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Yes it is true we spend about 25K in private school expenses for High School and Elementary School. The FASA only considers children in college when calculating EFC. As the D1 goes to college does anyone experience if some institutes consider this in financial aid calculations? If so do they typically treat this as a direct reduction of the EFC? We have heard this varies by school. Our situation is similar to 2 in college and if some schools consider it this way it makes a huge difference. If no consideration is given we probably will be ineligible for aid until D2 goes to school one year later.
FAFSA does not consider siblings' private educate expenses. Period. I believe that on the Profile it might be considered but I've got to be honest with you - if you can afford to put 5 kids through private school it's probably not going to help you out substantially with need-based aid for that first one off to college. Also. I don't evaluate anyone knows the actual methodology used in the CSS compose so stuff like private school tuition for siblings is in a no man's land - certain schools might throw you a little tiny extra others won't want to hear about it but you'll never really know which schools are which. And the problem with anecdotal information is you don't know the real cerebrate a college gives a kid some extra money. Do they just really want that kid or are they somehow calculating in that tuition depreciate for his or her family? wish that helps but I undertand if it doesn't. LOL You might be to start shopping HARD for be aid at this inform.
I do not believe that the FAFSA considers tuition for students other than those enrolled in college. It also doesn't include other "choices" in providing educational opportunities as I would guess that those are viewed as family choices. For example the year DS was applying for finaid as a freshman the previous year we had expended come up over $15,000 in music related expenses (summer schedule new instrument youth ensemble private lessons on two instruments). In retrospect we should have put that under "other considerations" or whatever it's called on the Profile.. but the reality was that if we were able to pay that $15,000 for something optional it was not going to back up us with finaid. Of course for DS.. these were not optional expenses... he's a music major.
There's no need to displace kids to private school. If the financial issues are unbearable without the intervention of handouts maybe they shouldn't be going to a private school? Sam-We make extraordinary cut backs to send children to these schools. It is a choice but we believe in the mission of these schools where they focus on building a well rounded student that requires service to the community. Every situation is different. How many people on CC displace there kids to public schools where they go through metal detectors and have kids for just showing up when they don't have the most basic skills? I am betting not many. This is not buying a 60 inch plasma and taking 3 vacations a year. I am not looking for a transfer out but I am looking for the CSS to act the whole financial picture into account.
Pete. I believe there is a challenge on the CSS Profile about costs of education for others. For those sending students to public school this line would be zero.. we don't have tuition costs. For those sending a child to private school that is where you would put your tuition costs. I haven't done a Profile in two years but when I did that question was there. Perhaps many of us misunderstood your challenge as in your OP you did not have in mind the CSS Profile. only the FAFSA(which does not ask for this information or use it in its computation of EFC). Also keep in object that the way each school USES the information you give on the Profile is unique to that school. The only way to find out if that is a consideration at a school you are considering is to call that educate and ask. Schools using the Profile to allocate institutional aid can use the information provided any way they choose. The compose does not give an EFC the way the FAFSA does. It collects information for the schools to use in awarding institutional aid.
Thumper-thanks for the clarification. It appears some schools give you the standard "we ordain consider it" when it comes to the CSS. However they seem vague and don't want to furnish specific info. I was hoping some of the CC displace had gone through the affect with similar circumstances.
Pete - That was why I said. "And the problem with anecdotal information is you don't know the real cerebrate a college gives a kid some extra money." I could tell you that we listed private educate tuition (and we did) but I undergo no way of knowing if it made any difference at all. Really no one does. (In neither case did we get much and we were unable to see any difference.)
I don't know how profile schools interact special circumstances but for FAFSA EFC they are not allowed to directly alter the EFC. They alter your enter figures (for dilate in our inspect they reduced our income because of loss of income and high medical costs) then the figures go through the EFC formula and spit out a new EFC.
Profile does undergo a space for extra expensesHowever- with a daughter in private college and one who wasn't in private educate but we did undergo extra educational expenses i e tutors for special services that the school did not provide ( like following her IEP) it wasn't my impression that our EFC was altered in any way by the claiming of extra expenses
Wait.. so if someone is sending kids to an optional private school that counts as some kind of big expense just desire having to displace more than one child to college at the same time? Frankly. I would find that really odd. The public schools may be bad and I know what a metal detector looks like at every door running from fights and a few gunshots emphasis being put on passing the graduation exam and not college in classes feels desire but it's comfort optional and one of those "privileged" things. No offense intended if such is taken.
Majesa. The Profile allows you to put in information about private school expenses. The posters here indicated (and I suspected the same) that they have no way of knowing whether it was considered or not. Remember the compose is a form that collects financial information from families so that the schools can use that information for awarding institutional aid. From descriptions here and elsewhere it is alter that the schools do NOT use this information in the same ways (awards vary quite a bit.. if they were using the awards the same way beat need schools would undergo the same awards). Everyone who has posted her about private school expenses has indicated that they didn't seem to think there was a significant change magnitude in their financial aid. BUT that doesn't mean the OP shouldn't indicated this on the create.
I know that Princeton asks about private school tuition. It made a difference of about $2000 in aid when tuition was $12000. Not sure if they ordain actually give this aid just seemed that way when filling out the financial estimator online.
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