<p>I think that for SOME students, some scenarios, the expected contribution for some schools will be the same as the FAFSA EFC, except for the student required contribution even for a PROFILE school. But that usually means no NCP in the picture, no home equity, no owned business, no other thing that is treated differently on PROFILE than on FAFSA. That can happen in some situation. Also student assets and some types of parental assets are treated differently on PROFILE than on FAFSA. Heck, in some situations, one can get a LOWER expected contrib from PROFILE than FAFSA (some schools take sibling private school costs into consideration) due to special factors. </p>
<p>But over all, the NPC comes out more than FAFSA EFC for most people. </p>