Cost of Attendance & Remaining Aid Eligibility Calculator

Cost of Attendance & Remaining Aid Eligibility Calculator

Instructions

Undergraduate Students
To determine your remaining aid eligibility after your departmental funding/student award payment use the calculator below. You will use your financial aid offer from ConnectCarolina to answer the fields below.
1Calculating Need
Cost of Attendance * Required

You can find your cost of attendance on your financial aid offer in ConnectCarolina
- Estimated Family Contribution (EFC) * Required

You can find your estimated family contribution (EFC) on your financial aid offer in ConnectCarolina.
= Calculated Financial Need
This is the total amount our office can offer you in need-based state or university grants, subsidized & institutional loans, and certain outside scholarships. If this number is zero or negative, you do not have calculated financial need. To determine adjustments that may occur due to departmental funding or to know if you will have additional borrowing eligibility use the eligibility calculations in the next step.

- 2Eligibility Calculations
- Need-Based Aid Adjustments
- Calculated Financial Need
- Departmental Funding/Student Award Payments
- Outside Scholarships
- Remaining Aid Eligibility
  Remaining aid eligibility represents the amount of need-based aid (grants, scholarships, need-based loans) that can be offered by The Office of Scholarship & Student Aid AFTER departmental funding, student award payments, or outside scholarships. Remaining eligibility calculated as a negative number represents the amount our office may adjust your need-based aid by. If these awards are reported after your initial aid offer, we will adjust aid initially offered by our office to ensure need-based aid does not exceed your calculated financial need.

- Non-Need-Based Aid Adjustments
- Total Cost of Attendance
  The cost of attendance amount from Step 1 is used to determine changes to non-need-based aid if you are receiving departmental funding, student award payments, or outside scholarships
- Student Award Payment(s)/Departmental Funding
- Outside Scholarships
- Unsubsidized Loans
- Parent PLUS Loan
- Private Loan
- Remaining Aid Eligibility
  If this number is greater than 0, no changes are needed to your existing aid offer. If this number less than 0 (or a negative number), aid initially offered by the Office of Scholarships & Student Aid will be adjusted such that the total aid does not exceed the cost of attendance.