<p>I'm using delivery services like Fedex, and I want to avoid sending financial aid application and admission package separately...It doubles my cost, but I definitely don't want my application get lost. Do you think I can mail my financial aid application, along with my other stuffs, to the admissions office address? </p>
<p>Many thanks in advance!</p>
<p>No. Financial aid offices have a different address, and the admissions office is not set up routinely to deliver financial aid applications to the FA office. They may do it, but it's more likely that your app, or some part of it, will be lost.</p>
<p>Mail your FA application to the FA office and your admissions applicatoin to the admissions office.</p>
<p>Check the website of each office and see what they say. If there are different addresses in the contact info, then you definitely need to send them separately. It may not be necessary for each school.</p>
<p>Thank you all! I'll make sure I send the forms directly to the FA office then.</p>
<p>But for LACs they have the same address for both financial aid forms and appl forms right?</p>
<p>Even if they have the same address, they are located in different offices. The person sorting the mail in the admissions office is going to open the envelopes but may not even look at all the documents. They see an application on top, they put the whole packet in your file. It may take a while for anyone to realize that there's something there for the FA office.</p>
<p>It would be like someone sending your sibling a letter and enclosing a letter for you. Same address, different person. You may never see that letter.</p>
<p>Why take the chance? If you don't want to pay FedEx prices, send it Priority Mail at the post office. It's only about 4 bucks.</p>
<p>^ Its difficult for international students like me. So I HAD to send them to admission office. I hope it works out.</p>
<p>You may want to contact the admissions office and the FA office and tell them where to look for your FA application.</p>
<p>I disagree with the above posters. I applied mostly to LACs and sent my fin aid application to the admission office unless the colleges explicitly asked me to send the forms to the fin aid office. At many LACs the admission and the fin aid office are one administrative unit with one common mailing address (e.g. XYZ College, The Office of Admission and Financial Aid, ...).<br>
As far as I can tell all colleges were able to process my fin aid application.</p>
<p>Thank you b@r!um(that's hard to type :P). I'm applying to big universities. According to their website, they DO have separate offices for Admission and FA. In some cases they even have different post codes!</p>
<p>b@r!um, do you still remember which are the LACs which you sent to the same address?</p>
<p>I am sure about Colby and less sure about some others... Why are you asking?</p>
<p>I am in a rush to get everything sent..</p>
<p>I filled out the international student FA application for UChicago. They told me to sent it to the admission office. weird huh? guess each school is different. or maybe the lady answering teh phone at chicago don't know what she is doing.</p>
<p>Singge: I emailed my Admission Counselor at UChicago (her name is Isabel C. Gomez by the way) and she told me that I didn't have to submit ANYTHING at this point. Once they decide to accept you, they will ask you to fill a form for I-20. So I think the lady you talked to was downright incorrect.</p>
<p>coolcc: Are you talking about the Certification of Finances? I think shingge referred to the financial aid application - she definitely has to submit her fin aid application before she gets admitted!</p>
<p>What ? You need to send separate packages to the admission office and to the financial aid office ?</p>
<p>My college counselor just started working at my school. She is inexperienced and this is her first college counselor position, but she does work hard for us and constantly is learning. The school used to have a very experienced counselor, who worked there for 12 years or so. The secretary still remains from the previous administration. She put my transcript inside the same envelope as my financial aid package.</p>
<p>So, will my package get to the financial aid office or what ?</p>
<p>There is a thing called campus mail. I am sure everything will eventually end up in the right place.</p>