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CSS Profile

CSS Profile® gives you accurate, timely, and complete financial information about your applicants on a schedule that works for your institution. CSS Profile lets you:

• Identify students who need your institutional funds to enroll.
• Use the College Board’s Institutional Methodology (IM) to award your private funds.
• Get comprehensive financial aid applicant information that coordinates with your schedule to make the right decisions at the right time.
• Estimate eligibility for federal and state funding to fully understand the student’s need for assistance.
• Communicate early with applicants about potential aid eligibility.

The College Board Financial Aid Services has pioneered need-based financial aid solutions for over 60 years. CSS Profile is designed by and for aid administrators to manage the financial aid process in a cost-effective and efficient way. To determine eligibility, css profile uses Institutional Methodology. Each application is concise and easy to use. It’s customized for each student.

CSS Profile benefits

Online application access virtually 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so students meet your institutional deadlines

• Flexible options that allow you to adjust the formula for need-based aid
• Applications tailored to all families, including divorced or separated parents
• Information about special circumstances, so you can evaluate the need for additional funds before an appeal
• Early information about students from low-income backgrounds

Free CSS Profile for qualified students based on an automated fee waiver eligibility check. Nearly 400 colleges, universities, professional schools, and scholarship programs use CSS Profile to award their aid funds equitably to the right students at the right time.

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Complete the Application

Remember — you do not need to complete the application all at once. You are able to save your application and return to it later.

Preparing to Apply

Review Getting Started and our tutorials to understand what you may need to have available to complete the application. For information and instructions in Spanish, review en Español.

Sign In

If you created a College Board account for the SAT, PSAT or AP, use the same username and password to sign-in. If not, create a new account. To sign-in, use the buttons on our home page and select the appropriate year you are applying. Custodial parents will use the same account as their student. Only noncustodial parents will create a separate account — learn more about creating a noncustodial account on our Profile for Parents page.

Start the Application

The application provides online help to guide you. You do not need to complete the application all at once; you can save your application and return to it later.

Submit the Application

Once complete, submit your CSS Profile application. The submit date and time is based on Eastern Time. If necessary, you will pay your application fee when you are ready to submit.

Remember: The CSS Profile is free to domestic undergraduate students whose family income is up to $100,000. Read more about Fee Waivers. If you do not receive a Fee Waiver, the fee for the initial application is $25. Additional reports are $16. Payment may be made via credit or debit card.

Review Your Dashboard

Your dashboard includes your payment receipt and any next steps, such as uploading documents through the Institutional Documentation Service (IDOC). You may also add additional schools at any time by clicking on “Add a College or Program.”

Made a Mistake?

Don’t worry! If you made a mistake on your application or need to include additional information after you submit, you can update your application by clicking “Correct Your CSS Profile” on your Dashboard. Corrections are available by late November each year.

Questions?

We’re here to help! Chat live or speak by phone with us Monday — Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Parents Guide to CSS Profile

The CSS Profile is an online application that students submit to apply for financial aid from colleges and scholarship programs. It’s different from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA ®) that students use to apply for financial aid from the federal government.

Your child should submit both the CSS Profile and FAFSA to maximize the amount of financial aid they could get.

Fast Facts

• Hundreds of colleges and scholarship organizations use CSS Profile to help them award aid. See who uses CSS Profile.
• October 1 is the first day students can submit the CSS Profile for the following school year. These tips and resources make it easier for your child to complete the application.
• There’s a fee for submitting the CSS Profile to colleges, but many students are eligible for fee waivers to cover the costs. See if your child’s eligible for a fee waiver.

Why Submit the CSS Profile?

Each year, CSS Profile connects thousands of students to more than $9 billion of financial aid. If your child wants an opportunity to get some of that money to help pay for college, they’ll need to submit the CSS Profile.

• Some colleges require students to use the CSS Profile to apply for nonfederal aid.
• The CSS Profile application asks for details about your financial situation that may increase the aid your child gets.
• If your child doesn’t submit the CSS Profile, they’re forfeiting access to billions of dollars in aid.

How to Fill Out the CSS Profile

The entire CSS Profile application process happens online. Your child will need a free College Board account to access the application; if they already have an account, they don’t need to create a new one. You can also create a student account under your own name if you’re going to fill out the application without your child.

Your child will need to provide information about your employment, family income, and other details about your family’s financial situation. You may want to sit with your child as they fill out the application because they may need your help answering the questions.

You’ll need your tax return from the past two years, bank statements, W-2 forms, and other financial documents on hand before you start the application.

The process for creating a CSS Profile is different for parents who are divorced, seperate or noncustodial. To learn more, visit our tutorial for noncustodial parents.

When to Submit the CSS Profile

Each college sets its own CSS Profile submission deadlines. Sometimes they have more than one deadline. It’s a good idea to submit the application as early as possible, beginning October 1, to give your child the best chance at getting the most financial aid.

The FAFSA application for federal student aid is also available. It is being simplified, so it won’t be open until December of 2023 rather than October. The CSS Profile asks for more information about your financial situation than the FAFSA does, but some of the questions are the same. To make sure your answers are consistent across both applications, you may want to fill them out at the same time.

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Information for Parents

Learn more about completing the CSS Profile as a parent and creating an account as a divorced, separated, or noncustodial parent.

Creating an Account for Parent Use

To complete a CSS Profile application as a parent, it is recommended that you use your student’s College Board account. There are situations in which a parent will need to create their own account.

Most Common: If you are a noncustodial parent, you will need to create a College Board student account using your (the parent’s) information.

If you are the primary parent and do not want to share financial information on your student’s account, you may create a separate College Board student account using your (the parent’s) information.

Learn more about creating a separate parent account with our step-by-step guide.

Double-check and confirm that the student is applying to any institution that requires the CSS Profile for noncustodial parents. Typically, only parents completing the noncustodial CSS Profile should create a separate account. A list of participating institutions is available online.

Visit the home page of cssprofile.org. Click the «Sign In to» button on the home page for the appropriate application award year.

Click «Create Account» under «Don’t have an account?«

Create your account using your (the parent’s) information, not the student’s information. This biggest source of confusion for parent account creation is using the student’s information. Once you have created your account and are completing the CSS Profile, be careful to answer student sections with the student’s information and parent sections with the parent’s information.

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Parents Guide to CSS Profile

The CSS Profile is an online application that students submit to apply for financial aid from colleges and scholarship programs. It’s different from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA ®) that students use to apply for financial aid from the federal government.

Your child should submit both the CSS Profile and FAFSA to maximize the amount of financial aid they could get.

Fast Facts

• Hundreds of colleges and scholarship organizations use CSS Profile to help them award aid. See who uses CSS Profile.
• October 1 is the first day students can submit the CSS Profile for the following school year. These tips and resources make it easier for your child to complete the application.
• There’s a fee for submitting the CSS Profile to colleges, but many students are eligible for fee waivers to cover the costs. See if your child’s eligible for a fee waiver.

Why Submit the CSS Profile?

Each year, CSS Profile connects thousands of students to more than $9 billion of financial aid. If your child wants an opportunity to get some of that money to help pay for college, they’ll need to submit the CSS Profile.

• Some colleges require students to use the CSS Profile to apply for nonfederal aid.
• The CSS Profile application asks for details about your financial situation that may increase the aid your child gets.
• If your child doesn’t submit the CSS Profile, they’re forfeiting access to billions of dollars in aid.

How to Fill Out the CSS Profile

The entire CSS Profile application process happens online. Your child will need a free College Board account to access the application; if they already have an account, they don’t need to create a new one. You can also create a student account under your own name if you’re going to fill out the application without your child.

Your child will need to provide information about your employment, family income, and other details about your family’s financial situation. You may want to sit with your child as they fill out the application because they may need your help answering the questions.

You’ll need your tax return from the past two years, bank statements, W-2 forms, and other financial documents on hand before you start the application.

The process for creating a CSS Profile is different for parents who are divorced, seperate or noncustodial. To learn more, visit our tutorial for noncustodial parents.

When to Submit the CSS Profile

Each college sets its own CSS Profile submission deadlines. Sometimes they have more than one deadline. It’s a good idea to submit the application as early as possible, beginning October 1, to give your child the best chance at getting the most financial aid.

The FAFSA application for federal student aid is also available. It is being simplified, so it won’t be open until December of 2023 rather than October. The CSS Profile asks for more information about your financial situation than the FAFSA does, but some of the questions are the same. To make sure your answers are consistent across both applications, you may want to fill them out at the same time.

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