Can your assets be hurting your potential for financial aid. Here we aim to set the foundation to helping you optimize your expected family contribution aka EFC. An optimized EFC will help you become more aid eligible. We are giving you a quick lesson on Assets and the Asset Protection Allowance aka APA. There are 2 types of assets…Qualified & Non Qualified. We will quickly go over the assets that can negatively impact your EFC at most colleges when using the Federal Methodology to calculate your need for aid. Knowing what assets will be assessed and the impact those assets will have on your college cost will be very helpful when planning. We will give you some tips and tricks to improve your situation in an upcoming video. What you don’t know can cost you!