<p>Noncustodial Parent's PROFILE If your parents are divorced or separated, your noncustodial parent will need to complete a Noncustodial Parent's PROFILE online. You will receive instructions by email from the College Board to send to your noncustodial parent, explaining how s/he may complete this process after you have completed your custodial CSS PROFILE.</p>
<p>So if your parents were never married and your custodial parent has married, Harvard does not need the non-custodial parent's form?</p>
<p>somebody please help!</p>
<p>Yes, even if they were never married they generally expect the NCP to submit their financial information. You can ask for a waiver. Sometimes those are hard to get, sometimes not… you’d have to call Harvard and ask.</p>
<p>If your parents were or were not ever married and either or both of them have remarried, you may need to put the info for the spouses of the parents (so that means they want your mom’s new husband’s info even if he didn’t legally adopt you and he’s not your biological parent). YES, they want the info from potentially ALL 4 people.</p>
<p>But what if the noncustodial parents has never done anything and will not take part in the financing of the college education?</p>
<p>*the noncustodial parent</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>You know…there are CUSTODIAL parents who will not take part in financing college. </p>
<p>If the school requires information from your non-custodial parent, you will be required to submit it UNLESS the school tells you that you don’t have to. Contact the school…give them an explanation.</p>
<p>I will say…if the NCP is saying “I won’t contribute”…that will not get you a release for that NCP Profile if the school requires it.</p>
<p>But what if your NCP’s whereabouts are unknown?</p>
<p>You will need to verify WITH THE COLLEGE what their procedure is for a parent whose whereabouts is unknown…and you will need to also verify your lack of contact. Typically this must be done by someone outside of your family…a clergyman, school counselor or the like…who knows and is willing to sign a verification that there is no contact between you and your bio dad. </p>
<p>Call Harvard and ask them.</p>
<p>NOTE TO OTHERS READING THIS THREAD. Good to verify college policies on this sort of thing BEFORE you make a decision to apply to the school.</p>
<p>FWIW, I had a difficult time getting a non custodial waivers (never actually got the waiver). I always put NA for father info. I sent in letters to each FA office stating that my son’s father has never been part of his life and I never got child support and I included a copy of the birth certificate which did not have the father’s name listed. My son was not accepted at any CSS profile school so I guess I’ll never know if my ‘proof’ worked or if it had something to do with why he wasn’t accepted at those colleges. I couldn’t find my son’s father if it was a life or death issue such as needing a kidney or bone marrow transplant.</p>
<p>Are you serious? Oh wow…</p>
<p>That sucks, sueinphilly! On the other hand, MorganSimone, I know a kid who did have (some) contact with his bio father. His parents were never married, his dad left the relationship before he was even born, never paid child support (was never asked to), but did help with some large-ish other expenses (like braces for teeth, and a new computer). This kid’s dad actually first consented to submit his CSS Profile and did send it in, but them flatly refused to help financially with college in any way even though he has a professional job and a decent income. He sent a “tough luck, kid” email to the student and that was the last contact he’s had with his dad… it was about 3 years ago now. He did get a waiver from two highly selective schools, the only two from which he’s asked for a waiver. It may have helped with the second one that the first school had actually done it – a precedent, sort of.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m just saying that it’s definitely worth asking the college about. You may be disappointed by the answer, or you may not be.</p>
<p>Oh okay. Well because I am looking at Harvard’s financial aid info site right now and it talks about submitting a NCP form IF your parents are divorced or separated. It also states that the NCP form is required if your parents are divorced and one or both parents have remarried. However, it never states anything about an applicant whose parents were never married and his/her custodial parent is remarried,.</p>
<p>MorganSimone…your custodial parent will SEE on the Profile that their information is required to complete the form. Ditto the FAFSA. If the custodial parent is remarried, the parent and the step parent info are both required.</p>
<p>Yes, I know that portion already.</p>
<p>Well, I guess what we’re saying is that typically a CSS Profile college will want financial information from both “natural” (biological) parents, and their spouses. If, because Harvard does not specifically identify never-married non-custodial parents, you think you might be able to omit your bio dad’s information, then your only way to know is to call the FA office and ask. Or just try it and see what happens.</p>
<p>I think you’re splitting hairs, since it’s probably not mentioned because it’s not the typical situation of divorced or separated. But I think you’ll find the requirements will be the same. It’s unlikely that Harvard has made some special exception that other colleges have not for cases of never-married bio parents.</p>
<p>Morgan, you got me thinking about your situation…</p>
<p>My son is at a Profile school. My husband and I are his biological parents, we’re married, the usual Ozzie & Harriet deal, but I never changed my last name when we got married. One of our kids has my husband’s last name and one of them has my last name, but they’re full siblings --both our bio kids, just the names are different.</p>
<p>If a student was living with one parent and with that parent’s spouse, but those parents filed jointly, as married, and claimed that student as their dependent, then is there some way a college would know that those parents were not both the bio parents? I mean, you couldn’t necessarily tell just by last names, right?</p>
<p>I’m not advocating any lying, cheating, or fudging, I’m just wondering how it works so that including a non-custodial parent is unavoidable in situations where the custodial parent has remarried.</p>
<p>'Rentof2,I sent you a private message.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>If the stepparent (the one married to the custodial parent) has ADOPTED the child, then no other parent would need to be listed. </p>
<p>Otherwise, it doesn’t matter if the custodial parent is remarried or not. The info from the non-custodial parent will need to be provided if the school requires it…and you can’t get a waiver.</p>
<p>Remember, everything (and I mean everything) is computerized these days. The MOST IMPORTANT THING one can do on any application is to be honest. If your school discovers anything that was not correct and should have been reported…it could be considered fraud and not only would you lose financial aid but could jeopardize your admission as well.</p>
<p>BE HONEST.</p>
<p>Yes, I am not even thinking of even doing that lol. I just needed clarification on what NCP meant because Harvard, for example, only states clearly that they need the form IF the applicant’s parents were married before (divorced or separated). Neither the financial aid website nor application instructions says anything about never married parents with the custodial parent married now.</p>