<p>Im currently filling out the app on line, Is the personal statement included on the online app?
Also, what are all the materials I have to submit with my application? Financial Aid? Housing? </p>
<p>Thanks!!!!!</p>
<p>Applications for financial aid and housing are only required after admission. Just submit the application, a high school transcript, and your SAT or ACT scores.</p>
<p>If you use the online application, no personal statement is allowed/required. This can only be submited with a printed-out application–and it really isn’t necessary unless you are a borderline applicant.</p>
<p>do i have to submit all of these materials at once, or will they file them? also, what about letters of recommendation?</p>
<p>They will file them–but it is preferable to file them all at once, because the school will lose some of what is sent separately–and you don’t want to be one of those whose stuff gets lost (and whose acceptace is thereby delayed).</p>
<p>son is sending his application hard copy (program he is interested in needs alot of supplemental info) and he didnt want any problem with 1/2 being online and 1/2 mailed documents. how will he be able to check if things arrive or application status. i found a thing called onestart, if you file paper app but that looks like it could take 4-8 weeks to actually update, ie after you find out about admission. he is considering sending the package fed ex, so he can track it and at least know it arrived?</p>
<p>^^As I recall D received a password and user name when she did her app online. It doesn’t seem like it was through the onestart system, but it could have been. She regularly checked her status online. Although the website indicated it could take 4-8 weeks to update she applied early enough in the season that it was faster. I do recall a delay in the SAT scores showing up as received, but it was an error since she had sent them months before the application. She confirmed the receipt of the scores with a call to admissions. FYI–there was another applicant with the same ■■■ name as DD. When the admissions office mentioned an erroneous SAT score we realized this. They did have the correct score when DD told them her birthdate.</p>
<p>maybe we could try that also, check fed ex to see if received and also that day call admissions to confirm that his act scores arrived back in july. from what i can tell online app will give you the password etc when you submit but sending the printed copy could be a problem for tracking its progress.</p>
<p>The delivery confirmation will let you know that the materials reached the admissions office, but it won’t tell you if everything was correctly entered into the system, that is, whether the admissions application, test scores, hs transcript and counselor’s form all got checked in under your future student’s name. That step probably is completed within a few days of receiving all the materials. I would give them a call ((812) 855-0661; 8am-5pm M-F) a week or so after you get delivery confirmation to confirm that everything got entered correctly. Only complete applications make their way to the admission’s counselor’s desk. If the system shows that something is missing, no admissions materials for a student will go to the counselor until the computer shows that everything has been received-- then the physical application gets in line to be evaluated by the relevant admission’s counselor. It would be pointless for an actual admission’s officer to evaluate an application package that IU thinks is incomplete. </p>
<p>So call them a week or so after you know that the materials have arrived to ensure that everything has been entered correctly. It will only take a few minutes to do it over the phone (they have two counselors there that answer the phone and answer this question many times a day), and it will be reassuring to know that all was entered correctly. </p>
<p>If there is a mistake-- something missing, or, more likely, everything is there but not entered correctly into the system-- and they have to contact you about it, it could take weeks for them to tell you about it. This happened to us two years ago --everything was there in son’s physical file, but computer showed that transcript had not been received (in other words, the person who checked in the materials made a mistake)-- and we didn’t contact them for six weeks after we applied (because the web site said to wait that long before inquiring), which was our mistake. We should have called much sooner.</p>