<p>For those of you who forgot to send some of your materials or had them misplaced by Cornell, were you contacted by the admissions office recently or did you have to pester them until they responded?</p>
<p>I'm slightly worried since my parent prior year tax forms are still showing up as not being received (I sent all of my financial aid materials in one large folder using confirmed mail so I know for a fact that at least the envelope got there by 10/22). The other 3 sections have already been processed, but they've never bothered contacting me about the missing one. I only found out that it was missing last week (I had been checking for a over a month, but whenever I logged onto the the Financial Aid To Do List, I kept getting the "Peoplesoft sign-in thing" or whatever it was called). I sent them an e-mail over 10 days ago about it, but still, no response.</p>
<p>Normally I wouldn't be too concerned about this since assuming that I get in, the worst case scenario is that I wouldn't be able to get financial aid for my freshman year, which wouldn't be such a big deal. However, there was someone on another thread that said that Cornell had contacted her yesterday about missing financial aid materials in case she was admitted. I have been contacting them through e-mail about my missing materials for over a week and they haven't even bothered to acknowledge any of my messages. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I have a feeling that there are only 2 reasons for this. Either they haven't reviewed my application yet (I highly doubt this since all of my materials were received by the end of Thanksgiving break) or they already reviewed my application and deferred/rejected me already, so the missing financial aid stuff no longer matters.</p>
<p>This is just speculation, but I'm assuming that once the adcoms have made a decision, they then forward it to the people at the financial aid office, who in turn look at your financial aid materials and from the information provided, give you an estimated cost of attendance (I read somewhere that they notify you of this along with your decision, but I could be wrong). So if they've already deferred/rejected me, there would be no point to notify me of missing financial aid materials since it wouldn't matter anymore.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that you know more about this than I do, so perhaps you could shed some light on the subject.</p>
<p>Yea I had to constantly call from overseas. A lot of my stuff had to be sent twice (eeek I'm spending so much money sending stuff to Cornell!) because they missed or lost it.</p>
<p>Calling them is muccchhh better than emailing. I ended up faxing over my financial aid stuff to them on Dec 14 (hahaha late much? And I had one-night DHL-ed my original stuff $$!!)</p>
<p>I suggest you call them to figure it out right away what's wrong.</p>
<p>Don't worry...you may still get a call on Monday as it seems like things are really taking a long time. Once they have the info they can just plug it into their formulas and have your package ready. My thoughts are that they are just getting to financial aid now and realizing who is missing things a little more basic than the CSS. Don't worry!</p>