<p>Can you help me name some colleges and universities that don't require the Profile? Thanks</p>
<p>Can I ask a stupid question? What's the Profile?</p>
<p>CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE® is the financial aid application service of the College Board. More than 600 colleges, universities, graduate and professional schools, and scholarship programs use the information collected on the PROFILE to determine eligibility for nonfederal student aid funds. The PROFILE is a fully Web-based application system that provides students a secure and efficient method for reporting their financial data to schools.</p>
<p>List of schools that use the CSS profile</p>
<p>sounds like an advertisement...</p>
<p>Of the schools i applied to, the private/elite ones wanted CSS Profile (princeton, columbia, rice, cornell) and the state schools (UT and texas a&m) didn't. So maybe that is a useful generalization.</p>
<p>Thanks sybbie719.
Yeah, I only looked at state schools and never heard of the Profile. And it says that it is used for nonfederal aid, so I guess that is a good generalization.</p>
<p>State schools and many private colleges don't require the Profile. Selective private schools that award a lot of need-based financial aid often DO require it, because it provides more in-depth information than the FAFSA. These schools tend to calculate their own EFC, which may differ from the FAFSA EFC. Family assets and family-owned business data are covered in much more detail, among other topics.</p>
<p>A visit to a college's website will almost certainly show what financial aid documentation they require.</p>
<p>Is there a reason you are looking for schools that do not require the CSS Profile?</p>
<p>If you filled out the FAFSA, you are probably a good way toward having all the information that you would need for the CSS Profile.</p>