There is no Institutional Financial Aid Application required at this time. A supplemental application will be sent to matriculated students in May.

Apply online at the College Board website. Yale’s CSS College Code is 3987. Yale receives your profile data electronically from CSS so you do not send copies or printouts of your application to Yale.

Recommended due date: March 2, 2009.

When you complete your Profile registration, the College Board will notify you that Yale requires the Noncustodial Profile. You will be sent an e-mail that details the requirement and you will be directed to share this e-mail with your noncustodial parent. This e-mail will contain a link to the Noncustodial Profile website as well as login instructions for your noncustodial parent.

Recommended due date: March 16, 2009.

Custodial Parents: If you have submitted the CSS Profile Application, as early as February you will receive the cover sheet and instructions about the IDOC process. You will then submit signed copies of your parents’ 2008 federal tax returns (including all W2 forms and schedules) to the College Board's Imaging and Documentation Service (IDOC). All documents sent to IDOC must include the cover sheet provided by CSS.

If your parents' 2008 tax return will not be completed by March 16, 2009, you should send copies of your parents' 2007 federal tax returns (including all W2 forms and schedules) directly to Yale Student Financial Services. You should only send the 2007 tax forms to Yale if you will not be able to submit the 2008 returns to IDOC by March 16, 2009.

Non custodial Parents: Your non custodial parent must send a copy of his/her 2008 tax return directly to Student Financial Services. If your noncustoidal parents' 2008 tax return will not be completed by March 16, 2009, he/she should submit the 2007 return directly to Student Financial Services.

If you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, you will need to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) after January 1, 2009.

While the FAFSA is not required in for the initial determination of your financial aid eligibility, it is helpful for us to have the document on file. We recommend that you complete the FAFSA after the family’s tax returns are completed, but no later than May 15, 2009. Since some state scholarship agencies use the FAFSA to evaluate eligibility, you should also make sure to meet any other applicable deadlines and use estimated information if necessary.

You can complete your FAFSA online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. When you complete the FAFSA online, be sure that you and your parents obtain PIN numbers to sign electronically or submit the signature page as instructed. Yale’s FAFSA code is 001426.