If my legal parents are separated/divorced/never married, do I need to include both of their incomes?

The Foundation typically requires both of the applicant’s legal parents to submit their financial information and insights on their student’s education for the Cooke Young Scholars Program application. The Cooke Foundation considers legal parents to be the applicant’s biological parents, adoptive parents, or legal guardians.

If a student’s legal parents are separated, divorced, or not living together, both legal parents are required to submit their financial information using separate parent forms. In cases where one or both legal parents have remarried, the stepparent’s financial information should also be included in the parent forms. The combined adjusted gross income for both households, excluding stepparents, will be used to determine a student’s financial eligibility.