<p>Its almost here!! And we have just realized that we have to mail the check, yikes!! How come I did not know this? I naturally assumed it will be online..........this takes away those extra few days of deliberation we were looking forward towards the end. Hoping son would change his mind ;)</p>
<p>Yes, I’ve been thinking about this, too. Lucky for me, my favorite school for D is one that has online payment… To be fair, I’d better check the other choices.</p>
<p>I didn’t know that either.</p>
<p>Oh, I better check also. I always assumed that everything is online.</p>
<p>My son still has not decided yet.</p>
<p>I think it just has to be postmarked by 5/1 but that may just be my son’s school.</p>
<p>Yup, I do think that they will be ok if it is postmarked by May 1. Please check the websites to make sure.</p>
<p>USC and Miami are online, I have checked.</p>
<p>My D’s college doesn’t even want a deposit. Somehow, that makes me uneasy. Doesn’t feel like a real transaction.</p>
<p>One of my daughter’s didn’t mention a deposit either, just had to check you were coming online, it said no deposit needed. I was grateful since I had to send her sister’s.</p>
<p>Wait, we have to mail checks? Like, in the mail? I’m glad you said that because I also assumed it would be an online payment.</p>
<p>I think at all of the schools that accepted my son it’s mail only. Accepting online payment seems to be one of those things that really taxes college IT departments.</p>
<p>And at least a couple of the acceptance packages specified that they need to have the check in hand by May 1. So do be careful to check. (Of course May 1 is a Saturday this year, so the de facto deadline is probably May 3.)</p>
<p>We were able to pay by credit card, online.</p>
<p>Credit card online! :)</p>
<p>WashU STL is not online, thats how I got nervous and we are abroad. </p>
<p>Please post your college names here so we can raise a flag for others.</p>
<p>Also, colleges have been notified that the volcano in Iceland did affect some mail to/from overseas applicants. It’s possible that there will be a bit of leeway in that case. You might want to check to see that they received the check, or at least know it is on the way.</p>
<p>Northwestern accepts deposits online for tuition and housing. Interestingly, while Visa is an acceptable payment method for the deposit, it is not for future payments (which I wouldn’t want to use anyway because it costs an addition 2.75% so they must be having us pay the discount rate that most businesses normally absorb as a cost of doing business … but it’s okay since we can set up electronic transfer from our checking account, if desired.)</p>