Hello, do colleges that require the student’s CSS profile get to SEE the entire completed profile? In other words, all the hoopla about confidentiality of all colleges applied to and its admission cycle is lost if they see the profile in its entirety? Maybe I’m not well informed on this (and so much more!)? Please clarify. TIA
At a need-blind school, the admissions office staff will not see an applicant’s financial aid information. The financial aid office very likely has access to the entire completed form.
I’m not sure that the other schools can be seen. This change was made to the FAFSA, and I thought the Profile schools did so as well. That they can only see their school…and not others applied to.
As good many will end up updating the submitted CSS profile, and that it is a manual process (print out of the online profile already submitted), college(s) will end up seeing in its entirety!!
Why would you be updating the Profile. The 2019-2020 Profile uses 2017 tax year information which you would easily have by the time you submit it.
Most folks NOW do NOT need to update the Profile…at all.
The switch to prior prior year tax return info made that updating unnecessary.
So what? What specifically are you concerned about someone seeing?
And I don’t think that “a good many” will need to update or correct a previously submitted Profile. Find the information requested, enter it correctly, and you should be good to go.
Say if student changes their mind of a EA/ED school from one to the other equally competitive school. And it could be for awhole bunch of other non-tax related responses on the profile form…
What other responses on the Profile would you be changing?
If you accurately and honestly complete this form when you submit it the first time…there is NO reason to change anything on it.
If you need to print out and send in a Profile hard copy to correct an error, just leave out the parts that disclose other schools you have previously sent the form to.
Regardless of why a submitted profile needs to be manually updated; and mailed to colleges individually on the CSS list- while correcting the info, on a side, they could see the entire college list. And that’s something later on in the process may impact their fin aid decision.
If you’re mailing in a corrected Profile, just leave out the college list. What’s so hard about that?
Redact the rest (on that page) or the entire form needs be sent?
@Blore2023 seriously?
Do you think the financial aid department makes their awards based on other schools you apply to?
They don’t.
I’ll say it again:
If you need to print out and send in a Profile hard copy to correct an error, just leave out the parts that disclose other schools you have previously sent the form to.
You’re making this a lot harder than it needs to be.
Oh, that’s good to know. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for your responses.