<p>Do you itemize deductions? Did you have any kind of a loss last year? If so, is it entered on the CSS Profile with a - sign before the number?</p>
<p>Yes, we itemize. No loss, but hardly any gain at all. Pay quarterly, and will be getting a refund.<br>
I spoke with someone at S’s school, who told me what previous posters did, which is to write the figure we paid this year, not what we owed at tax time. Are you going to stick with zero?</p>
<p>I already completed mine and it went through with 0 – I used the numbers from my 1040. As I said, I plowed right past the error message and it seemed to work. </p>
<p>It really doesn’t matter to me because I know my daughter’s college will end up looking at the 1040 and pulling the numbers from there, no matter what I put on the forms. They’ll turn around and make their own corrections to FAFSA if numbers don’t agree. </p>
<p>My daughter will be a senior next year. This is the last time I ever have to deal with the stupid CSS Profile or FAFSA !!! Right now it is all behind me, except the part about nagging my recalcitrant ex-husband into filling in the noncustodial parent forms … and then the wait to see what the school comes up with. My daughter’s college likes to tell us our financial award in mid-July, so that I have plenty of information well in advance of my fall tuition payment due at the beginning of August (NOT!). To make things easier for this year, daughter’s daughter has decided yet again to change the way it handles student lending – this way, both me and my daughter will emerge from her 4 years of study with the joys of dealing with making payments to 3 separate lenders. (I’ve even got a 4th, thanks to my son).</p>