<p>Stanford has not requested to have IDOC send tax information, does it mean I am already rejected? Has anyone received request from IDOC to provide 2010 tax information to Stanford? </p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>IDOC is purely a College Board service and Stanford doesn’t handle IDOC. You should have gotten an email from College Board telling you how to mail in financial documents. Mine arrived about a week after I submitted the PROFILE.</p>
<p>This is just a general question, but what is the IDOC? I’m a first-gen college student, so I have a lot of questions with this whole process.</p>
<p>The “top” schools I applied to were Stanford, Wash. University in St. Louis, and Yale. I submitted my College Board profile the other day and received an email to submit my IDOC as well, but I’m not really sure why/if this is needed. I haven’t been contacted by any of the specific colleges to submit it. What should I do? Is it best to just submit it in order to be safe? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>^IDOC is the Institutional Documentation Service that’s run through College Board. A college applicant sends all their tax forms, W-2’s, 1099’s, and other various things to College Board, and each college who uses IDOC collects that data electronically from College Board – NOT directly from the candidate.</p>
<p><a href=“Institutional Documentation Service (IDOC) – CSS Profile | College Board”>Institutional Documentation Service (IDOC) – CSS Profile | College Board;
<p>Stanford may not have been on my son’s list either. I’m not quite sure about that. The Tax Document deadline for RD applicants is April 1. For REA applicants, it’s March 1. If Stanford wasn’t on my son’s IDOC list, I would assume it’s because Stanford has not yet released its RD decisions. Maybe they don’t want college Tax Documents on every single student who applied?? I can’t find his original IDOC email … so I can’t determine whether Stanford was listed or not.</p>
<p>@swafford, you simply need to follow all the instructions on the link that the IDOC email gives you. You’ll sign in. You’ll print a checklist. And you’ll submit everything that applies to you and your parents on that checklist. There are some links on the left hand side of the page once you sign in. They will provide you with forms that you might need. It’s kind of straightforward, once you sign-in. But there are a few things that you might miss at first … if you’re looking around for something that you can’t seem to find, check those links I told you about, and check the FAQ’s. </p>
<p>Good luck everybody!</p>
<p>^Uh-oh. I just found a way to check my son’s original IDOC requirements. Stanford WAS on his list!</p>
<p>If Stanford was not on your list, maybe they didn’t yet receive your CSS Profile? Did you submit the CSS Profile by the deadline? I wouldn’t freak out about it. But I would email Stanford’s financial aid office ASAP and ask them if they received your Profile, and if they can explain why IDOC is not showing Stanford as a school that requires your information. </p>
<p>We’ve gotten rather quick responses from their FA email address.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I never received anything about IDOC for any of the schools I applied to using the CSS Profile… should I be worried? I’m international though, so I’m not sure if that makes a difference.</p>
<p>^ You should have received an Email from CollegeBoard.</p>
<p>I started another thread about not receiving an email from college board re. Idocs. They are impossible to reach by phone.</p>
<p>You can check my thread in the financial aid forum: “Hour and a half on the phone re CSS and taxes” or something similar.</p>
<p>We never got an email with instructions. Some very kind soul gave us a link to go directly there.</p>
<p>^If you google IDOC, you can find a link that will take you there. Enter two out of three pieces of information (birthdate, SSN, CSS Profile #?), and you’re in.</p>
<p>I’m not sure internationals do IDOC, kaitlin. You should be able to google that as well, or find it somewhere on the collegeboard website, I would think.</p>
<p>Internationals do IDOC as well:
<a href=“Financial Aid Services”>Financial Aid Services;
<p>TO access IDOC, try login here:
<a href=“Institutional Documentation Service (IDOC) – CSS Profile | College Board”>Institutional Documentation Service (IDOC) – CSS Profile | College Board;
<p>This IDOC stuff is crazy! I never received an e-mail from College Board explaining IDOC. I was busy getting the noncustodial form waiver ready and, today, I went to the Stanford website to double check on the noncustodial form stuff and noticed the IDOC requirements. I then rushed to get the required forms copied and I sent a copy of them directly to Stanford and a copy of them to College Board. I hope it’s not too late! Then, I looked back and thought how bad it would be if the forms I mailed got lost and were opened by someone who isn’t supposed to see them. I’ll never understand why colleges insist on having third parties do important jobs like these.</p>
<p>“Your Next Step for Financial Aid” was the subject line in the IDOC email I got. You might find it by searching your mail for that. (check junk mail too, I guess!)</p>
<p>Just a heads up for other internationals - I emailed Stanford and they said I don’t have to do any of the IDOC stuff…</p>
<p>It would be cool if they made a Social Network-like film named The Plight of The Needy Student haha … “I think I turned in all of my financial aid requirements. Could you please check” (student)? “No, I don’t see your IDOC stuff here” (Fin Aid Rep). “But, I turned that in several weeks ago” (Student). “If you turned the IDOC forms in already, you would’ve turned the IDOC forms in already!” (Fin Aid Rep). haha</p>
<p>^ I don’t get the connection to Social Network at all…</p>
<p>It isn’t really strongly connected apart from the lines, “If you invented Facebook, you would’ve invented Facebook” and “If you turned the IDOC forms in already, you would’ve turned the IDOC forms in already!”</p>
<p>cough* Not funny cough*… </p>
<p>AT ALL</p>
<p>Just to make sure everyone’s aware - If you were admitted REA to Stanford you received a nice big envelope with “Congratulations!” written on the front, enclosed was an envelope with admit letter, financial aid offer, AND a green piece of paper that lists add’l documents required including IDOC. Seems like Stanford doesn’t download IDOC though until the regular decision phase is complete? (Not sure if someone can comment on this last comment).</p>
<p>After going through this process , I can add the following:
IDOC is a service where you submit your 2010 tax returns, W2 stuff, student non filing tax form( most of the students) and many colleges subscribe to download them from this central source.
Having said that few colleges like Princeton, for example, do not subscribe to IDOC and you need to send the docs directly.</p>