Out of these schools: University of miami, UCLA, University of Arizona, ASU, Rice University, Emory University, Boston University, University of Miami, do any of them require the submission of the FAFSA or CSS in order for my application to be considered? or can I submit my application without having to submit my FAFSA or CSS?
If you are not applying for financial aid, you do not have submit the FASFA for UCLA.
You are never “required” to file FAFSA or Profile when you apply for admission.
But if you do not submit FAFSA and CSS and you are admitted you cannot apply for financial aid afterwards.
Well…sort of.
The FAFSA can be submitted at any point during the academic year for federally funded aid. If you qualify for a Pell Grant, you can apply any time during the year, and you will get it. If you decide you want the Direct Loan after you are admitted, fine to complete the FAFSA to get that too.
Some schools will accept a late submission of the financial aid application forms, including the Profile. The problem is…there probably won’t be sufficient institutional funds left to award you aid.
For colleges that are need aware for admissions…if you don’t apply for aid up from, they will assume that you intend to be full pay.
There are a handful of colleges with restrictions on applying for need based aid in subsequent years if you don’t apply as an incoming freshman. I don’t believe any of the colleges on the list have this restriction.
@TheConfusedss is your family intending to pay the full cost of attendance at these colleges?
But…really…none of these colleges require that you apply for financial aid in order to be accepted. Just plan to be full pay!
@thumper1 Tbh, they just said that they might not fill out the fafsa or css. I mainly asked the whole “need to submit it in order to get accepted” because a few people told me that for certain colleges that I had to
You can apply to these colleges without submitting the financial aid application forms. Keep in mind that some cost over $70,000 a year…now.
If your parents can’t pay the price for you to attend, it might be a huge waste of your money to apply.
UCLA- unless you are instate, plan to pay the $65,000 a year cost to attend. They give no need based aid to OOS students.
University of Arizona, ASU- are these your instate options?
Rice University- meets full need for all, but you will be paying the over $60,000 a year cost to attend if you don’t submit the financial aid forms.
Emory University- same as rice.
Boston University- cost is over $70,000 a year.
University of Miami- again $60,000 a year or so…now.
Discuss these costs with your parents. If they can pay for you to attend, fine. If not…how do you hope to cover the costs?
Basically what I’m saying is…it does you absolutely no good to be accepted if you can’t pay the cost to attend.
So…you need to have a very realistic conversation with your parents about what they WILL pay for college.
What year are you in HS? What is your SAT or ACT score, and GPA?
@thumper1 Currently, senior year and a 30 on the ACT and 3.78 GPA. I will do exactly that and discuss this with them also, thank you
No colleges require CSS or FAFSA to be submitted in order to be considered.
Do you think that Bill Gate’s children or any other billionaire’s kids submitted either one? No, I think it’s safe to say that they didn’t.
And there are students not eligible to file FAFSA because they aren’t citizens or legal residents - international students, DACA students, undocumented students. Many schools will still give state aid to these students and may have another form to complete.
It seems very late for a senior to be starting applications? With your stats, know that you have a couple of reachy reaches and some reaches. is being full pay part of your strategy? You are solid on being able to pay $250K plus?