<p>I did my federal and state taxes and mailed the IDOC alonwith federal taxes to the collegeboard. So what ix next?</p>
<p>Do I correct the FAFSA numbers? Am I supposed to mail a copy of my taxes to colleges also?</p>
<p>I just sent my IDOC in as well.</p>
<p>Check with the non-IDOC schools, some want the Tax forms and some don't. Some want them faxed and some mailed. sigh</p>
<p>CU Boulder said they were just getting ready to pull the FAFSA's next week. If I correct it now they said it will save me some time so I am correcting them this weekend. I was only off by $500 on the income and the rest is right but I was told to correct it anyway. sigh</p>
<p>Okay FAFSA is corrected too. My income has to be adjusted downwards less than $30 what I estimated in FAFSA initially.</p>
<p>Newparent: Every school is different. Read each school's financial aid website very carefully. If you have doubt about anything, call. Ask to speak to a financial aid officer; often a student answers the phones but you want to be absolutely certain that you get the correct information as to what is needed.</p>
<p>Make sure you not only check each school's website, but DOUBLEcheck it! I thought I had everything mapped out, but I just found out that I was supposed to send tax forms to one of the schools & somehow missed that. I found out by emailing the financial aid director. I had received an automated call about the f/a preferred date being the 15th. Because I had submitted FAFSA a couple weeks earlier, I called the number they left to check. I was told all forms were in. Two days ago, I received a letter encouraging me to get my info in. I ended up emailing the director & asking if I was missing anything. He emailed back & told me I needed to send tax forms. If I hadn't contacted him, I would never have known (actually, they would have eventually contacted me, but this way I've submitted things in a timely manner). The moral is, double-check ... and if they send you something, don't ignore it ... ask about it.</p>
<p>How do you know if you're supposed to do the IDOC???</p>
<p>IDOC is tied into the CSS/PROFILE. So if you didn't have to fill that out, you won't have to do an IDOC. If you did fill out CSS/PROFILE, the processing service actually lets you know if you need to do an IDOC. Not that many schools use it, and the two I had to do it for made sure we knew we needed to do it. It's not that bad ... you just have to do a verification worksheet (simple) and submit taxes & schedules. The pain part was that we also had to submit all 1099 forms, so I had a bunch of copies to make. But at least you only send 1 set of info, no matter how many schools it's for! :)</p>