<p>riverruner: I don’t think that’s correct. Schools that are need aware in their admissions process require all parents to fill iout those forms. If the CSS/FAFSA supports that the family is full pay, that kid is then screened in a different pile than the FA kids by admissions. I didn’t understand this myself until a recent FA presentation by a D3 college FA officer at my kid’s school, though I did wonder why full pay friends had to fill those forms out in past years.</p>