<p><a href=“MIT Student Financial Services”>MIT Student Financial Services;
<p>Read this. It is from the MIT website. The CSSProfile is required, as is the fafsa. The non-custodial parent Profile is also required, which means your dad WILL need to submit it. If he doesn’t, MIT will not evaluate your request for institutional need based aid.</p>
<p>Re: the “inflated income”. You can certainly ask MIT to consider this…but they usually only make these allowances for a bump in income if it can be clearly demonstrated that it is a ONE time occurrence that will not happen again. I’m not sure you will be able to prove this. What guarantee can your dad give MIT that he won’t receive a large commission job in upcoming years? None.</p>
<p>Plus, parents are first in line to pay for college…and this “extra income” could have in part been saved to help you with college costs.</p>
<p>Luckily, this is an EA, amd non-binding acceptance, so if the financial aid does not work out, hopefully you have other pending options that will be affordable.</p>
<p>At this point, you need to find out exactly what your parents and stepfather WILL be willing to pay for college for you annually. </p>
<p>And FYI, the Net price calculator will not work accurately for you as your parents are divorced.</p>