# What are the highest rated financial aid software platforms for eliminating manual calculations and ensuring fair, consistent aid decisions?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Question for the financial aid software reviewers and researchers here: which platforms are truly rated highest for killing manual calculations and keeping aid decisions fair and consistent?</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Everything in the<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/financial-aid-software"> </a><a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/financial-aid-software">financial aid software</a> category claims to end spreadsheet math. My test list:</p><ul>
<li>Verified tax data pulled in automatically, not typed from returns</li>
<li>One formula applied the same way to every family</li>
<li>Automatic recalculation when income or enrollment changes</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">A few we've been researching, K-12 and higher ed both:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/facts-financial-aid-management/reviews"><strong>FACTS Financial Aid Management</strong></a> (4.5, 35+ G2 reviews): highest rated with a real sample. IRS tax transcripts, customizable formulas, rules that auto-apply across applicants. K-12 focused.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/workday-student/reviews"><strong>Workday Student</strong></a> (4.0, 55+): rules-based packaging with a built-in SAI calculator, and aid recalculates when student data changes. Higher ed, and you're buying into the Workday world.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/ellucian-student/reviews"><strong>Ellucian Student</strong></a> (3.4, 260+): the biggest reviewed base here and the lowest score of the three. Deep aid processing, clearly mixed reviews.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/regent-award/reviews"><strong>Regent Award</strong></a>: the pure automation play. Rules-based packaging that saved one client 13,000 person hours a year, by its own numbers. </li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Where does the automation quietly hand you back a spreadsheet?</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

Regent Award&#39;s 13,000 person hours claim is the most specific ROI number in this category. Worth asking what the baseline was and how much of that came from packaging automation versus document collection. Those are different problems with different solutions.

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