Filling out the CSS Profile

This varies from university to university. It is highly unlikely that your CSS profile will be due before the application deadline, but it may be due on the deadline. Most universities have the CSS profile due after the application deadline, but do not assume that this is the case.

There is a fee to pay for submitting the CSS profile, but SYE will provide waivers or cover the cost of submission. Some schools also have specific means of waiving the CSS profile fees, which are listed in the SYE waivers spreadsheet.

Many of your responses will be zero, and this is ok. You want to try your hardest to figure out the equivalent to what they are asking in the country you live in, but often there isn’t one.

You have to try your hardest to find the documents they are requested. Are they asking for a bank statement? Do everything you can to get to that bank for a print out. Do you need a statement of your parent’s annual salary? Ask your parents to request a document with this information from their employer. If you have exhausted all other options and have still not been able to obtain the documents, you can write a statement explaining the situation and upload it in the “special circumstances” section.

Child support is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child following the end of a marriage. Specifically, the marriage ends in divorce or separation (not from the death of a parent or other such circumstances)

Pension is the money that employers pay to the employees after they retire.

If you and your parents live outside of the U.S., your response will almost certainly be “not filed, and not required to file a tax return.” Almost all questions that include a “federal” program will only be relevant to those with some sort of legal status in the U.S.