Unless the Office of Financial Aid informs you otherwise, application requirements are as follows:
1) CSS PROFILE
The CSS PROFILE should be completed and submitted online
here. The submission deadline is
April 1. If you completed the PROFILE electronically last year, your user ID and password will be valid for this year's application as well. Colgate’s code for the PROFILE is
2086.
Please use the "Explanations/Special Circumstances" section of the PROFILE to provide information about any special circumstances about which you feel the Office of Financial Aid should be aware. In many cases we are not
initially able to take such circumstances into account; but with further documentation, such as might be requested during the course of a financial aid appeal, we are sometimes able to make adjustments.
Noncustodial PROFILE (if applicable)
Information must be provided by each living biological or adoptive parent. If your biological or adoptive parents are divorced, separated, or were never married to each other, then the custodial parent (i.e., the parent with whom you more often reside) completes the PROFILE, and the noncustodial parent completes the
Noncustodial PROFILE. The Noncustodial PROFILE process begins after completion of the custodial parent's PROFILE. Filing instructions will be provided by CSS electronically.
2) Tax Returns
In order to be considered for financial aid, you and your parent(s) are required
by April 1 to submit current tax documents to the College Board's IDOC imaging service. This submission must be accompanied by an IDOC Cover Sheet, which the College Board will make available to you once you have completed your PROFILE. If you misplace your Cover Sheet, you can download and print a copy
here. The following documents are required:
- A signed copy of parent(s)'s 2012 Canadian income tax return(s); OR, if applicable, a signed statement that a tax return was not filed and not required, indicating also the amount and source of any 2012 income.
- If applicable, a signed copy of the noncustodial parent's 2012 Canadian income tax return; OR, if applicable, a signed statement that a tax return was not filed and not required, indicating also the amount and source of any 2012 income.
- A signed copy of student’s 2012 Canadian income tax return; OR, if applicable, a signed statement that a tax return was not filed and not required, indicating also the amount and source of any 2012 income.
Your financial aid application will only be reviewed once all required documents have been received. Providing false information in order to obtain financial aid will result in the cancellation of any aid.