<p>Hi all. I sent my IDOC forms with my cover sheet and everything perfectly, but it's been a week and a half and they still haven't received it. Should I be worried?</p>
<p>How did you get the IDOC forms and cover sheet? We haven't received them, and when I went to the FAFSA site and did the online "chat" with the help person, she did not know what IDOC was. I'm confused.</p>
<p>You will be sent an email notification if any of the schools you applied to require your tax froms to be processed through the IDOC office. My D applied to 12 schools, but the only one we received an IDOC for was Georgetown. The other schools want us to send tax forms directly to their financial aid office.</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat as the OP but I sent my stuff to IDOC like 4 days ago. When I check the status on Collegeboard it says they haven't received anything.</p>
<p>Oh, I think you need to give it a week to be processed and into their systems. They are swamped right now, I am sure.</p>
<p>Did you send it priority mail?</p>
<p>I believe Duke uses IDOC, but I have yet to get an email...</p>
<p>Same here, college board shows not received yet. I even used post office tracking which says the paperwork was received by the college board on the 20th. Assuming they were swamped I've decided to stop worrying (even though every single piece of personal information is included in the package, which already makes me anxious).</p>
<p>They recommend on the cover sheet that you send it priority mail, which is more expensive, but gets there in 2 days. How long it takes them to process it once they receive it may be another story. I sent mine from Massachusetts Priority Mail through my local post office and it cost $4.05 per package. (For one IDOC and 11 individual schools, that was pretty expensive. ) But I just feel safer sending all that personal stuff Priority.</p>
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<p>At the end of the CSS Profile, I believe (I did it weeks ago...memory is foggy), it told me that Northwestern is an IDOC school and that we would be receiving an e-mail. Of my daughter's three CSS Profile schools, only NU uses IDOC. If you go back into your Profile, maybe it would tell you.</p>
<p>It doesn't make sense that they'd be "swamped". Doesn't the cover sheet make it a really quick processing?</p>
<p>I sent it via Priority Mail, and paid extra for delivery confirmation, which shows delivered on the 20th.</p>
<p>I had a couple of schools that said they used the IDOC sheet, but I never got one, and could not download it, so I just sent ALL my forms to everyone and I am hoping for the best. Am I the only on who found the financial aid process VERY confusing?</p>
<p>No, join the club. There are times when I truly believe that different "methods" of financial aid application, admission application, etc are just huge money-making rackets. It makes my blood boil. None of this was necessary when I applied to colleges 25 years ago, and I was one of the millions of baby-boomers. There were tons of us applying!</p>
<p>Ah-ha! I just checked again, and IDOC now shows all documents received, and in fact they even noted the date my post office receipt shows!</p>
<p>You know the same thing happened to me a couple days ago. I sent in my IDOC packet, complete with tiny post-its labeling everything that needed to be labeled about two weeks ago. I check yesterday (Saturday) and it <em>just</em> showed up on the website that they received it on Monday. </p>
<p>So, they probably received yours, but just didn't put it up on the website, because it seems to take about a week for them to acknowledge it. I feel kind of bad for the IDOC people. They must be swamped trying to get everything sent out to the colleges by the deadlines, which I hope they do! (mine is on March 1st....eekkk!)</p>
<p>Update: It says they received it on the 23rd and that it was sent out to my 2 colleges today. They're so slow.</p>