<p>Does the EFC get split between siblings if one sibling is in graduate school, or it limited to undergrad students?</p>
<p>Your sibling in grad school would be considered an independent student. Your EFC in many cases will not be split with your grad school sibling. Some schools may take into consideration that ur sibling in grad school but most will not</p>
<p>I ran into this last year, it was a pain trying to figure it out, here’s the thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1083292-css-profile-number-school.html?highlight=graduate[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1083292-css-profile-number-school.html?highlight=graduate</a></p>
<p>That was a confusing time entomom. Some schools, not the majority will figure in your son or daughter in grad school under certain conditions with FA. Some will tell your outright (Brown was one I read about that said No in online questions about it unless they lived home)others you have to ask.
My son was living home and going to grad school and not working at the time, so we took care of more than 50% of his living expenses. One college my twins went to gave me a little more when I explained on the CSS profile about that, another didn’t. The little more wasn’t equal to having a full child in college, but it was still welcomed.</p>
<p>^It sure was. :eek:</p>
<p>And in the end my older D ended up not going to grad school but is doing Americorps instead. But that wasn’t resolved until spring so it made FA for my entering fr daughter overly complicated. The problem was that I couldn’t always tell if the FA package we were being offered included the benefit of another kid in college or not.</p>
<p>When D2 was applying, we contacted each school to which she had been admitted and asked. It was about 50-50, with some schools counting the grad student as another student in college and others not counting that student at all.</p>
<p>It can’t hurt to ask,as long as you know it might not be for the whole time your youngest is in college. I found most answered my emails and I occasionally had to followup once to make sure we both understood what was asked.
I called and emailed but preferred email because I had it in writing and a name.</p>