<p>So I have a twin who decided to take a gap year costing about 7,000. I put that my parents will have to put two children through college on the fafsa. Will this change my financial aid? I already submitted the deposit</p>
<p>By the way I am going to unh</p>
<p>Yes, your EFC will likely double. What was your EFC and what aid did you get?</p>
<p>Yes, if your sibling is now not attending college your EFC will increase. Were your getting a pell grant in your package it will change it be removed. Any need based aid will change</p>
<p>But what if my sibling was going to a community college that cost 2k. How could they weight the sibling in college that heavily</p>
<p>Your EFC is going up because your parents only now have to pay for one in college </p>
<p>The way it works when there are two kids going to college, the parents’ EFC is split in half, and what colleges a kid finds with that EFC is completely up to the kid. It can a college that is over the cost of the EFC with zero financial aid, or commuting to a local school, though some colleges will have some stipulations that the EFC split is good only if the sibling is in a certain type of school, often trade or vocational schools are not counted. </p>
<p>That it makes no sense for you is not the issue. It makes sense overall. There are a lot of things with the process that doesn’t make sense in certain situation and are fair. It’s just that “them’s the rules”.</p>
<p>Now that the parental part of your EFC is doubled, yes, aid such as PELL is endangered. You may lose your financial aid. If the amount of aid you received, however does not meet need as defined by EFC, there may be less of a loss or even no loss if your aid left sufficient gap.</p>
<p>Your EFC will go up. But that does not necessarily translate into a change in financial aid. Which UNH are you talking about (new Hampshire or New Haven)?</p>
<p>If you qualified for a Pell grant or SEOG because of two students being in college, it is likely you will lose those awards. Neither UNH meets full need. What sort of need based aid did you get from UNH?</p>
<p>When you have a sibling in college, you are required to submit a statement, usually early in the fall term, that verifies that sibling’s enrollment in college. You will not be able to do that. </p>
<p>It is up to the college to determine what will happen with your aid (unless it’s a Pell, which will be reduced if you don’t any longer qualify for it).</p>
<p>I would suggest you contact UNH and ask them this question. They will tell you the implications of anot having a sibling in college next year. </p>