Gina
Remembers the Great DIS Board Crash of '99
- Joined
- Aug 16, 1999
Welcome, Vicki & Erika!
I swear, the more I wade into all this financial aid stuff, the more confused I get... I'm becoming very glad that I'm researching everything now, because it's all so overwhelming!! I can't imagine waiting until the last minute. Yay all of us here, for planning ahead!!
For those of you awesome experienced folks, maybe you can help with this. I read that for every dollar of assets in the student's name, they basically add 20 cents to your EFC -- but as a parent, it's only 2 or 3 cents? Is that right? So if that's true, I'm guessing the way around it to simply transfer anything in his account into one of mine right before I fill out the FAFSA... Seems so dumb to me! Can anyone shed some light on this?
DS is going to take the ACT on June 8th -- anyone else? We were trying to decide between taking the SAT again or him trying the ACT, and after doing some practice questions he thinks he can do pretty well on the ACT. We're just trying to improve his chances for some merit aid at this point. But I tell ya, trying to get him to focus on prepping for the test when he can practically smell the end of the school year is not easy... LOL
How's everyone else doing?
I swear, the more I wade into all this financial aid stuff, the more confused I get... I'm becoming very glad that I'm researching everything now, because it's all so overwhelming!! I can't imagine waiting until the last minute. Yay all of us here, for planning ahead!!
For those of you awesome experienced folks, maybe you can help with this. I read that for every dollar of assets in the student's name, they basically add 20 cents to your EFC -- but as a parent, it's only 2 or 3 cents? Is that right? So if that's true, I'm guessing the way around it to simply transfer anything in his account into one of mine right before I fill out the FAFSA... Seems so dumb to me! Can anyone shed some light on this?
DS is going to take the ACT on June 8th -- anyone else? We were trying to decide between taking the SAT again or him trying the ACT, and after doing some practice questions he thinks he can do pretty well on the ACT. We're just trying to improve his chances for some merit aid at this point. But I tell ya, trying to get him to focus on prepping for the test when he can practically smell the end of the school year is not easy... LOL
How's everyone else doing?