Transfer Students

U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents

You should apply for financial aid at the same time you apply for admission.  You must complete your financial aid application by the due date in order to receive your financial aid award with your admission decision.

If your financial aid application is late, your financial aid eligibility will not change.  If you complete your application late, however, you may not receive your financial aid award before the deadline to commit to Duke.  This means you will have to decide if you will matriculate to Duke without knowing how much aid you will receive.  We therefore strongly recommend you complete your financial aid application as early as possible.

To get an estimate of your financial aid award, check out our calculator.

NOTE: The FAFSA application will not be uploaded to the applicant access account until the end of February. This item will stay incomplete until that time. If you have received a confirmation from FAFSA that the application has been received, you can go ahead and remove Duke's code and insert another school code.

 

Required Forms	Due Dates	How to Apply/Where to Send
2012-2013 CSS Profile Application	April 1, 2012	Apply online at the College Board’s Profile On Line site. Duke’s CSS College Code is 5156. Duke receives your Profile data electronically from CSS. Please do not send copies to the Duke Financial Aid Office.
2012-2013 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)	April 1, 2012	Apply online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. Duke’s federal code number is 002920. Be sure to sign your FAFSA either electronically with a PIN number provided by the Department of Education or by printing out and mailing a FAFSA signature sheet provided by the processor. More information on PIN numbers can be found at www.pin.ed.gov.
2011 Tax Returns & W2 Forms	April 1, 2012 (Sent to IDOC) April 15, 2012 (Received by our office)	Once you have filed your Profile Form, you will receive a letter from the College Board’s Institutional Documentation Service (IDOC) providing instructions on how to submit your tax forms and any other supplemental forms required. You should send signed photocopies of all pages of your parents’ and your own 2011 federal tax return including photocopies of all W-2 forms to the College Board by April 1st. If your parents own a business, then their business tax schedules and tax returns (Schedule K-1, Forms 1120, 1120S, and/or 1065) should be included in your IDOC submission.  If your parents did not file a US return, we require copies of the foreign return filed. If your parents did not file ANY tax return, download the Non-Tax Filer Statement from our forms page and include it with your IDOC submission.
CSS Noncustodial Profile (Only required if your parents are divorced, separated, or were never married.)	April 1, 2012	When you complete your Profile registration, the College Board will notify you via email that Duke requires the Noncustodial Profile. This e-mail will provide details about the requirement and should be shared with your noncustodial parent. The e-mail will contain a link to the Noncustodial Profile website as well as login instructions for your noncustodial parent. Your noncustodial parent's 2011 tax return should be submitted directly to the Duke Financial Aid Office. When submitting the 2011 tax returns to our office, please label them as noncustodial tax returns, student name and birth date.
Additional Information	April 1, 2012	If your family has special circumstances or unusual expenses, or if there are any other details which will help us more completely understand your financial situation, please make sure we know.
Profile Corrections	No Date	Since we verify all financial information with the financial documentation you provide to IDOC, you do not need to submit Profile corrections regarding financial information. If you need to correct other information, such as family size or number of children in college, you can email us this information and we'll correct it for you.