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<p>Might the GPs be satisfied with Net Price Calculators? At least if they show no aid? If you’re really pretty sure you’re not eligible, these forms are not fun, and worth avoiding. But, I guess that would depend on whether you’re really highly unlikely to be eligible for aid.</p>
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<p>Yes, we did. Let’s not re-hash it again. I don’t think they will dictate. She is applying where she wants to and they are on board with all of the places she is applying.</p>
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<p>I doubt it, and I don’t think the NPCs are accurate in my case. I am lawyer in a small partnership. So I have a business. A business with no asset value other than current A/R’s, cash in the bank, and a few desks and computers, but I’m betting the FA offices won’t see it that way. I ran GTown’s NPC using my 2012 business income as gross earnings, not business income, and got no aid. I ran UChicago’s but said I had a business worth $10,000 and listed business income of the same amount and it came up with a $10,000 grant. I’ll have to go back and play around with that some more. I’m sure they will say my business is worth more than $10,000. (It isn’t. Law practices today are not marketable. And if I sold my practice, then my income would drop to zero [of course, then maybe I’d qualify for aid.] My current A/R’s and cash in the bank are not “assets,” that’s my income.)</p>
<p>Since the GPs are paying whatever you cant pay, after whatever merit aid your D gets ( as I agree with that sort of set up, she wont be eligible for much need based aid, outside of unsubsidized loans), it will still be worth it to file FAFSA if it is worth it to accept her grandparents funds.</p>
<p>Many of us have to file FAFSA knowing all we will qualify for is unsubsidized loans.</p>