Hi there,
After submitting my CSS profile to one school, some major financial changes happened to my family. How can I edit my CSS profile before submitting it to other schools? I can only see “choosing another university or program”, with no option to edit it. Thank you in advance.
From what I google, you can’t change it but has to contact the college to make the changes.
What financial changes took place? Your income on the 2018-2019 Profile had to be reported from 2016.and your assets had to be reported as of the date you initially filed.
What do you think you can change on your submitted Profile…which can’t be done online anyway? Both of those fields…are done.
If you have had a job loss or some other financial issue…then you will need to ask for a special circumstances consideration. Contact each of your colleges to find out what that entails.
In the event there is something you CAN change on the Profile, you need to contact each school and ask them how they want you to do this.
The major change is that (and I’m not sure if I can actually explain this to college or not), even though my dad has the money, by the time I submitted my CSS profile to my ED school, he wasn’t planning to pay anything for my college tuition fees. Therefore, I didn’t include any assets. But now that he’s convinced to pay for me, I want to include assets that he’ll sell to pay the fees. And because part of the school’s decision is based on my financial background, I need to prove that I can pay so there is a higher chance to get in. I know that this is a familial issue that college shouldn’t be involved in, but I don’t know what to do.
That’s not a major financial change, that’s intentionally misreporting your family finances. You don’t get to pick what financial information to include. Whether or not your dad intends to pay doesn’t matter. If the form asks if he has assets, you have to report them. Contact the college to correct the form.
If your dad had assets on the day you submitted your profile, these were required to be submitted.
If you did not HAVE those assets, then they are not required to be submitted.
I guess…what is the asset he is planning to sell? It is possible that this should have been listed anyway.
It is also possible that it is not yet an asset. For example, if your dad is planning to sell his second car to pay for your college, that isn’t YET an asset.
So…what is he planning to sell?
The problem is that he refused to tell me any information about the lands he owns, that’s why I couldn’t list them accurately. And since I didn’t have the accurate information, I didn’t want to risk writing something false. The assets are lands.
I am so terrified right now because I don’t know how to explain this to college without coming across as a liar.
It’s a “lie” until you submit the correct information. Send the correct financial figures separately to each of the institutions. Once corrected, they likely will not care about the cause of the original errors.
Sorry, I just have one last question, how do you think I should explain it? Like should I explain the whole story and provide the correct information, or should I just say that I made a mistake while filling my CSS profile and these are the correct figures?
Thank you in advance.
People make mistakes on the fafsa and Profile forms all the time.
Are your parents married? If so, the value of the land also needs to be listed as an asset on the FAFSA form.
Real estate your parents own IS an asset…the equity in that real estate is required to be listed on both forms…
It should have been there anyway…even though not sold.
Call the colleges and say you make a mistake and didn’t list some land your family owns on your Profile…the colleges will tell you how to change it.
In the meantime…you also need to amend your FAFSA.