Undergraduate Financial Aid

Early Assessment of Financial Aid

Early Assessment of Financial Aid

Early assessment process.

This is NOT an official application for Financial Aid.

The early assessment process is designed to help you make plans for college, but is not an official offer of financial aid. Since your family’s information is being evaluated before the formal application process begins, any financial aid determination is tentative.  In order to receive an official financial aid offer, you must submit all required application requirements.

Financial aid application requirements and deadlines are outlined in the Admission application and are also available under Apply for Aid on our website. The requirements and deadlines for the 2025-2026 academic year will be available in Fall 2024.

If you are admitted to the University and your aid application is complete, a formal financial aid decision will be included with the offer of admission.

To receive an early assessment of financial aid eligibility, submit/upload all of the following documents:

  • 2025-2026 Early Financial Aid Assessment Form and Instructions
  • Complete copy of your parents' 2023 Federal Returns (including all pages and schedules).  If your biological/adoptive parents are no longer together, but are remarried to someone else, please include information for both “Custodial Parents” (parent and step-parent).
  • 2023 W-2 forms
  • Please Note: if Tax Extension 4868 was filed for 2023, application will be considered incomplete until the 2023 tax return is received.
  • 2025-2026 Early Financial Aid Certification Page

To receive an early assessment of financial aid eligibility, submit/upload the following documents:

  • 2025-2026 International Student Early Financial Aid Assessment Form and Instructions
  • International Citizens: Parent Taxes: Most recent tax return (2023) or income assessment statement for 2023.
    • Documentation MUST be translated into English
  • Canadian Citizens: Parent Taxes: 2023 T-1 General Return is required (the Notice of Assessment is not acceptable).
    • Quebec Provincial Return is required, all others submit federal returns only

Non-Custodial Parent: 

If biological/adoptive parents are divorced, separated, or were never married and do not live together, submit/upload the following:

        (Note: If your non-custodial parent is remarried, include step-parent information.)

  1. U.S. CITIZENS: 2025-2026 Early Financial Aid Assessment Form for Non-Custodial Parent(s) 
  2. INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS: 2025-2026 Early Financial Aid Assessment Form for Non-Custodial Parent(s) International Students
  3. Complete copy of your non-custodial parents' 2023 Federal Tax Return (including all schedules) and W-2 forms, Canadian Tax Returns, and/or income assessment statement for 2023.  
  4. NOTE: If you have a unique situation where you are unable to obtain your non-custodial parent’s information, you may complete a Non-custodial Parent Waiver Petition form.

Business Owners/Self-Employed Parents: 

If your parents own a business or a farm, submit/upload the following documents:

  • 2023 Partnership, Corporate, or S-Corporate tax return(s), including K-1’s and all schedules.
  • International Business Tax Return

Please upload all documents through Banner Self Service or submit them to:

Office of Financial Aid
Box 1827 
Brown University 
Providence, RI 02912