Estimated income CSS

What is the point of listing estimated income? Can’t my parentschedule say that they could be out of a job or make sone thing up? How can one estimate if everything hasn’t been finalized yet?

To get the most accurate package. They’ll have to provide tax returns eventually and if the actual earnings are very different, the package well also be different.

if you make something up and get a “generous estimate”, then you’ll decide to go, and then once you later are required to provide the real info, your aid estimate will change to a much smaller pkg.

Don’t you want a more accurate estimate? If so, provide good numbers.