CSS Profile

University of Virginia, University of Richmond, Washington and Lee University, the College of William & Mary, and Patrick Henry College are the schools in Virginia that require the Profile.

$9 for the application, $16 for each school.

Fee waivers for the CSS Profile:

• The logic is built into the application. A student will know if he or she has received a waiver because there will be no charge at the end.

• Allows the student to submit the application to a maximum of six schools free of charge.

• Fee Payment Codes (provided by the school) allow a student to submit their application free of charge to that particular school.

• 21-item registration section.

• Applicants must submit the registration before proceeding to the application.

• The application builds around the responses to the registration. Therefore, if the student alters registration questions, the application part may alter in accordance with the changed questions.

• The application section may consist of about 50 to 130 questions.

• Help codes are available throughout by selecting the question mark icons or the blue links near the questions.

• Students should use whole numbers and enter a zero for questions that will not have an amount.

• Many people find that the CSS Profile is more extensive and may be longer in number of questions asked.

• The CSS Profile provides an opportunity for students and families to provide additional written information in the Special Circumstances section.

The FAFSA and the CSS Profile define parents and custodial parents in the same way as each other, but unlike the FAFSA, if a student has a legal guardian, then all of the parent questions on the CSS Profile apply to the student’s legal guardian.