<p>When we filled out the FAFSA, the estimated Pell grant was $1700. I had already done our taxes at this point so when we sent the tax transcript to my son's school (he will be a sophomore) nothing was different, but his aid package had a $1700 Perkins loan but no pell grant.</p>
<p>Anyone have any ideas why this may have happened?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>What are the before and after EFC?</p>
<p>I just got a reply from the school. Apparently the reason is because on the FAFSA, I listed having two people in the household in college. Our older son lives at home and takes a class here and there at the local community college. He also works so he is not our dependent so our tax return only shows two parents and our younger son. That made our EFC 3850 and put him out of Pell Grant range.</p>
<p>3850 EFC is not too high for Pell. EFC has to be about 5000 to be too high.</p>
<p>mom2collegekids…the financial aid office is who told me that 3850 put the pell grant out of reach. If 5000 is the cap, do you know of any other reason he would not have gotten the pell grant?</p>
<p>Will your son be a full time student?</p>
<p>Or will he be going to a CC where the cost is too low???</p>
<p>here is the Pell Schedule:’
<a href=“http://www.ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/attachments/201314PellGrantPaymentandDisbursementSchedules.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/attachments/201314PellGrantPaymentandDisbursementSchedules.pdf</a></p>
<p>Yes, he is a full time student at a 4 year school and is not currently working.</p>
<p>mom2collegekids…according to the chart he is eligible for $1795. The cost to attend range is the very last one for an EFC of 3850. Is there anything we can do if the school doesn’t even seem to know this information?</p>
<p>If this is a 4 year school, what is the Cost of Attendance? I don’t understand what you wrote.</p>
<p>For 2013-2014 the COA is $23,416.00.</p>
<p>If FAFSA said you are eligible for $1700 Pell, it sounds like the EFC was 3850 *before *any changes made by the school. If you went from 2 in school to one in school, the EFC would double and be too high for the Pell.</p>
<p>It does not matter whether the older son is on your tax return or not. What matters is whether he would be considered a dependent for FAFSA. Is he under 24? If so, he would be a dependent for FAFSA so it would be correct to include him on your FAFSA if he is attending school at least half time (6 hours a semester). If he is 24 or over (or can answer yes to any of the other dependency questions) then he can not be included as one in college on your younger son’s FAFSA. (Taking the occasional class would not be enough (depending on your definition of occasional class.)</p>
<p>The OP needs to clarify. Was the EFC 3850 with 2 in college or with 1 in college???</p>
<p>The older son is 25. I just logged in and looked at the SAR. It was updated 6/06/13 and the EFC is now 6572.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the replies.</p>
<p>Since older son doesn’t count as a household child in college, your EFC nearly doubled.</p>