I do not have national merit status. My PSAT score was pretty meh (1340). I have checked all the schools on my list for whether they require non-custodial info. I took that from the college board page on participants in CSS and checked the column for non-custodial form requirements. The only schools that immediately interested me from that list were Princeton and Vanderbilt (Princeton requires non-custodial parents but not their spouses). All the other privates on my list require it. The public schools in Minnesota all seem to be FAFSA only, so not a problem there. @merc81 I am focused on schools good for CS that would prepare me well for grad school (MA or PhD). Should I focus more on LACs and research unis than some of the technical colleges like Rose-Hulman I listed? Or am I misguided altogether here? I have only run the net price calculator from the College Board site. I’ll see about doing some of the other schools. Thanks for the advice.