(Off the link HRSMom posted)
Well, it looks like you could still get something but you may have lost out on your full aid…and more importantly, you may not know what you are getting until after May 1st. This makes it hard to make an informed decision.
I hope others reading this thread in the future, take note and don’t miss FA deadlines.
@gearmom I think it means if you are a freshman now, the CSS is gone as it relates to this acedemic year? That was how i read it:
For those applying after fall quarter of the academic year for which you need assistance, please note that the CSS PROFILE application is available only until February 15.
If @ClaremontMom is right, you might have to pick Plan B and pay your deposit. If Stanford comes back affordable then you can always melt but you do lose the deposit. Can’t be helped.
Does OP get to wait on Stanford FA past May 1? Or do they have to commit or move on to #2?
I did a double check and my css did send to stanford so i guess that means its available?
The OP would have to ask Stanford for an extension to commit. BUT if she does that…honestly, I can’t see how she could deposit at another school before May 1.
I hope Stanford gets her an award before May 1…or one of the other colleges…because it sounds like she didn’t submit the Profile to other schools as well.
@floraha Princeton’s does NOT use the CSS Profile. Princeton has its own FREE financial aid form in addition to the FAFSA. Did you complete all the forms for Princeton?
What about Columbia?
Or did you just wait and not submit the Profile to any of the schools to which you applied.
And please please don’t tell us that your parents are divorced and you will also need to get a non-custodial profile submitted as well (not to Princeton…they don’t use the Profile).
basically what i did was got the fee waiver for 8 schools from CSS, then contacted all FA offices for extra waivers, got those, then i took a look at the rest of the schools i had left. the harvard and oberlin offices said i dont have to send CSS until after I’m officially accepted so i didn’t send those, then sent the remaining CSS to schools that were matches that i would most likely attend, filled out my Princeton form and left the rest. i finished my fafsa for all schools
my parents are not divorced
Princeton’s estimate was really good, pretty sure it will be comparable to columbia because of the no penalty rule for late FA applicants so i guess i got that?? my parental contribution will still be 0 because of the 65k thing for Stanford
the real killer is that i got waitlisted by my matches and accepted by my reaches LOL
@floraha So you did send your financial forms to Stanford and received nothing at all?
@gearmom i sent them the day i got accepted and my axess says “no award letter to show”
i keep sending my tex returns via IDOC and it keeps saying “incomplete” why why why
@floraha So you sent the CSS late and just hoped for the best? What unis do you have a full ride to?
Just chill. You have until May 1st to commit to any one of those college and you will have an answer from Stanford well before that time. You’re in a pretty good spot if your worst-case scenario is that you end up attending Princeton instead of Stanford.
@calmom -the point of this thread is that the OP may not hear back from Stanford before May 1. OP didn’t submit FA work until now and the Stanford website states that late FA, while accepted, could mean less FA and possibly not in time for the May 1st deadline. Can you explain why you think OP will hear “well before that time”?
The OP said that she has now submitted documents to Stanford. (“I already sent everything in the minute I found out I got in”)
Today is April 3.
OP apparently is low income, -0- EFC or close to that (given Princeton’s award), so the documentation can’t possibly be very complicated.
It’s not rocket science.
Stanford has the FAFSA & the documents OP has now submitted.
Stanford meets 100% need for all students. So they just have to run the numbers.
I’d expect that OP would hear back by the end of this week.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I can’t imagine that Stanford’s financial aid office is so badly mismanaged that they can’t run the numbers and provide an award in the 4 weeks remaining of this month.
Why would it be more complicated than that?
To the OP…you say you are having trouble with IDOC?
Did you already submit documents to IDOC for any other colleges?
You said you had TEN colleges ON your Profile…were those submitted? What schools?
It sounds like you will have a decent option by the end of April.
The only thing that has happened is that she has been admitted to Stanford but does not yet have an award, and is not sure whether or not Stanford has all needed paperwork.
This is NORMAL. It is common for financial aid awards to be delayed for various reasons, including lost or incomplete or delayed paperwork. Happens all the time, and is NOT a huge deal.
@floraha Just call or email the financial aid office to confirm that they now have what they need, and ask when you can expect an award.
I honestly don’t know why people are giving you a bad time over this. This is really a trivial problem that is likely to sort itself out in a few days time if you just wait.
The only reason I’m telling you to call is so that you can at least get info from an official source.
Relatively speaking, it may be a “trivial” problem when dealing with Stanford, a school with a huge endowment and a financial aid program that is perhaps one of the most generous in the country. At a less generous school that has to be more careful about how and when it allocates financial aid dollars on a tight budget, OP would probably find herself in a different position. In any event, doing what OP did in order to save $16 is not recommended. In OP’s case, spending the $16 before the FA deadline would have alleviated the stress and anxiousness she is experiencing now.