Vanderbilt U

<p>Looking over the Vandy website, it appears they do not consider non-custodial income. But...it does say that the FAFSA and CSS profile are required and other additional information "may" be required. Does anyone have personal experience with the financial aid there? D is looking for additional schools that will only require our household income (mine and her stepfathers) and NOT include bio Dad's income which puts us out of the running for most financial aid in the northeast schools that are more/very selective. If in fact they do not require NCP or a form of their own that will assess bio Dad's income we are considering EDII because the EFC is within our budget. Would love some insight as this school just came into our vision and we've both spent many hours today looking at the website and considering a visit. Thank you.</p>

<p>i don’t have any experience with Vandy’s aid, but I wonder if they are leaving the door open to consider NCP info after a situation that happened about a year ago. </p>

<p>A student was receiving full aid because of her CP (her dad?). Then her low-income CP died, and suddenly she had to use her NCP’s income (who was now her CP). Suddenly she qualified for NO aid, which probably was a wake-up call to Vandy that they probably shouldn’t have been giving full aid to a student who had an affluent NCP. lol</p>

<p>This is just speculation…I don’t know what Vandy will do now. </p>

<p>This is a case where you should call or email Vanderbilt’s [Office</a> of Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.vanderbilt.edu/financialaid/]Office”>Office of Financial Aid | Vanderbilt University) so you can get a definitive yes or no answer. </p>

<p>I do intend to call tomorrow but I was hoping I could learn about some first-hand experiences here on CC as well. We would never apply ED without knowing beforehand that the EFC is in budget with room for differences. And there’s still much research to be done before that happens anyways.</p>

<p>I have personal experience. Their standard approach is not to request nor consider ncp’s finances. So if Vanderbilt is a good fit for your daughter she shld definitely apply–assuming the efc is within your budget (meaning yours and stepdad’s combined).</p>

<p>Thank you very much goodenoughparent, that is fantastic news. Now to research more fully. At this late stage, I’m not sure we can visit but Vandy might be her only affordable option for a top tier school. Today she should receive several EA decisions, two from what we hope are financially affordable safety schools and then we can move forward depending on both those results and her newest SAT results due on 12/23.</p>

<p>I also have experience with this. For both kids, exH (NCP) had to supply his tax returns as part of the Profile for freshman year only and we also had to answer a question regarding our divorce decree’s handling of higher ed costs. H has substantially higher income than I do, but they evidently relied on the agreement which indicated his responsibility was limited to covering COA at our state flagship. </p>

<p>Darn. Its not a problem about the agreement, the only thing he is responsible for is child support until age 21 or finish of college. But we wanted to do EDII possibly and that will make the financial package unpredictable. I think I’ll call them or email them and have something in black and white to fall back on if needed.</p>

<p>I just got off the phone with the financial aid counselor at VU and she told me the non-custodial parent’s income would NOT be considered and that the figures obtained through the NPC would be a good estimate. Now, keep your fingers crossed that the newest SAT results put D in the 50 percentile for CR (she’s already there for the other two sections).</p>