CSS Profile...Expensive!!!

FastLane
Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:49:43 +0000

Lindsaylu -

I know that this has turned out to be a really long thread and maybe you haven’t had the time to read it from beginning to end – it has taken many turns. The point that we were ORIGINALLY discussing was the COST of the Profile, especially for those students who had to file it for several schools, for whatever reason. The students that replied were complaining about the fees HAD ALREADY filed the profiles, it was not a matter of what they could do instead, or how they could avoid the fees – it was a done deal – we were exchanging ideas of how we felt AFTER THE FACT. The list of schools that you refer to were listed only to support the opinion that the number of schools that USE the profile has increased, and as a result students are faced with additional expenses. Even if a school, like you indicate, only “uses” it for ED applicants, that ED applicant has to pay for that profile.

Just reading the title you can see that the OP never asked for any alternatives to paying for the profile – he/she was only asking if anyone else felt the same “that the CSS Profile service was expensive” – the thread then took a life of its own.

I still stand by my opinion that it is unfair for the CB to charge students $23/profile to provide colleges with a single PDF file containing our finacial information, while they (CB) only charges colleges $5.00/IDOC packet which provides them with copies of our W2’s & tax return information and other documents such as the B/F Supplement which the colleges use for verification. IMHO, the students are getting the worst end of the deal here.