Not Applying for Financial Aid - CSS Profile and FAFSA?

twoinanddone
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 03:40:00 +0000

You will NOT file a FAFSA if you are not a citizen. If Brown asks you to print out a copy and submit it to them, then you would just leave all the questions like SSN blank because you don’ t have one. FAFSA is for citizens, so that’s why they ask for things US citizens would have - tax returns, W2, bank statements. The FAFSA does not ask for mortgage information.

I would wait until Brown asks for this. It is really unlikely they will if you aren’t applying for FA. There are other documents a foreign student needs to fill out to show they have the funds to go to school in the US, but those forms are for the visa, not for FA. FAFSA and CSS are financial aid documents, so I can’t imagine Brown, or any other school where you aren’t asking for aid, would want you to fill them out especially as a ‘ghost’ document.

And should you actually be asked to fill them out, the FAFSA for 2018 will open on Oct1. You would use 2016 income and tax information.