Strong student/Weaker college=more money?

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To give you an idea, Pomona College costs in the 40,000 range. About twice what it costs at the averagae University of California campus. However, one of my colleagues has a son and a daughter who have attended there for less than it would have cost them to attend a state funded UC campus.

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<p>What about the family EFC? Does that matter?</p>