Reporting parents Often obvious but sometimes not Students are expected to report their Biological parents Current stepparents Current parental partners Current legal guardians Understanding how to report parents is important ID: 749693
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Reporting Parents on the CSS Profile
09/01/2020Slide2
Reporting Parents
Students are expected to report their
Biological/adoptive parentsCurrent stepparents
Current parental partners
Current legal guardians
Often obvious, but sometimes notSlide3
Reporting Parents
Report:
Each Parent’s name
Relationship to Student
Click on “Save and Continue”
The parents are togetherSlide4
Reporting Parents
If a parent is deceased, that parent is still reported and deceased is checked
Click on “Save and Continue”
A parent is deceasedSlide5
Reporting Parents
Both are still reported
Click on “Save and Continue”
Parents are no longer together but are not remarried or re-partneredSlide6
What happens next?
The marital status allows the parents to report they are
SeparatedDivorced
Never married, not living together
Parents are no longer together but are not remarried or re-partneredSlide7
Reporting Parents
All of the student’s parents are reported
Father
Mother
Stepfather
Stepmother
Click “Add Another Parent” to enter additional parents
Up to four parents can be reported
Parents are no longer together and one or both parents are remarried or re-partneredSlide8
What happens next?
Select the parent(s) with whom the student lives
Select the parent(s) providing information
Determines if application is being completed by
Student and custodial parent
Noncustodial parent
Parents are not together – how does the CSS Profile know which parent is which?Slide9
Reporting parents
Click the “X” at the end of the Parent 2 row to remove
Single parent through adoption or donor conceivedSlide10
Reporting parents
Select a response to explain why you did not list a Parent 2
Once the appropriate selection is made, the CSS Profile will continue and will ask for Parent 1 information only
Single parent through adoption or donor conceivedSlide11
Reporting parents
Court appointed legal guardians are reported as parents
Parents are still reported as parents
Student has a legal guardianSlide12
What happens next?
The legal guardian’s family is identified as the parents the student lived with the most
The legal guardian’s family is identified as the parents providing information on the CSS Profile
Surviving parents may be required to submit their own CSS Profile
Student has a legal guardianSlide13
Thank you!
Resources:
cssprofile.org
Getting Started with your CSS Profile Application
Other tutorials available
CSS Profile Tutorial
Completing the CSS Profile as the Noncustodial Parent
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