<p>I decided I didn't care about Northwestern anymore, so I didn't bother sending in my IDOC packet for their required date of march 5th. </p>
<p>Brown's IDOC deadline is March 10th. But, IDOC says the deadline is that the packet has to be received March 6th. But it lists Northwestern as one of the schools I'm looking for financial aid at.</p>
<p>Do I just need to send out the packet on March 10th?</p>
<p>Send it ASAP and don’t worry about it. Can’t hurt to send it in “early”.</p>
<p>IDOC’s online status shows that they received our tax return documents & W-2’s on March 2, but it hasn’t yet listed in their online status any dates on when they’ve released the documents to the colleges. So, it looks like the documents from IDOC will be sent to the colleges a few days after the colleges’ IDOC deadlines.</p>
<p>I’m worried that our daughter’s financial aid application won’t be considered in time for the schools’ “priority deadline” – should I be worried? Or, are most colleges flexible on their filing deadlines, esp. when they’ve received all of the other req’d docs (FAFSA, CSS, etc.)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>should be flexible. they won’t lower your aid because you’re a bit late. however, if YOU are late, THEY have the right to be late also–which will probably happen. they won’t get back to you by april 1st if you submit late.</p>
<p>I sent my IDOC packet on Feb. 28th and my status shows that collegeboard still have not received it. I already emailed through their query form but they have not responded. Any ideas on what I can do?</p>
<p>wazmo:</p>
<p>We’re in the same boat. We sent ours in March 1 (priority mail), but we also had a ridiculous snowstorm on the east coast that could have delayed it. I got an email from College Board two days ago saying they hadn’t yet received our packet, and when I checked her status again today it still says it hasn’t been received. </p>
<p>I went ahead and called the number they listed, and all I got was a message saying this is their peak season and that they are behind, please be patient and all IDoc reports to the colleges will reference the postmarked date that you mailed it. I went ahead and sent an email anyway.</p>
<p>There must be thousands of us in the same situation. We couldn’t do IDoc until we finished our taxes, and that wasn’t until the end of Feb. I’m really not worried about it. Any time I’ve ever emailed College Board, they’ve replied promptly. I’d expect the hear from them by Monday or Tuesday. </p>
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<p>I mailed the IDOC on the Friday before the due date (Feb 27). They finally processed it on March 11 with a Receipt Date (not a postmark date) of the Monday after I mailed it (March 2).</p>
<p>I didn’t even get any IDOC emails because apparently they’ve been going to my spam folders the whole time.
My parents are going to priority-mail it today. Wow ■■■ :(</p>
<p>The private schools I applied to are
MIT, Brown, UPenn, NYU, and Stanford.
Does anyone know their respective due dates? (I know Browns is March 10, as someone above mentioned)</p>
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<p>This gave me my chuckle of the day. I NEVER had particularly good luck contacting the College Board by email or by phone. When they LOST my daughter’s scores…they basically ignored every email and call we sent their way except to send us automated email replies…not to us…very generic. Eventually they found the scores…but even THEN they didn’t send us an email to say so. The scores just appeared one day in the mail.</p>
<p>Now…back to the topic.</p>
<p>FOLKS it’s the middle of March. If your school requires IDOC documents to process financial aid…GET IT SENT. Admissions decisions along with financial aid offers are getting ready to be sent. It takes time to process these things on the college end. As stated many times before (maybe parents of this year’s high school juniors will heed this advice)…the year your child is a freshman in college is NOT the year to complete your taxes at the end of Feb. It’s the year to complete them at the BEGINNING of Feb. Most schools have deadlines for a reason…and most are at the beginning of March at the latest.</p>
<p>Remember…any financial aid award you get before your documents are finalized (FAFSA/Profile amended to reflect completed tax returns) will be ESTIMATES. Your finalized financial aid award could change once the figures from your completed taxes are entered on the Profile and FAFSA…or if your IDOC docs don’t reflect what you put on your forms.</p>
<p>Get this done.</p>