While the Free Application for Federal Student Aid FAFSA determines eligibility for federal financial aid, the CSS Profile is used by certain colleges to award non-federal, institutional aid.

The CSS Profile is used to determine eligibility for aid from a school. The form opens Oct. 1 each year, but deadlines to submit vary by college. Fee waivers are available for qualifying students. The ...

Before the invention of CSS, the web was filled with static content and there was no way for the static documents to be formatted in a certain way. The formatting was used to be accomplished by using ...