{"id":150,"date":"2022-10-20T01:15:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeprepmom.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2022-10-20T01:15:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:15:05","slug":"college-net-price-calculator-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/college-net-price-calculator-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for Colleges With the College Net Price Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As college-bound high school students consider different colleges, it can be helpful to gauge the affordability of the various schools. You can use the college net price calculator to quickly determine how much your family will need to pay for your teen\u2019s potential colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Every college website is required (by federal law) to have this college grant estimation tool on its website. You can find the link for your desired school\u2019s net price calculator on the\u00a0U.S. Department of Education\u2019s Net Price Calculator Center<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0College Board\u2019s Net Price Calculator<\/a>.

You can also google \u201c(school name) net price calculator\u201d or type \u201cnet price calculator\u201d in the search bar of a potential college\u2019s website to be directed to the tool.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With each school\u2019s calculator, you can get the general amount that your family will be expected to contribute towards your child\u2019s college education per year. Basically, the net price is the \u201csticker price\u201d for the college minus need-based grants. (Loans are excluded from the estimate.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The college net price calculators are\u00a0not<\/strong>\u00a0financial aid applications. They are also not a guarantee of financial aid. Rather, it\u2019s a good estimate tool.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For each calculator, you will be asked for some basic family information. Your most recent year\u2019s gross wages and other income (interest, dividend, business, farm, real estate, etc.) information is needed. The most recent year\u2019s assets (cash and investments, business and farm equity, other real estate equity, etc.) will also be required.

Both parent and student income and assets are used in formulating the net price estimate of your family\u2019s costs.\u00a0Estimates include the cost to parents, expected student asset contributions and projected contributions from students\u2019 work during the school terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colleges consider a variety of billed and unbilled costs when calculating their net price estimate. Depending on the college, various costs (tuition and fees, room and board, books, personal expenses, travel, etc.) are taken into account.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Net Price Calculator Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

-Each college has its own net price calculator, so there are slight variations in the questions that need to be answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-If parents are separated or divorced, each parent should fill out the calculator with their personal information. Each parent\u2019s contribution (based on their income and assets) is assessed separately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total estimated net price is usually the sum of the estimates for the two parents. (Remarried parents should not include their new spouse\u2019s\/the student\u2019s step-parent\u2019s income and assets.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Income information (tax forms and other financial documents) will be verified later when you complete the actual financial aid application for each school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-The U.S. Department of Education has a helpful\u00a0College Affordability and Transparency Center site<\/a>. On their\u00a0affordability page<\/a>, you can find information about tuition and net prices at postsecondary institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

-My son Michael ended up having eight potential colleges on his final college list<\/a>. I completed the net price calculator for each of the colleges to get an idea of what our out-of-pocket costs would be.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Michael is very frugal so most of his choices were city colleges with great computer science programs. He also initially put down Columbia (my alma mater) to humor me and New York University (NYU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-All of the NYC city colleges were reasonable \u2013 less than $10,000 per year. Columbia was not super expensive either. I initially thought that the NYU net price calculator was broken because our estimated costs were almost $20,000 more per year than for Columbia. (It wasn\u2019t\u2026)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-I\u2019m happy that Michael wanted to stay in New York. He ended up going to an Honors College. He was really fortunate because we ended up paying less than $100 for tuition this year and he received a free computer as part of the program. (Yes!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If he had wanted to go out of state, I would have encouraged him to apply to a school with a fantastic endowment like Harvard. They kept sending him information and the Harvard financial aid packages are amazing. Our expected family contribution (EFC)<\/a> would have been more expensive than NYC city colleges but less expensive than some SUNY colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to know an estimate of how much grant money your family would likely receive from a particular college, use the net price calculator. I found that it provided pretty accurate information. (You might even end up paying less if your child receives additional merit scholarships.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s free and easy to use the net price calculators so I recommend filling them out for each college that your student is interested in. You might be surprised at the affordability of some colleges that you might assume are outside of your family\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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