<p>I realize this is a really strange entry. We have been spending literally days and days filling out the CSS profile. Basics - a family adjusted gross income of about 100K. We live in New York City, a very expensive city, where despite making what seems like a huge amount compared to many Americans, we are actually going into pension funds to pay for some things this year. Some schools count your house, some don't. We own a coop, but the carrying charges (called maintenance) is more than a third of our income. 37,000 dollars. But it is not a mortgage. We are old parents, 66 and 62, so it's not like we can easily take out a new mortgage and expect to pay it back, and we had about 15,000 unreimburst medical expenses this year. We don't have a clue how the schools are going to view our "house", really an apartment, or our pension, or anything else. New York is a world unto itself, and no one outside of here really understands it, and one of the schools we are sending the form to is in Minnesota. We don't even own a car, or a washing machine or dryer, yet on paper, because of the value of our apartment we could be seen as millionaires, yet it is an apt our family has lived in for 53 years and I remember when it's rent was 168 dollars a month. Any clues how the various schools will look at us.</p>