Once the financial criteria have been met and the listing application is completed, a company must decide what ticker symbol it wants to use and apply for its use if the company wants to trade on the Nasdaq.
But more than 300 colleges also require the CSS Profile aid application to be completed to receive their institutional aid (meaning, discounts on their tuition).
If parents and a student are facing one of the more common financial aid application filing deadlines of February 15th, March 1st, or March 15th and have not completed their tax return, they should provide their best estimates of their 2012 tax information.