<p>Harvard may require FAFSA, but it is only useful for $0 EFC students. If you have an EFC of $2,000, then they will give you $2,000, but then that reduces federal aid by $2,000. Thus your need is $2,000 more, and so on, and so on, and so on.</p>
<p>I’m guessing if you tell them you don’t want to file the FAFSA, but will file the CSS, they may be accommodating for higher earning families.</p>