EFC Calculator Report

A source titled “8 mistakes parents make when they help kids apply to college” from the huffington post says parents don’t think about the cost of college before applying. This means they just let students apply to the schools they want and worry about paying for them later. Parents don’t use the EFC (estimated family contribution) calculator before applying to colleges. This makes students waste money on applications which is on average $37.88 per application. Parents who do use the EFC calculator also make the mistake of understanding how much they can afford and how much money they need to get from grants scholarships and loans. Parents are the people in charge of how to pay for college. When they don’t know how to use the EFC calculator
In 2013 the common application website crashed and CNN reported what happened, and how the organization and college addressed this problem.. The site crashed just as “hundreds of thousands of early applicants got to work” CNN says. The crash could be described as a “nightmare”. CNN says that “The nonprofit common application organization which serves more than 500 colleges, blames the problems on software upgrades”. The nonprofit organization did claim they worked nonstop on fixing the website and some colleges did extend their early action deadline for the students having technical difficulties. However the common application organization didn’t show too much concern for the students. Their official twitter account tweeted “We’ve implemented changes to clarify processes surrounding print preview” and “aware some users are experiencing problems with the PDF previews.” These tweets were not helpful at all they gave no information on when the website would be fixed and used confusing words this could only confuse most students. All the students affected by the crash were all students who were prepared to apply early. At this point it is not the students or parents fault it is the websites fault. All the students were prepared to submit their information and had it all set. It is understandable for a big website to crash however as CNN argued, “Surely the common application tested this software” and “surely they knew they were dealing with stressed-out students”. The common application new the seriousness of their program and the tweets that they sent didn’t show they were too concerned about those stressed out students. It is clear that the common application didn’t invest enough time with this updated website which they should have because thousands of students rely on that website to work properly. Students can’t display all their hard work to colleges simply because of