Hello:
I’ve applied for financial aid with the IDOC because Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins requested it.
There were several forms I completed, but there was one form “2017 US Federal Tax Return” that my “Noncustodial parent” had to complete.
I have no idea where my biological father is, where he lives, or any of his contact information, mostly because I haven’t contacted him in over a decade nor do I even want to. So how am I going to submit this form?
Thanks.
You need to prepare the Non-custodial parent Waiver request forms and submit them with supporting documentation. Yale has its own form. Dartmouth uses the form on CSS/College Board. I am not certain about your other two schools.
Oh my god they have WAIVERs thank the lords
The IDOC is used to send your documents so that the schools can verify what you put on your CSS Profile. Did you submit the Profile?
Contact those schools ASAP and find out how to request a non-custodial parent waiver. The colleges will tell you what you need to do.
You not wanting to contact him might not be sufficient info to qualify for a waiver. See what the colleges ask for and get the info NOW.
@cuterasberries
Based on what you posted, I Intepreted that you were saying you submitted the CSS profile and you submitted every document requested by IDOC that you could, and the remaining document listed as needed to upload in IDOC was the non-custodial parent tax return. Is that right? That is exactly what my child’s looked like at that point. Each University’s financial aid website should tell you what to do to request the waiver. You applied to some of the same schools that my child did. Let me know if you need me to point you in the right direction. Know that this might take a while to prepare the form, write the statements, and gather supporting documentation, so get on this asap. You may need to ask each school when they need it by–i.e. Is it due at the same time as the financial aid deadline? We sent the one for Dartmouth priority mail so it would arrive by the Feb 1st financial aid deadline. Also, the schools that have their own form will tell you on the form if you can mail, upload, fax, etc. For the ones that use the College Board form, you have to check each school’s website or call to find out how they want to receive it. Hope that helps.
First of all, YOU were never expected to fill out the form. Your dad is supposed to fill it out, not YOU…
Because of your situation, you’ll need to get a NCP waiver. Be aware that some schools accept few or no waivers.