I know that my family will not qualify for need-based aid because of income and assets, so we are not submitting the FAFSA. But I wanted to be considered for merit scholarships at a few schools I already applied to, and am unsure if I am REQUIRED to submit the CSS profile to be considered. These are some schools I applied as Early Action a few weeks ago, and if I get in, I want to receive notification of merit scholarships at the time of admission notification (these schools don’t require separate apps for scholarship consideration.)
I already tried searching on the college’s websites but they didn’t say if you needed to fill it out, so I figured I’d just ask CC. Again, we know we will not qualify for pretty much anything, as we put my two older siblings through college at full price. We only think we need to file it so we can get merit money, but we are not sure how this works because the schools my sisters attended did not offer merit aid (Ivies).
Thank you in advance!