<p>We sent in Ds supporting materials pack to her ED school on Nov.11 regular post office but with an additional express charge(4-5 days). (Online app was submitted on time online for Nov.15 deadline.) Included in package was stamped (U.S. airmail) postcard to confirm receipt of materials. No postcard received yet by us (Nov.26 ) --we are in Europe. Will the college tell us if they never got the transcript etc. ? Should we inquire? How long to wait?</p>
<p>Thanks,
Pyewacket</p>
<p>Pyewacket:</p>
<p>It is okay to call and enquire. It is not out of the question that you have not received the postcard yet, but it does not hurt to call and confirm receipt.</p>
<p>After having done so many of those last year, call and check. It will make everything go better. Most go through but we found a few problems last year and didn't check right away. If I was doing it over again, I'd have my son on the phone right around the time the package should have arrived...maybe within two days. Why not!</p>
<p>Thanks, marite. Reassurance needed here.</p>
<p>Pye, daughter sent a package for EA to _________. By DHL. It was never acknowledged as she had requested. I called two weeks in. Her "file" didn't show it to be received although the shipping receipt was signed for by a college employee 2 days after we sent the package . </p>
<p>After another week and three more calls I was by chance routed to the person in charge of scanning every hard document into their system. The documents had all been scanned in weeks before but no one at office one had changed the "status" on the computer and no one at office two would have ever known that I was frantically looking for something that wasn't ever lost. Check out what happens to doc's once received. It may go to a scanning station separate from "admissions proper".</p>
<p>Agree it's fine to call. Some (few, I believe) schools actually have an automated system telling you exactly what's been received and what not. Don't panic, however, if things are reported missing, as there is often a lag between receipt and posting to the various "systems." </p>
<p>We were advised, correctly I believe, by GC that some schools don't ever return those SASE postcards.</p>
<p>My experience in calling for DS and gS is that staff are quite helpful in tracking what's arrived.</p>
<p>Also, so long as the basic app meets the deadline, it is my experience that supporting materials trailing in are ok - up to a point, of course.</p>
<p>We had this sort of thing happen and we called. Mostly getting to a human being sorted it out within 24 hours.</p>
<p>However, one EA school of my D's lost her app entirely for weeks, and never told us-- and thus she "missed" the EA deadline. They were so consistenly poor at communication and so consistently bungling that it seemed to be a hallmark of the school. She withdrew the app.</p>
<p>Well, took your advice. Called admissions Monday morning--secretary wasn't sure where transcript etc. might be if it was there or not there. Called admissions officer whom we had spoken to on Interview day. He promised to look, e-mailed back 24 hrs. later saying he didn't know yet either. Just called again at main switchboard today (Thursday--2 weeks after ED deadline!) now they told my D --everything's there , she's "all set!"</p>
<p>So, all's well that ends well, I guess--wonder what parallel universe transcript package was inhabiting for the last two weeks. Now all we have to do is wait for the envelope.</p>
<p>crossed fingers!!! This will be a hard wait!</p>