<p>Do schools wait for the CSS Profile before deciding on acceptance? If not, why do some ask for it to be filed in the fall, before we have our income for the year finalized?</p>
<p>If you are applying EA or ED to a school…or are applying for priority consideration for financial aid (scholarships, for example), some of these schools will want your Profile sooner than later. Check your deadlines and don’t miss them.</p>
<p>Also, even for RD, once you’ve gotten accepted, the school does NOT want to wait for your financial aid application “stuff” to be received. They want to start working on that part of your package ASAP. If they waited until acceptance (say for a school with an April 1 notification date), they would have precious little time to get your package to you. How would you be able to compare financial aid packages with such a late deadline for filing finaid applications.</p>
<p>One school says to “file as soon as possible after October 1st”…however, the official deadline isn’t until early next year…so I’m having trouble figuring out how important it really is to get it in now when it will be harder to estimate our income.</p>