Questions about Harvard financial aid...

<p>1) the instructions on their website say "You should send signed photocopies of all pages and schedules of your parents' 2008 federal tax returns (including photocopies of all W-2 forms) to the College Board by March 1." So if I put the forms in the mail on February 28, am I okay?</p>

<p>2) On the "forms' section of the Harvard financial aid website, there is a "parental cashflow statement" that looks like this: <a href="http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/downloads/cashflow_statement.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/downloads/cashflow_statement.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>However, this statement is not mentioned anywhere in Harvard's financial aid instructions... what's the deal with this? Is it required or what?</p>