<p>1) the instructions on their website say "You should send signed photocopies of all pages and schedules of your parents' 2008 federal tax returns (including photocopies of all W-2 forms) to the College Board by March 1." So if I put the forms in the mail on February 28, am I okay?</p>
<p>2) On the "forms' section of the Harvard financial aid website, there is a "parental cashflow statement" that looks like this: <a href="http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/downl..._statement.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/downl..._statement.pdf</a></p>
<p>However, this statement is not mentioned anywhere in Harvard's financial aid instructions... what's the deal with this? Is it required or what?</p>
<p>Hmm, I saw the cashflow statement too but I didn’t submit it.</p>
<p>I only know about your first Q.
It takes approximately 5 business days for Collegeboard to receive your papers and process them. I sent mine 2/21 and it was just made available to colleges 2/27. Yours won’t make it by time, but I’m sure a lot of people’s documents will be late as well. I don’t think this would really hurt the amount of financial aid you get.</p>
<p>Question: if it appears to be taking more than 5 days (closer to 10), is that a bad thing? :|</p>
<p>10 business days (Mon-Fri)? ._. That’s a long time. But Collegeboard might just be swamped with documents since a lot of deadlines are around now. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.</p>
<p>Heh, I hope so. :|</p>
<p>In the past the cashflow statement has not been needed. To clarify this, call the finaid office and ask to speak to a financial aid officer. There is one on call each day to answer questions.</p>
<p>collegeboard says that the documents should be sent to them by the specific college deadline i.e POSTMARKED by the college deadline. You are fine if you sent it on 28th, I sent it on 27th.</p>