<p>Btw CSS means no ISFAA and COF right?
Thank you.</p>
<p>^ One would assume so. However, check with each of your colleges. Better safe than sorry</p>
<p>So, do I get this right. What we are a doing is giving information about our parents income ect.? </p>
<p>Do they really expect our parents to pay for college? Studie at a university in my country is free, so I don’t think my parents thought about saving money for that. 
Do they also look on how big the family is compared to it’s income?
What would be a good yearly income for the family, for me to be eligible for fin aid?</p>
<p>do you guys realize that Yale just put another required FA forms on their website, the ISFAA? I distinctively remember it wasn’t there before…</p>
<p>and I read through the question on the ISFAA. Aren’t the questions on it pretty much the same as those on CSS?</p>
<p>oops, it turns out I clicked into the wrong session, the one for US citizens and Canadians…</p>
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Yes. In fact, college officials have been referring to international students as “money cows” because we usually pay the full sticker price. Colleges who give financial aid to international students primarily want to boost the intellectual capital of their student body. International students who are considered for financial aid (whether based on need or merit) are expected to perform at the very top of the student body.</p>
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That’s your problem, not theirs.</p>
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If you are considered for financial aid, then yes, they will take the size of your family into account.</p>
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That varies drastically by college. Yale would still consider you for financial aid with a yearly family income of $200,000, while some other colleges expect a family with a gross income of $80,000 to foot the entire college bill.</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>I have got a similar problem regarding parent’s income tax files. My father’s incomes are not taxable! He is in his retirements now…he does not have a employer and does not own any business. Actually his source of income is the stock market (not taxable in our country)… and he has got savings from his previous job which too, was non-taxable!</p>
<p>Can any one please tell me what to do?? :-(</p>
<p>And… can any one please tell me about any other the documents that international students might need to sumbit while filling the CSS?</p>
<p>What the hell is CSS? I thought you were referring to a cascading style sheet.</p>
<p>CSS is somewhat better because it is more specific and there are tips filling the questions, like when I was filing the ISFAA, there is a question about assets, etc - and I filled the entire cost of this other apartment my family owns, but at the same time we do not own the entire apartment, just the half of it, and right when I got to the part of filing the CSS I found out that I had to file only the part we own, but yeah, it was already too late.</p>
<p>Aaaahhh… Good OLE’ days are back…after reading this thread… Well, the college admissions process has ended for me now…and I have to say that I dint care to spend $22 on my CSS…Alteast for this year, all the colleges on my list waived me CSS for ISFAA/COF…</p>
<p>well I did send it only to one school, every other school I applied to did not require it. The CSS was aaaa ok I guess, had some good stuff about it and some really weird stuff due to the difference in systems and all.</p>