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Understanding How Colleges Assess Your Ability to Pay and Aid Eligibility
This workshop details the financial factors colleges use to determine your ability to pay, with an inside look at their calculations and decision-making process. These insights provide you with early strategies to maximize your eligibility for need-based financial aid well before senior year. Insights and actions you'll take away from this session:
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- How colleges count income versus assets when calculating eligibility. Key differences in calculations between the FAFSA versus CSS Profile applications.
- Unique rules for separated or divorced parents.
- How expenses, debt and other personal circumstances are considered.
- Strategies to ensure the most aid eligibility.
CSW—a gender-inclusive day and boarding school for grades 9-12—is a national leader in progressive education. We live out our values of inquiry-based learning, student agency, and embracing diverse perspectives in every aspect of our student experience. Young people come to CSW to learn how to learn and then put what they learn into action—essential skills they carry into their futures as doers, makers, innovators, leaders, and exceptional humans who do meaningful work in the world.