UMich boosted financial aids for both in-state and OOS students

[BelknapPoint]

Also, CSS profile captures the finances of some Pell qualified students in a way where they don’t qualify for much aid…if parents own business or have assets that weren’t counted on FAFSA.

That 10% is only showing the percent who actually enrolled. Who knows how many applied but got aid pkgs that didn’t work for them because of NCP issues or that CSS included home equity, business, etc.

Plus, there are probably some that didn’t bother to apply once they realized that CSS profile would eliminate much/all of the aid they wanted.

IF the UC schools used CSS Profile, probably many would suddenly not qualify for the aid that they’re getting.

Come on… CSS Profile is a collection system. How each school that requires Profile uses that collected data is potentially different at every school and will depend on the specific policies that every school has. Just because Profile asks for information that is not reported on FAFSA does not mean that a school uses that information to the detriment of a need-based financial aid seeking student.