<p>For returning students, how long after the CSS profile was completed was the IDOC number emailed? Our CSS profile was submitted last Thursday, but we haven't gotten and email with the IDOC number to submit our tax documents. Anyone recall what the wait time has been?</p>
<p>The IDOC process is new to Vanderbilt this year, so I’m not sure that you will get an answer to your question unless some students or parents have experience with it at other schools.</p>
<p>You can actually get into the IDOC without the IDOC number, though you have to be set up in IDOC. You can put in SS# and student name (I think) and it is enough. But if that doesn’t work, then your CSS profile has not gotten far enough for the IDOC to be available. I know it took mine a few days, but I don’t remember how long.</p>
<p>In case you are still waiting on your email from IDOC, I wanted to let you know that it took 10 days for us to receive the email. We submitted the CSS Profile on Tuesday, Feb. 18th and just received the email from IDOC this morning (Friday, Feb. 28th). YMMV.</p>
<p>Ours took 7 days from completing the css.</p>
<p>Ours took 3 weeks. Maybe they send out monthly emails. It seems like all those that filed in and before some point in Feb. got the email 2/27-28.</p>
<p>For any of you who are regular decision, is Vanderbilt actually on your list of IDOC schools when you log into IDOC? Son applied to another school who only asks IDOC of admitted students, and the way I first knew he was accepted was when the IDOC showed up. Vandy isn’t showing on his right now …</p>
<p>That’s clever Dadio3. I called financial aid this morning and they told me that an IDOC request wont be sent until student is admitted. If it worked for another school than it should work for Vanderbilt I would think.</p>
<p>Here is something I wished I’d known in advance; IDOC supplementary materials take a long time to be posted to your account. We submitted the CSS profile in January and got a notice from the College Board on Feb 5, 2014, requesting copies of tax returns (on behalf of 2 schools, Brown and Northwestern) to be mailed by priority mail in in their offices by March 5 to meet the school deadlines. I mailed hard copy on Thursday 2/27. I am checking the IDOC website every day and the tax returns are still not posted to our account (“we still have not gotten the materials from you” is the notice on the page.) I have called admissions at both schools – one said deadline was not a hard deadline, check back Friday March 7, and the other said the deadline was actually Monday, March 10. I also called the College Board, and they said don’t worry, as long as the paperwork was in their office by March 5 we will be fine. But of course I can’t stop worrying - don’t want IDOC to reduce our chance for financial aid consideration. Does anyone have any experience with IDOC upload delays, and could this affect a financial aid offer? My S applied RD so admission decisions are not due until end of month. Don’t know when they are actually made, of course. </p>
<p>IDOC is crazy slow – it is hard for me to imagine there isn’t a faster, better way in this day and age than printing out all your tax info and all the other forms, stuffing them into a huge envelope, and mailing it all to the College Board. I also had to make a change to my initial CSS Profile, and I called one school to see if they would just use the IDOC information for my tax info since I had been off by about $10k on my estimates. They said they cannot since they just use IDOC for verification, so I had to fax a crossed-out CSS Profile to every school. So to your question, they are barely using the IDOC for anything other than double-checking your CSS Profile accuracy, so I wouldn’t worry much about its timing.</p>
<p>I spoke with fin aid office who indicated that they sent all the IDOC requests for already admitted students, (ED1 and 2) on 2/27. So don’t think it was tied to date CSS was filed. </p>
<p>trying to figure out what documents are required by Vanderbilt for IDOC, since other schools’ requirements are already in there and calling and emailing IDOC has been frustrating to say the least. they seem quite uninformed, ie. told me to send in the NCP waiver from Vanderbilt, which is not required as Vanderbilt does not look at NCP.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Vanderbilt requires the business/farm supplement, and the dependent verification form?
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<p>IDOC will send you an email with your account number on it that tells you exactly what forms you need to mail to them. My son is a first year student at Vanderbilt so I’m not sure if it is different for applicants.</p>
<p>thanks momofthree. yes, I have the IDOC account and have the list,however since my child was accepted ED2, so there were applications already sent to several other colleges who are also listed on the IDOC form and it’s hard to know which requirements are only for Vanderbilt. Those schools can’t be removed from IDOC (I checked) and so we just want to confirm what the actual requirements are for Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>I’m not sure about that. Maybe someone else with a NCP waiver will chime in. You can try calling the financial aid office at the school. Last year you mailed your tax forms to the school so IDOC verification is new to them too this year. </p>
<p>Good luck and congratulations on your child’s acceptance!</p>
<p>Can other Vandy RD applicants (not already accepted) log into their IDOC ( idoc.collegeboard.org ). After logging in, click on check status and see whether Vandy shows up in your list of IDOC schools. Is Vanderbilt there or not? If not, probably no big deal unless someone else has them there already. Just curious …</p>
<p>I dont have it either</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is not there. The only school there is a school my son got into a few days ago. Hmmm. </p>
<p>On other school son got into only requested IDOC for admitted students (like Vanderbilt). That school showed up a couple of days early. Just thought I would check. Son is not a shoe-in for Vanderbilt, so I am not a good litmus test :-)</p>
<p>Interesting… Oh, well, we’ll find out soon enough! I don’t know if anyone is a shoe-in these days. Vanderbilt sure gives great financial aid, if the Net Price Calculator is accurate!</p>