Enter figures your family already has. A published cost, an official award, and a net price calculator estimate are different kinds of evidence, and this page keeps that label with each school. Year-1 net is tuition, housing, and the other costs you choose to include, minus grants and scholarships. Loans are not a discount.
To decode one letter, use the award letter decoder. To compare letters without this projection, use the award comparison toolkit. How to read letters is in compare financial aid awards. A payment illustration, once you have a loan amount to test, is on the student loan payment calculator.
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A refresh or another page can clear what you typed. Copy the record before you leave. This page does not save family financial information.
How later years are projected
Other costs can include books, travel, or a health charge. Use the same categories for every school. The annual change below applies to the projected net, so it is not a tuition-inflation box by itself.
Schools (up to five)
Enter 0, 50, 1200, 1,200, or $1,200.50. Up to two decimal places. Leave the box blank if the amount is unknown. A typed 0 is a real zero. A school with a blank cost or a blank grant stays in the research record and is not ranked as a finished comparison.
School 1
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School 2
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School 3
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School 4
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School 5
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Comparison
| Place | School | Source | Year-1 net | Four-year projection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A school is ranked only when its costs, grant, source, date, renewal, and research status are complete. Partial cards stay in the copied record. | ||||
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You can copy one school, a partial card, or a finished ranking. Unknown renewal is not turned into a ranked four-year total unless you choose that assumption.