<p>hi, i will obviously be filing FAFSA, but i'm wondering if it's even worthy to send a css profile to harvard and princeton, where i would be eligible for their automatic grants for families under the 60,000$-income level.</p>
<p>also, does anyone know if the following privates even consider css important?</p>
<p>harvard
princeton
brown
columbia
Upenn
cornell
johns hopkins
northwestern
stanford</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>You have no choice to but to fill it at. Schools either REQUIRE them or not. Income is not the only thing considered. If your parents own a home or have investments, the profile goes into depth.</p>
<p>check if they require it and if they do fill it out. that can only help wont hurt.</p>
<p>I agree you don't have a choice; if they do require the Profile, the school may require it for both merit and need-based aid. It's easy enough to check to see if you school requires it: here's the list from the collegeboard of all of the schools and programs that require it:</p>
<p>So the answer to your question is all of these schools require it. It'll cost you $18.00 per school plus the $5.00 registration fee. (This is the reason we stayed away from schools that require it.)</p>
<p>I did it for Chapel Hill, but just for the possibility of a laptop grant. :)</p>
<p>icic, well i guess ill get to that rite now then.
see, i thought "participating" only meant that the schools allow us to submit an optional form and that they're doing us a favor by accepting one.
anyways, thanks a lot guys</p>
<p>Actually profile usually hurts as it takes more assets into account.</p>