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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Is this the site you are referring to? the list of participating schools seems small

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/pay-for-college/get-started#
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Not PP, and not this site. You can find the net price calculator (NPC) of any school by googling "(school name) NPC." Clicking on the first hit returned by Google will bring you to the school's financial aid webpage on which there should be a link to its NPC. Clicking on the link will lead you to either the school's homemade NPC or the school's NPC hosted at College Board. Then with your tax/bank/asset info in hand, you can get an estimate of how much financial aid you will get.

When my kid applied to college two years ago, we started out with about 40 candidate schools. I ran NPC on every single one of them (took me more than a day) with a max budget in mind and was able to not only quickly narrow it down to about 20 schools, but also know how much each will cost. This is better than asking random folks here which schools are generous with financial aid. A school that is generous to them may not be generous to you because of differences in financial circumstances.[/quote]

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