CSS Profile: Divorced Parents

Paying for College
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Hello,
My parents are divorced and I am doing their CSS profiles (which should be separated)
Do I need a 2nd College Board account to fill the two of them? Is there a way I could do both CSS Profile with the same College Board account?

Thanks

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You shouldn’t be completing the Profile for the non-custodial parent.

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But The college I am applying to requires it I think

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What I mean is this: if the college you are applying to requires a non-custodial Profile form from a non-custodial parent, that form should be completed by the non-custodial parent, not the applicant or the custodial parent.

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BTW, The college I am applying to is Harvard, I have received the likely letter few days ago

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First, check with the schools you are applying to and make sure they require the non-custodial parent’s information. Then, when your custodial parent fills out his or her part, there will be a place to provide the non-custodial parent’s information, including email address. When custodial parent is finished and the profile submitted, the non-custodial parent will receive an email with instructions on providing his or her information.

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Ok thank you!!

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You actually don’t have to check with the school to confirm whether or not your school(s) require non-custodial parent info; the Profile is designed to automatically notify the non-custodial parent for you if a given school requires said info.

Institutions requiring Profile complete a School-Options-Form each year designating processing requirements and preferences. When you complete the Profile and indicate on the Parents Information pages that your parents are divorced, one of the information fields you have to complete is the email address field for the NCP (non custodial parent). Later, after you submit your completed Profile, an email will be sent to your NCP notifying him or her that one of more the schools on your list requires NCP household info. The email will also include a link for him/her to follow to complete an NCP Profile. When he/her completes the Profile, it will ask about your information so that when he/she submits his/her Profile, the system will be able to match up the two Profiles for you case.