<p>What would happen if someone missed the early action deadline to submit the CSS profile? Would they not get financial aid? Or can they submit it later?</p>
<p>Deadlines are often soft, as long as you’re not soooo late. Just call the school (or a school) and ask; they’ll tell you.</p>
<p>Folks, deadlines are deadlines. It is not up to the submitters to decide that deadlines are soft. In fact, submitters should understand that the word is “dead” lines for a reason. After that date, the thing is dead. If a deadline is soft, it is very lucky, and probably rare, and up to the recipient. Therefore, learn to obey deadlines. It is one of the most important life skills you can have.</p>
<p>Schools want top candidates more than they want adherance to a postmark. So instead of giving up because you think you are too late, call the school and ask. Every time I have asked on behalf of a student, it has never been too late.</p>
<p>Call the school and ask. BUT check EVERY OTHER DEADLINE you have and try to meet them. I do believe some schools will provide SOME leniency…but not all will. AND it also depends on just how late you are and when you hope to receive information. </p>
<p>For example…if the school notifies students of ED admissions and finaid on December 1, I think a school would be hardpressed to process your LATE application if you asked about it on November 20…kwim?</p>
<p>I thought that financial aid information for ED and EA were just estimates?</p>
<p>I submitted my CSS Profile for my EA application five days late, but I haven’t been too worried about it because I thought that the actual offer wouldn’t be made until the spring.</p>
<p>They’re tentative awards, serenefire, but they still take a certain amount of time to process by the FA office. It may not be a problem for you at all, but it would be ill-advisd for another student to take your answer to mean that any school will be leniant on the deadlines for one reason or another. A school could take a late application and process it just like those that arrived on time, or they could just chuck it out because it came in a week late. Some schools are so inundated with applications that any means of thinning them out bit is a useful tool.</p>
<p>Sometimes missing deadlines can’t be avoided due to websites freezing/crashing, or a serious accident or illness, or whatever. But missing a deadline just because a student or parent decides the deadline isn’t meaningful… well, good luck to 'em, but it seems like something that isn’t worth risking.</p>
<p>The financial aid award for Early Decision may be an estimate…BUT it is the one that the student and family will have when they get (hopefully) an acceptance. How can the student determine if they can pay the bills if they do NOT have an early estimate of aid. Most of these ED schools use the PROFILE. It MUST be ACCURATELY filed using estimates by an early priority deadline in order to be processed in time to go with the acceptance.</p>