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Determining Financial Need of Families

  • Examples

    See the processes the Student Financial Services Office goes through to determine cost, need, and financial aid packages by viewing two illustrations of hypothetical students using 2009-10 data.
  • How is Need Analysis Determined

    This site will explain what The College Board uses to determine the family’s ability to contribute to college expenses.
  • Estimating Family Contributions

    This link will connect you to The College Board to get an estimate of the Expected Family Contribution. This is an estimator only, but it does use the same formulas that the Profile uses, it is an estimate because it collects limited data