<p>if i go to college, does my sister's school see that i am in college and give her a break and will they do the same for my brother?</p>
<p>if i am in med school, does it still help my sibilings?</p>
<p>law school?</p>
<p>“if i go to college, does my sister’s school see that i am in college and give her a break and will they do the same for my brother?”
Yes Your parents will report that their FAFSA.</p>
<p>“if i am in med school, does it still help my sibilings?”
No You’ll be an independent student and won’t be in your parents’ household anymore.</p>
<p>“law school?”
No</p>
<p>When your parents fill out FAFSA, they should indicate that there are two students in college. FAFSA will retain the infor for the to reuse for the other FAFSAs they have to fill out for another student. Each student fills out his/her own FAFSA with the exact same paretnal information if the parents are the same. </p>
<p>So, yes, each college getting a FAFSA will know that there is a second sibling involved, and the EFC calcuation as done by the goverment willl reflect it with 1/2 of the parental EFC appearing for the studen’t tolal EFC .</p>
<p>However, what a school does with that info is up to the individual school. Most school do not meet need so that you have more need may not matter much since the school isn’t going to meet it. And a lot of the more generous schools use PROFILE where the parental cntibuiton is multipled by .6 rather than .5 </p>
<p>Once as student has his/her bachelors, and is in a graduate or professional post baccalaureate program, that student may not be considered a dependent student though some school will allow that student to be considered a dependent in terms of a bit more asset protection allowance given. The way this is handled can vary from school to school.</p>