Continuing Students - Foreign

2012-2013 Application Process for Continuing Students

Continuing students must reapply for financial aid each academic year. The deadline for continuing students to submit All financial aid application materials is May 5th, 2012.

Late financial aid applicants may be penalized by having some of their Columbia grant eligibility replaced by additional work. If you have extenuating circumstances that will delay completion of your financial aid application, please contact your financial aid advisor before May 5 to request a deadline extension.

Students may check the status of their application online via SSOL Financial Aid System Online. Continuing student award letters will not be available until July, 2012.

Foreign Students Whose Parents Live Outside of the US

Continuing Foreign Students Living Outside of the US

Required Forms

How to Apply

Due Dates

CSS Profile and Tax Information

Complete the 2012-2013 CSS Profile online.
CSS School Codes: 2116

Profile data will be sent electronically from CSS to Columbia so you do not need to send us copies or printouts of your application.  

Submit signed copies of your and your parents' most recently completed income tax returns (including all schedules and any business returns) to the following address:

Financial Aid & Educational Financing
Columbia University
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
100 Hamilton Hall, MC 2802
New York , NY 10027

Or FAX to 212-854-5353.

Remember to include our COVER SHEET with all documents.

If a tax return is not filed in your country, please provide a current statement of earnings from your parents' employers that state their yearly earnings.

All tax/income documents (if not already in English) should be translated into English but report all figures in local currency.

There is no longer a separate Columbia Renewal Applcation.

  

Students may check the status of their application online via Net Parnter. Continuing student award letters will not be available until late June, 2012.

May 5, 2012

Foreign Students Whose Parents Live Inside the US

Please note that as a non-US Citizen or non US Permanent Resident you do not complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

  Foreign Students Whose Parents Live Inside the US

Required Forms

How to Apply

Due Dates

CSS Profile

Complete the 2012-2013 CSS Profile online.

CSS School Codes: 2116

Profile data will be sent electronically from CSS to Columbia so you do not need to send us copies or printouts of your application.

May 5, 2012
Tax Information

Submit signed copies of your and your parents' most recently completed income tax returns (including all schedules and any business returns) to the following address:

Financial Aid & Educational Financing
Columbia University
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
100 Hamilton Hall, MC 2802
New York , NY 10027

Or FAX to 212-854-5353.

Remember to include our COVER SHEET with all documents.

If a tax return is not filed in your country, please provide a current statement of earnings from your parents' employers that state their yearly earnings.

All tax/income documents (if not already in English) should be translated into English but report all figures in local currency.

There is no longer a separate Columbia Renewal Application.

Students may check the status of their application online via SSOL Financial Aid System Online. Continuing student award letters will not be available until late June, 2012.