How many of your many teens are currently in college? Remember that your EFC will increase and your need based aid will decrease once the older siblings graduate. While you may only need 2-3 this year you must come up with a 4 year plan especially if she is the last one in school
@sybbie719 She is the last - thus far it hasn’t mattered a whit how many were in school at the same time. I haven’t see THIS year’s financial aid letters yet, but we have had 2 - 3 at a time for years and I think maybe one year one of them got a $500 grant. They have made college affordable through merit money and finding a place that gave them money even though they are out of state for one reason or another. The girls are all one year apart so the 3 that will be in next year will be in for a couple more.
Many NPC I came across were based on 2017/18 or even before that, so you might need to add a few years’ tuition increases to that number.