<p>I can't seem to find any private schools that award need-based aid that only use the FAFSA. The problem is that the PROFILE requires the income of my non-custodial father. He pays his child support and keeps in contact, so I can't waive him, but he refuses to contribute to my college education, making my estimated family contribution far higher than their real contribution (that is, 0).</p>
<p>I know I'll get these responses, so I might as well address them right now:</p>
<p>--"There are tons of great public schools, so why are you limiting yourself to elite private schools?" I'm not, I'm just curious.</p>
<p>--"Keep trying to talk to your dad." Ha ha.</p>
<p>--"Take out a loan to cover the EFC." I'm not sure if people actually suggest this, but the idea came to my head. Unfortunately, in order to take out a loan at 16 I think I'd need one of my parents to cosign. They won't.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Totally unrelated note: I explained my entire situation on my QuestBridge application. Do you think the schools (Princeton, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Chicago) will take it to heart or will they just look at my father's income and burn the application?</p>
<p>Edit: If it's not obvious from the above, my dad is rather wealthy.</p>
<p>You can give it a try. You need to spread your apps among a variety of schools to cover the distinct possibility that none of the PROFILE schools will take your father's financials out of the picture. Usually they will not grant exception because this happens altogether too often.</p>
<p>University of San Diego does not require the Profile. It is a private school that is FAFSA only.</p>
<p>If your dad has the means to pay, it is very likely that a Profile school will expect him to contribute. It doesn't matter whether he wants to contribute...it matters if he can.</p>
<p>By the way, the VAST majority of colleges/universities in the country do not require the Profile at all. Some use their own financial aid forms that ask similar questions to the Profile, but MOST use the FAFSA only.</p>
<p>Less famous or less prestigious schools seem to be the FAFSA only privates- Gonzage & Whitworth in Spokane, WA, Baylor in TX, etc. There are lots, but they are smaller and less well known, keep looking</p>
<p>As someone mentioned before...you can go to the College Board website and there is a list there of the schools that do use the Profile along with their Code numbers. If the school isn't on that list (and MOST are not), they probably don't use the profile. However, you should then also check the school website, because sometimes there ARE changes (schools decide to eliminate the Profile or they decide to add it) each year.</p>
<p>I believe there are only about 400 colleges that DO use the Profile. There are several thousand colleges. Are we really going to list several thousand colleges here for the OP? I suggest he/she check the College Board website for the colleges listed there that DO require the Profile AND then cross check with the college websites for accuracy for this year.</p>
<p>But don't forget that:
1) Colleges that don't take the Profile may still require non-custodial parent information. Many have their own forms.
2) Only a handful of colleges promise to meet 100% of need. Just because a college doesn't require the Profile doesn't mean that the OP will be awarded enough aid to make the school affordable.</p>
<p>Chedva is correct, but in the case of the OP...they want a school where the income and assets of the non-custodial parent (who is very wealthy) will not have to be reported. They should look for schools with a healthy endowment. They should look on the common data set for information regarding the %age of need that is met on average. They should complete a finaid calculator from the college website (if one exists...some schools actually have this). BUT they should also know that any estimates done by the finaid calculator are only that...estimates.</p>
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<p>Are there any schools that promise to cover 100% of demonstrated need that won't take my dad's income into account?>></p>
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<p>We had a thread that asked this question a while back. No one came up with a single school that meets full need without using both custodial and non-custodial parent info. Some didn't require the Profile, but they DID have their own finaid form which asked for pretty much the same information, and from both parents.</p>
<p>Princeton says that if your mom has remarried, they will take your stepfather's income into account, but not your fathers. Same as the Fafsa. They also say they might otherwise waive the requirement to provide your father's information under "exceptional circumstances". I have no idea what those might be. This is a non-Profile school.
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