The CSS Profile is like a colonoscopy of your finances. You may need recovery time when done. And to add insult, you pay The College Board a fee every time you share CSS with a different school.

The CSS Profile is used to determine aid from the college or university. The form opens Oct. 1 each year, but deadlines to submit vary by college. Fee waivers are available for eligible students.

But either way, the element still exists in the HTML; the CSS just affects how they display in the browser. For a form, the input tags still exist and will still send their value="" attributes to ...

Hundreds of colleges use the CSS Profile to award institutional grants and scholarships to students. The 2025-26 form opened on Oct. 1, 2024. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page ...