Paying for College, 2022 by The Princeton Review & Kalman Chany

Author:The Princeton Review & Kalman Chany [The Princeton Review & Chany, Kalman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2022-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Third Step: Determine if Any of the Colleges You are Applying to Require the College Board’s Profile Application

Many private colleges and a handful of state schools will require completion of the CSS/Financial Aid Profile form in addition to the FAFSA if one wishes to be considered for institutional aid as well as federal aid. While a PDF version of the FAFSA can be printed and submitted through the mail, the Profile form can only be filed electronically via the Collegeboard.org website. While it’s possible for parents to use the student’s College Board account to complete the Profile, we do not recommend that for a variety of reasons. For example, if the two biological or adoptive parents are no longer living together, the noncustodial parent could view all the intimate financial details of the custodial parent if the student’s College Board account was used for the Profile and the noncustodial parent knew the valid log-in information for that student account. And so, it is best for another College Board “student account” to be created. When creating this additional College Board account—and only for purposes of creating this account and not for purposes of completing the actual (CSS) Profile application—a parent will use their name and all other information pertaining to this step as if they are a “student.” When creating this College Board account only, select “I am no longer in high school” and leave the “Where do you to go to school?” response blank when asked, as well as making sure to leave any parental information blank when creating this alternative College Board account. (The account merely allows one to access all the tools on the College Board web site.) However, after creating this account in their own name, it is important to remember that when filling out actual forms through the Profile, the student name, date of birth, social security number, snail mail address, and financial information must apply to the child seeking aid (and not the parent who merely created a College Board account to access the CSS Profile).

For dependent students, parental information is required on the Profile just as it is on the FAFSA. Yet some students who can be classified as independent students for federal aid purposes via the FAFSA may still find that parental information will be required on the Profile; we’ll get into this later.

But perhaps the most confusing part for children of divorced, separated, or never-married parents who are living apart, is that many colleges requiring the Profile will also require a noncustodial parent to complete their own CSS Profile application. To make things even more confusing, that noncustodial parent will need to first create their own College Board account. And unlike the student and custodial parent who can use the student’s existing College Board account (though we do not recommend that), the noncustodial parent must create their own College Board account (as if they are a student), following our tips above on how to do that to access and complete their own Profile.

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