<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Although I am not one of those patients of CSS thingy atleast for ED, I seriously think we need to discuss more on it. If you guys know anything or are cognizant of matter/source/info about filling CSS, payment system etc...Plz post it here. i will be a win-win situation for all of CC dwellers.</p>
<p>International students not living in North America do not need to complete the CSS Profile. End of discussion?</p>
<p>Yea…I became totally afraid when I heard about CSS requirement by internationals</p>
<p>Oh guys…don’t think I am foolish enough to be starting this thread for the your generous resoning s above…I am not being offensive but i know what I write…my college requires that even internationals outside of ‘north’ need to send the CSS…</p>
<p>Please help if you know anything more on CSS and about the process of filling it…Anyone who has filled it already,???</p>
<p>Just curious: which college are you attending or applying to?</p>
<p>yea, never heard of this case…</p>
<p>CSS Profile goes global from this year onwards.</p>
<p><a href=“https://profileonline.collegeboard.c…ionServlet.srv%5B/url%5D”>https://profileonline.collegeboard.c…ionServlet.srv</a></p>
<p>I have nothing more to say^^^^> I am completely surprised by this fact that while some guys are panicking over the introduction of CSS from this year onwards for internationals, a handful are still unaware of this fact.
Please, now accept this^ and pay some contribution to this thread by atleast helping …</p>
<p>@ROCKHARDABS
I believe that is because not every college require so, for me, i prefer COF and ISFAA… lol</p>
<p>i cannot get your link, can u make it specific?</p>
<p>I think this is the link ROCKHARDABS was referring to:
[Participating</a> Institutions and Programs](<a href=“https://profileonline.collegeboard.com/prf/PXRemotePartInstitutionServlet/PXRemotePartInstitutionServlet.srv]Participating”>https://profileonline.collegeboard.com/prf/PXRemotePartInstitutionServlet/PXRemotePartInstitutionServlet.srv)</p>
<p>Apparently CSS changed the PROFILE application this year so that it customizes itself to the applicant. That’s why international students can use it now as well. Some posters here did not know about this development because we are not currently applying to colleges. Thanks for keeping us updated on the latest news!</p>
<p>I don’t see why it’s a “stab in the back” though. I just started an application with a foreign address, and if anything it’s easier to complete than the paper financial aid application for international students because the questions are more specific. Do you have any specific questions about the form?</p>
<p>A “stab in the back” would be a form that has international students answer questions phrased for an American audience (“refer to line 31 on tax form 1040”). That’s what I have to deal with when I am filling out the FAFSA every year. For a moment I was thinking that the PROFILE fees might be a burden for some international applicants, but it seems that the PROFILE application waives fees automatically based on the information entered.</p>
<p>lafayette asks internationals to use the CSS Profile. ***</p>
<p>@bigcheese, I have specifically requested the international admission officer to waive me CSS since I was finding it difficult to fill it. And he agreed.</p>
<p>@barium, are you sure that entire fee can be waived for CSS if that is the case of my family income?? And what are the necessary steps for filling one, just register and fill in and pay if required? is that how it goes?</p>
<p>Well, I too was unaware of the fact barium mentioned above. now CSS suddenly seems much more lighter provided that barium’s response is correct. Ill check it. And if I have any problem with it Ill contact you here.</p>
<p>Well, the first couple of pages sound cryptic because they are general questions that everyone gets, and some of them will be US specific (did you receive TANF benefits?). After a while you will get a message that all further questions will be personalized, and that’s when you start filling in actual numbers. Before then it’s just yes/no or where-do-you-live type questions. If something sounds like it doesn’t apply to you, select “no” because you don’t want to submit numbers for that later on.</p>
<p>Just for example, one question I found a lot clearer on the PROFILE form than the paper version was about retirement savings. The paper form says "amount allocated to savings/retirement: ___ ". The PROFILE specificly asks about voluntary retirement contributions. Big difference. </p>
<p>My country has a “retirement tax.” It sounds like this expense should go under amount allocated to retirement, because it will eventually provide a pension. On the other hand, it tricks the financial aid office into thinking that we live comfortably enough to put 25% of our income aside every year. They reason that we can take a break from retirement savings for 4 years and use that money to pay for college instead. But we can’t, because it’s a tax!</p>
<p>Re PROFILE fees, you can complete the PROFILE without paying anything. The system will ask you for a payment when you try to submit your application. But according to Collegeboard’s website, the system will let you submit the form without payment if the numbers you reported are low enough.</p>
<p>But here it says that fee waivers are not available to international students: <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/PROFILE_fees.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>^ I didn’t see that. Never mind.</p>
<p>Let’s hope that colleges expecting international students to use the PROFILE application will provide students with “fee payment codes”…</p>
<p>CSS is more of a pain in the *** !!
I have asked the college to wave my CSS requirements and let me use the ISFAA instead but it hasn’t replied yet… the questions and the forms are really criptic… for us(international students) plus thers no fee waver for it… i mean how do they expect us to pay $9+$16 for each college we apply??</p>
<p>Hey everyone, what if my family doesn’t have tax returns? It seems like they also need to be filed.
Thanks for the reply.</p>
<p>Does your family not have tax returns because they are not used in your country / you were not required to file one, or did you file a tax return and did not keep a paper copy?</p>
<p>In the first case, you can select “did not file a tax return” (however it is phrased) on the financial aid application. In the second one, I am not sure.</p>
<p>Actually there are income tax returns in my country. My family’s income is just not high enough to be taxed :(</p>