Not including "retirement" info on CSS...

thumper1
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:07:17 +0000

Folks…the Profile does NOT yield an EFC like the FAFSA. It contains financial information that the schools use to disperse institutional aid. If the U of Chicago uses the Profile, they want it to be complete. That’s it. If your finaid forms are not complete, in most cases they will not be processed. In this case, it means that U of Chicago will not process the finaid form until it is complete. The OP submitted an incomplete Profile…there were blanks on it.

Now…how to correct it? Well, you need to call finaid. In all cases with us, any corrections or additions or whatever required that we print out the submitted Profile and HANDWRITE the corrections onto the print out. Then we mailed them to the colleges. We had to do this because DD submitted the Profile in November for EA priority consideration using estimates. Once our taxes were completed, we had to amend the Profile. We called each school and were told the same thing in all cases…print it out, make the corrections, and mail it in. Now…they also told us who to mail the corrected form to…and THAT is important.

In the case of all applications to college and for financial aid, I would suggest that applicants complete the application in total…leaving no blanks.