<p>I'm a bit concerned over my application status for some of the colleges I applied to. Because I live with a single mother, I didn't submit any paperwork for my father's taxes. </p>
<p>So far, all the private colleges I have been admitted to, sent me some sort of email requesting the documentation or some sort of waiver beforehand. For example, I received these emails from Emory, Cornell, and Williams a little over a week before I received two likely letters, and an early write. </p>
<p>My top schools, Yale and Columbia, also require my father's documentation, but have yet to notify me of any missing financial aid forms. Admission decisions are out in less than a week! </p>
<p>I'm really worried now. Should I be? ...Or am I making a deal out of nothing?</p>
<p>my financial aid application for Columbia was very incomplete when I somehow miraculously received a likely letter (barely over a week ago) and I’m mostly sure I never got anything asking for the missing stuff. nothing asking for missing information from Yale either but I don’t know if I’m accepted there or not yet so take that how you will; I’m not worried that it means anything though if that helps</p>
<p>I had a similar situation; I live with my dad, and had asked my mom to send the CSS Noncustodial Profile in about a month before it was due. On December 13, I got an email saying that Yale didn’t have my mom’s info. I flipped. out. Got her to put it in the mail ASAP, was certain that I would at least be deferred. I was accepted. I didn’t get my finaid right away, but they got it to me before Christmas. The Yale FA office is very speedy. :)</p>
<p>^^ i agree with the posters above. You got nothing to worry about. If you still are worried, send an email to the Yale Financial Aid office, tell them about your situation and they will send you a Non-Custodial Parent Waiver. I know because I had you same situation and I did what they say above.</p>
<p>The poster is worried about that fact that colleges have not been requesting his missing financial forms. The concern is that this means no acceptance, since financial aid offers are made only to accepted students.</p>
<p>I’m in a very similar situation. My tax forms have all been late, because my dad had some issues with filing. Dartmouth emailed me, called me multiple times about them, before and after sending me a likely letter. Dartmouth eventually sent me a financial aid estimate before I sent in the forms. Wesleyan, where I received an early write, also sent me emails. Tufts and Cornell also sent me an email, but I do not know their decisions yet. Duke, where I was waitlisted, did not. </p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, and Princeton also did not.</p>
<p>So the situation looks rather bleak, eh? But there are exceptions. Boston College, where I was accepted to the honors college, never asked for the forms at all. They just didn’t give me an aid offer with the acceptance; I have to make up the forms within the next couple of weeks. My friend got a financial aid email from MIT, but was ultimately rejected. </p>
<p>I can’t offer any concrete advice since I’m basically in your shoes, but these are my experiences. It could just be that only the definite acceptances (that were also found early) were sent the emails? Or maybe the financial aid resources at these schools are so broad, that they can confidently provide estimates? Or they feel its your individual responsibility to apply for free money? I also read somewhere that colleges are required to randomly verify a certain percentage of the tax info, so that could also be a reason. It’s Sunday night already, don’t worry too much about it. :p</p>
<p>I also had missing docs and did not recieve an email so I went onto a Princeton thread from last year and many of the students who had recieved an email were later accepted.</p>
<p>Same thing happened to me. I just got a letter from Penn this saturday saying I’m was missing something. Hopefully this is an indication of good news to come. </p>
<p>After all, come tuesday night, if I didn’t already hate the school for rejecting me, I’d be really mad if they made me pay 80-some dollars to send them a CSS profile if they already knew they were going to rejected me.</p>
<p>I recently received an e-mail from FAFSA that my EFC had changed due to “your school”. They didn’t tell me which one. However, Yale was the only school where I had to submit my tax forms, so I hope this means good news.</p>
<p>I was missing alot of financial aid forms because my parents are really slow at filling them out, and none of my schools contacted me about them, so I was beginning to worry…but then I was accepted by wash u, u chicago, and northwestern. So I wouldn’t lose all hope if some schools haven’t contacted you about financial aid.</p>
<p>Well I am just going to assume that it means I am rejected. That way if the opposite is true I will be all the happy. Either way it is more likely that I am rejected than accepted.</p>
<p>That was my situation with MIT - they didn’t have anything but never updated my profile that they had received it. I ended up getting rejected. So while I hope this is not the same situation as you, pinkyy, it could be a possibility, unfortunately.</p>
<p>But who knows, it could mean nothing. Just wait and see.</p>