<p>Sybbie - yes I have seen that grid too. We have a total family efc of about 45k, and my son will be my second kid in college. Adding him to the equation worked out to an efc of 25 or so per kid (I really don’t know why it goes up when “split in half” but it does). Our experience with need based aid starts this year - my daughter has a merit scholarship at her school so we have been ineligible for any additional aid.</p>
<p>Without looking at the grid again, I recall that my son had either about a 98% chance of getting grant aid, or a 58% chance, if you choose to go by his test scores or his class rank. I would guess they average the two a bit, so it should be somewhere in the 75% range, but who can tell. The “financial aid” letter he recieved from BU specifally stated that they didn’t have enough grant funds available to offer it to every candidate, so they weren’t going to offer any to him. In other words, we don’t want you!</p>
<p>I thought about calling them and questioning the decision, but truthfully if they are going to be so cavelier with him, he has other schools that are equally good choices and are making a full court press to get him to attend.</p>