Wow I consider myself smart and i dont think i understand this stuff!!!!!!

Paying for College
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<p>Ok I have a question about fafsa/css etc pertaining to some schools. My parents are divorced and I live with my mom, brother + sister. My mom is a teacher and makes about 32000 per year and my dad contributes about 20000 in child support per year, we also have nearly zero assets(<1000 in savings). Also my dad disappeared for like 3 years and didnt pay child support and now owes my mom like 50k in backed child support, this is extenuating circumstance i wrote in css extra info area. According to the collegeboard efc both my FM and IM contribution are 0, so im applying to:
uofm (accepted)
boston college
columbia university
cornell university
duke university
jhu
uvm
williams</p>

<p>i will prob. get into bc, jhu, and uvm. cornell and duke are match-slight reach and columbia is reach. My question is what kind of aid will i get from these schools??? mostly loans??? grants??? or what anyone know anything about these specific schools? thanks i just want to know so i can find out if i am gonna have a crap load of student loans on top of being already not well off, some of these schools meet 100% need (is this grant/loan or what) any and all help is soooooo greatly appreciated,
thanks</p>

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<p>bumbity bump bump, i wonder if anyone knows anything on this, if so, i would love to hear it :)</p>

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<p>These are questions for the financial aid officers at the schools you apply to.
I know JHU has a financial aid website you can get to from the main website; why don't you check out the JHU forum here on CC and see the posts on this topic.
You could also try a couple of other EFC calculators, like Peterson's, Princeton Review, finaid.org, etc. and see if you come up with EFC = 0. I bet you do.
PS- It's back-taxes, not "backed" taxes.</p>

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<p>You can find the answers to your questions on each individual school's web site. Take a peek.</p>