<p>Unlike FAFSA, I heard CSS does not allow you to use estimated numbers and put exact numbers later. So should I wait until my parents get 2009 tax return?</p>
<p>You can send it with estimated numbers. What you can’t do is then go back in and change them online and resend them to the same schools. You will have to print out your original version, make corrections by-hand on it and send the hard copy into the college financial aid offices directly – not send it back to the CSS Profile/CollegeBoard.</p>
<p>Main thing –> Don’t Miss the Schools’ FA Filing Deadlines! Use estimated numbers if you have to, but don’t miss deadlines.</p>
<p>I cant find NYU and Rochester Institute of Technology.</p>
<p>Are you sure they require the CSS Profile?</p>
<p>NYU does not use the Profile (unless they added it this year…). Fafsa is what they use.</p>
<p>Looks like RIT does not use the Profile either. They use the FAFSA and a RIT finaid application form.</p>
<p>go to each website…go to financial aid. You should be able to find what the school requires AND the deadlines for submission. Send what they ask you to send…and on time.</p>
<p>Requirements vary by college so check each one.</p>
<p>oo i didn’t know it.
Thank you~</p>
<p>rent - does that mean we have to resubmit the CSS form to all schools after the tax returns? or just to the ones we got admitted into?</p>
<p>I had to consult with our accountant to do my d’s css form-- and yes, do them for all the private schools that take them- before you get acceptances.</p>
<p>Confusedandlost, after your taxes are done you can take a printed copy of your CSS Profile and make changes by hand (cross out incorrect figures, write in corrected figures) and send them directly to the financial aid offices at the schools. You will want to do this before acceptances, because presumably you want to know what you final financial aid award will be in order to make an informed choices as to where you want to attend.</p>
<p>The colleges, too, would probably appreciate having accurate information for the purposes of balancing their own FA funds in terms of how much student need they can fill.</p>
<p>Obviously if your adjustments are small because your estimates were accurate it becomes less pressing. When I did my first CSS Profile my estimated numbers were really close to what the numbers turned out to be after our taxes were done, so I never even sent a corrected CSS Profile to the school. You can call the schools you’re applying to and ask them how they want you to deal with this.</p>
<p>I heard you get more benefit if you finish FAFSA earlier.
what about CSS PROFILE?
do i need to hurry?</p>
<p>You don’t necessarily get more benefit by filing the FAFSA earlier. In limited cases schools may have certain funds that are distributed to the earlier apps first, but basically you just really want to get all you financial aid apps (FAFSA, CSS Profile, and any individual forms the schools themselves may require) by the priority application deadlines of each particular school.</p>