<p>Your parents must have filed a Federal Income Tax return for 2010, regardless of who owns that business. </p>
<p>If you do apply to private schools that use the CSS PROFILE, you may be asked about vehicles that your family owns. A luxury vehicle is one of those “life style choices” that the financial aid office will then be aware of. Should you appeal your financial aid package from that school & ask for more aid, then that life style choice of a new luxury car might result in no further aid being granted. The point of course, that money spent on that luxury vehicle could have been used for college tuition.</p>