FinAid.org question

We filled one out for Stanford 2 years back. You'll have to supply this info eventually if you want to accept financial aid from this institution. Fill it out, and just be honest.

Yes, be completely honest. Because this is an "estimator". The actual bottomline for your son's package would be based on the FAFSA, which the estimator is suppose to closely compare so that the institution can get a guess on what they need to come up with. Meaning, baseball and other monies.

Thanks all for your quick responses. I want to get this stuff back to the college ASAP..I appreciate your input!!

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Smart coach...

IMO coaches who work with the Financial aid department and your numbers this early are way ahead of the curve..

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Some other random thoughts:

- You'll be doing it now based on 2005 income.

- You'll probably have to do it again in February after you get your taxes done.

- When you do it this time you'll get a PIN #. Don't lose it as you can go back and either modify the first one you did or need it for the second run at it. I'm pretty sure they're good forever (the PIN)

- I think there are some unofficial (but accurate) EFC calculators on the web. I think I recall seeing some but the FinAid.org is the official one that the colleges use.

- Not to be sarcastic but do you even know what EFC is and how it pertains to the various scholarships (academic/athletic)? We had no clue when we went through it all this past February but there are some threads around here that discuss it in some detail.

- Ask the coach if you need to do the FinAid.org EFC calculator or if any of them are suitable. The reason I ask is because he's simply trying to find out what your "needs" are (LOL) and a calculator from some other website may be suitable where as the FinAid.org calculator is "official" and would be reported to whatever schools you select during the process (up to 6 I believe).

I think you will find Findaid.org has an estimator vs FASA which is the official Financial Aid calculator used by most schools.