I have received financial aid update on Friday for both colleges. Received a mail and also portal updated.
so my to do list changed and I have an “initiated” for my mom’s 2015 tax returns but completed for IDOC. & I’m positive I uploaded moms tax returns on idoc. do I need to upload it again somewhere? there’s no link or instructions to do so 
does anyone know
@Xinnyyaa Is that 6k including tuition, room/board, and personal expenses?
@locally80 Yes
I was accepted to both Emory and Oxford, and I only see one financial aid offer… Am I supposed to be seeing two?? Or is the aid given to me the same amount and I just subtract it from the different total costs? I also have not received a FA email yet, just FYI.
For anyone that got waitlisted at Emory, here’s a new thread for that:
Did anyone accepted also receive the United Methodist Ministerial Tuition Benefit? My D’s father is United Methodist clergy. Emory received the form, but we do not see the benefit reflected on her Financial Aid page. Is it automatic or do some not receive it?
I’ve been accepted Oxford/waitlisted Emory but I still haven’t received an aid package on OPUS nor have I received an email. Everything is completed on my To-Do List. Anyone on the same boat?
Financial aid office at Emory said that they were still working on accounts and to give them 5-7 more days.
5-7 more days from today? Seriously?
@QMusic : PMed you.
does anybody know the deadline to accept financial aid?
I was waitlisted at Emory, although I received an email today about missing financial aid information. What does this mean?
We called financial aid, and they were very helpful. They added the Ministerial Tuition Benefit to my daughter’s financial aid package, They said its omission was a mistake. Now Emory is back in the running!
I got waitlisted
My parents are separated, but they filed their tax returns jointly. However, it is only registering that Emory has received my non-custodial parent’s tax returns. Should I just resubmit the information? I called the financial aid office, but they weren’t sure.
Well, looks like I predicted correctly: http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/03/er_undergraduate_admission_applications_record_high/campus.html
They admitted slightly more students. The admit rate slightly dropped. As far as I am concerned, the stats are roughly the same (if you remove the new portion that is out of 40 I think, there is a modest increase in SATs), so Emory was ethical in selecting applicants this year. They didn’t just start cherry-picking high scores though I am willing to bet they, like most other schools had the option to (at risk of the yield). I am hoping they used the extra volume to select a class that may be more academically diverse or with traits that reflect the direction the university wants to go toward. In addition I hope for success in Emory yielding some of you who got in.
Posting a question to the group - has anyone ever heard of applicants sending handwritten notes with gift baskets to admissions counselors for their region/state? And if so, is anyone else as appalled as I am that the applicant and his/her parents would engage in such desperate and blatant attempts to curry favor? I am assuming that for public schools accepting such a gift would be contrary to the counselors’ code of conduct but not sure for private schools.
@ATX_Mom : I think that may be more common than one thinks. Students and parents are desperate now-a-days, but I think they can technically do worse things. That one is annoying and kind of pathetic but I think some of the things not directly involving admissions counselors is stranger (like how some wealthy families pay a million or some portion of it to get “advising” from someone who claims connections to the school).
Got it, and I just must be super naive - am pretty plugged in to “mom talk” in local circles and had never heard of anyone sending gift baskets to admissions - but maybe it is happening all over and nobody is 'fessing up to it! Take care and good luck in making your decisions! My D is still waiting to hear from UNC and UC Berkeley before making final decisions.