<p>To needblind schools such as most of the ivy leagues and other schools, if the noncustodial parent does NOT submit his part of the CSS profile, is your admissions application to the school considered incomplete and therefore, rejected on the basis of incompletion. Or can you still get accepted just without any financial aid?</p>
<p>NO ONE has to apply for FA in order to be considered for admission. do you think that Bill Gates’ kids apply for FA?</p>
<p>So, your app will get considered for admission, but if your NCP doesn’t fill out the FA paperwork, then the only aid you could be considered for is fed aid…which isn’t much at all.</p>
<p>Can your custodial parent pay? If not, then what’s the point of getting accepted?</p>
<p>Thanks for the response. I know that people don’t have to apply for financial aid, but what I meant to say is that for example if you apply Early action to Yale, you send in ur CSS profile, but NCP does not send in his, what happens then? If you are accepted, would they just not give you an estimate of financial aid in December when decisions roll in or what would they say? Secondly, do admissions officers see the financial documents or are they just seen by financial aid officers? Your application would not be marked incomplete without the documents if you did check that you were going to apply for fin aid?</p>
<p>Your app to the school has nothing to do with FA. Checking the box that you’ll apply for FA has nothing to do with admissions.</p>
<p>Adcoms don’t see the FA papers. Yale is need blind</p>
<p>If the NCP doesn’t fill out the info, then all the school can do is see if you qualify for any fed aid…which isn’t much. It really can’t give you any aid estimate because it won’t know if your NPC is wealthy or not.</p>
<p>If the non-custodial parent does not complete the non-custodial parent Profile, Yale will NOT process your application for institutional need based aid…because your application will NOT be complete. If you are applying early action and would like that estimated award, the NCP MUST complete the form.</p>
<p>If you want institutional aid from Yale, the NCP MUST complete the NCP Profile…unless you get a waiver…but since it sounds like you have contact with the NCP, and know where that parent is…a waiver is highly unlikely.</p>
<p>You would complete the FAFSA in January for consideration of federally funded aid, and the NCP is not included on the FAFSA. But the max Pell Grant is $5600, and the Direct Loan $5500…which will not fund your education at Yale in full.</p>
<p>Your application for need based aid has NOTHING to do with your application for admissions. If you are admitted, THEN the financial aid folks will look at your application for aid and prepare a package.</p>
<p>If you indicate that you are NOT applying for financial aid on the application, you will need to contact Yale to change that…or they will NOT prepare a financial aid package for you.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks for the two replies. They were very helpful.</p>
<p>@thumper1, Regarding “If you are admitted, THEN the financial aid folks will look at your application for aid and prepare a package.”.</p>
<p>If that is the case, then why do the school request your CSS profile/other documents before the admissions reply date? For example, the CSS profile is due November 1st for Yale yet Yale releases decisions mid-December. These due dates are what led me to believe that the two applications (admissions and fin. aid) were somewhat connected… Thanks again!</p>
<p>They want your financial aid paper work so they can prepare an estimated package for you IF you get accepted.</p>
<p>Look at the due dates for regular decison. You will see that they want the financial aid paperwork early also. That is because it would be IMPOSSIBLE to put together a financial aid package to send with acceptances if the paper work wasnt sent there earlier!</p>
<p>The financial aid folks and the admissions folks at Yale are not looking at each other’s work. IF you are accepted, THEN the acceptance is sent to financial aid folks who then complete your aid package.</p>
<p>When any NCP does not send in required paperwork, or if anything is incomplete, you are supposed to get a letter, card, email, all of those things letting you know that no financial aid estimate, award can be given until all of the paperwork is complete. Just like in admissions if a transcript, test scores, school rec is missing, you will be so told. </p>
<p>Without the NCP financials, there is no way any school can come up with a package or estimate. You could have been one of Trump’s exes for all they know. In such cases, when the ex refuses to cooperate, and that does happen too often you can request a NCP waive( nearly impossible to qualify if parent is in the kid’s life and simply refusing to hand over the info), and really, what usually happens in such cases, is that an accepted kid may not qualify for financial aid, other than federal entitelments. Myy close friend had such a situation. Her first choice school accepted her, but would not give her any aid without the NCP. So, it was State U for her and her brother later who was caught the same way.</p>