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Recipients of need-based financial aid must reapply for each year by completing a new FAFSA. The term and concept of Expected Family Contribution was replaced by the term Student Aid Index (SAI) in 2024. [2] While the minimum EFC was zero, the SAI can be a negative number as low as -1500. [3]
The SAI is a number that estimates the applicant’s ability to pay for college, generated based on the information provided on the FAFSA. Colleges compare an applicant’s SAI with the cost of ...
The Education Department announced an update to the SAI tables that will allow students to benefit from an additional $1.8 billion in aid. (Credit: Getty Images) (Richard Stephen via Getty Images)
Students who are in or entering college -- and their families -- have been through a lot. As if distance learning and canceled activities weren't enough, now they have to contend with the new Free...
To qualify for need-based aid a student must have a significant amount of financial need, which is determined by the federal government based on the FAFSA. Using the information submitted on the FAFSA, the U.S. Department of Education calculates a figure called the Expected Family Contribution (EFC). If the EFC is less than the cost of ...
A PDF file is organized using ASCII characters, except for certain elements that may have binary content. The file starts with a header containing a magic number (as a readable string) and the version of the format, for example %PDF-1.7. The format is a subset of a COS ("Carousel" Object Structure) format. [23]
The FAFSA update is slated to add an additional $1.8 billion in need-based student aid, but colleges and universities won’t receive the new information until March, according to the DOE.
The test yields verbal and nonverbal scores, from which a total score is derived, called a School Ability Index (SAI). The SAI is a normalized standard score with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 16. With the exception of pre-K, the test is administered in groups.