The student would do well to fill out soon the financial aid forms or family financial statements required by his or her college.

It also plans to hold workshops for sponsors, scholars and their families on everything from study skills to filling out financial aid forms.

Connecticut College, for example, introduced a financial aid form two years ago to screen out fancy footwork it considered unjustified.

Child sponsorships is Kindernothilfe's most important aid form which can accompany children until they become responsible for themselves.

The aid form has never been a model of straightforwardness and simplicity.

Based on financial aid forms, Cornell figured that the student's family could afford to pay $12,249 of the roughly $20,000 annual tuition, room and board.

Along with the application, students must send transcripts, financial aid forms and application fee.

But often, applicants must fill out their own scholarship and financial aid forms.

At Harvard, for instance, the median family income was about $150,000 last year, financial aid forms suggest.

Fee-based preparation of the aid form had been allowed as early as 1995.