<p>When I did the CSS profile, I had to estimate my figures to meet the deadlines. I got my tax returns back this week. The figures are only off by one or two thousands, but should I still: </p>
<p>Collegeboard says "If any of your information has changed significantly, it is not possible to make changes or to add to your online application now that it has been submitted."
-Like I said, the changes are only off by one or two thousands, but should I still send hard copies of the corrected application to my colleges with a copy of my '07 tax returns?</p>
<p>-Send a hard copy correction to IDOC when I send my verification information?</p>
<p>-When I'm filling out the Student Non-tax filer's statement, what do I put on the "Source of Income" section if I never had a job?</p>
<p>My info changed by less than two thousand but I still printed out a hard copy and made corrections by hand. Luckily, only one of my schools required the CSS so I only had to print and mail one copy. It was 13 pages though!</p>
<p>Call the schools. I called MIT and they said that it wasn't necessary if it is close enough to my FAFSA. Just send in the new tax returns to IDOC and they'll take those into consideration since they know that students had to estimate to get the CSS in by the deadline.</p>
<p>We had to fill out the CSS for the first time for one of my son's prospective schools by 1/15. I used prelim numbers. The FAFSA was due 2/1, by which time I had all the numbers. I emailed the school and asked if I needed to correct the numbers on the CSS and they said no, they would get them off the FAFSA. So why did we have to spend $25 filing the CSS????? Couldn't they have waited another two weeks and gotten them off the FAFSA?</p>
<p>because they work with collegeboard to eat your money.
personally, i find it quite ridiculous and repetitive that some schools want your fafsa, your css, AND in addition to those, they have their own forms WHICH might i add, ask the same information that is covered by css and/or fafsa</p>
<p>someone wanna explain to me why? i'm extremely curious.</p>
<p>I thought it was odd that the school asked for our religion on the CSS. Yet they say that they don't discriminate on all that stuff. Obviously, they do with their FA.</p>
<p>If a school has a religious history, there may be some endowed need-based scholarships for those of the particular religious background. For example, Muhlenberg College is loosely affiliated with the Lutheran Church (I say "loosely" because the Jewish population at Muhlenberg is larger than the Lutheran). It has several restricted grants, created by particular donors, limited to members of the Lutheran church. (To be fair, of course, they have a number of other restricted grants for residents of particular counties, members of churches, preparing for specific careers, etc.) But something similar may be why a school would ask for one's religion.</p>
<p>Mizzou, My son applied to one school last year where he definitely was a URM if they were considering religion and ethnicity. I don't know if that school considers those in their admissions. I can tell you that my son did just miss a merit scholarship if one were going strictly by the numbers (a chart was on their website). He was offered that merit award anyway, which was a pleasant surprise. I will never know if the religious and ethnic diversity had anything to do with it because my son also had a lot of community service. That school values community service a lot, and it is considered very important to them.</p>