to UCSD and I was ready to go… until I got UCLA’s acceptance 
I know they have an amazing science department, but since I want to be a dentist and UCLA has a dental school, LA was the better option for me. BTW, has your ePAL been corrected? I e-mail the financial office over a week ago and they haven’t replied :/</p>
<p>The net pay of $8600 should be correct as this would be the lowest you can go without any other extra scholarships such as Regents. Don’t be concerned with their estimated net cost as your own cost can vary such example would be housing (you can look up housing rates online) but it can estimate anywhere from $11000 and up thus you’re able to subtract from the estimated “net cost” if you lived more frugally. Also books do not cost as much as they estimated, most people spend less than $500 for each year and unless you have a car, transportation should cost nowhere the estimated $800 on the estimation. Personal expenses would vary but you can just write that off as I don’t believe you would be taking out loans just for personal expenses. Other than that you can literally literally slash your net cost to around $3-5k based on how cheap you live (mostly just based on what type of housing you are doing)</p>