Tips for Completing the CSS Profile and FAFSA

Nosotros have identified and listed beneath tips on aspects of the Profile™ and FAFSA forms applicants near ofttimes find confusing. Before you lot start filling out the forms nosotros encourage you to review our tips. Helpful explanations of questions asked are also congenital into the Contour™ and FAFSA forms.

Returning students who take received BU demand-based scholarship help in the past are not required to file the Profile™.

Ever utilise your legal name and right Social Security Number.

Refer to your Social Security Bill of fare when completing your Profile™ and FAFSA and ensure that you use your legal name and right Social Security Number as they appear on your Social Security Carte. The student applicant'southward Social Security Number is required on all applications. Misplaced your Social Security Bill of fare?

Include your Social Security Number on your admissions application.

Your Social Security Number (SSN) is required in society for Boston University to receive your Gratis Application for Federal Educatee Aid (FAFSA).When completing the admissions awarding for your programme at BUMC, we strongly encourage you lot to include your Social Security Number when you apply.

If you chose non to, or neglected to include your SSN on the admissions awarding, please review the Applying for Aid page of your school for further instructions:

BU School of Medicine
Graduate Medical Sciences
Goldman School of Dental Medicine
School of Public Health

The SSN not provided on your admissions awarding will result in potentially meaning delays in the review of your financial help application.

Filing your CSS Profile™ and FAFSA.

Incoming medical students are required to file both the Profile™ and the FAFSA to utilize for BU financial help. Whenever possible, complete both applications at the same fourth dimension to avoid providing conflicting information. The FAFSA is required of all students to use for federal and state fiscal aid while the Contour™ is required for institutional aid.

Use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool when filing the FAFSA

We encourage yous to use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) when completing the FAFSA. Using the IRS DRT volition make completing the FAFSA easier, ensure that accurate income information is entered on your FAFSA, and simplify the verification process in the event that yous are awarded federal financial assist and selected for federal verification.

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Study tax-deferred contributions to your pension and retirement savings.

Payments to revenue enhancement-deferred pension and retirement savings plans (paid direct or withheld from earnings) include amounts reported on your W-2 form in box 12a through 12d (codes D, Eastward, F, G, H, and Due south). The amounts must exist reported on your FAFSA and Profile™ as untaxed income. If you overlook reporting this information and are offered financial assistance on the basis of that incomplete FAFSA data, we may have to reduce your honor afterwards.

How to report business organisation and/or investment farm value on the Profile™ vs. FAFSA.

The value of any family-owned business should e'er be reported on the Contour™. On the FAFSA, however, do not report the value of a family-endemic business if your family owns more than 50% AND the business has 100 or fewer full-time employees. Business concern and/or investment farm value incudes the market value of country, buildings, machinery, equipment, inventory, etc., less business and/or investment farm debt.

Sign your FAFSA!

To complete your FAFSA, yous must sign the application. Processing of your financial help application volition be delayed until a FAFSA has been submitted with both signatures, which may issue in a reduction of your honour.

Do not update your FAFSA unnecessarily.

Once you lot have submitted your FAFSA and you have received your Educatee Aid Report (SAR), please practice not make any changes to information technology unless the SAR instructs you to practice and then. The data reported on the FAFSA is supposed to be a snapshot in fourth dimension.

Is there assist bachelor while filling out the FAFSA?

Yes, you can call the FAFSA Hotline! The Department of Education can help answer questions by calling 1-800-433-3243 .  There are also "assist & hints" for each question as yous consummate the FAFSA.