<p>I sent the CSS profile about a month ago but today when I checked the financial aid checklist , my documents are still listed as Not Received Is it a sign that I am rejected/waitlisted?
Since if they have considered my fin aid application, they would also update the documents status?</p>
<p>Question - where do you even find the financial aid checklist?</p>
<p>Probably not. Admissions and financial aid are done separately. They only listed all of my financial aid documents on Monday, and I submitted them over a month ago. There’s just a lot of paper to get through.</p>
<p>At this time, the admissions office have already decided who to admit/ waitlist/ reject. Will they pass the list of admit student to the financial aid office?
Since they are like thousands of application for financial aid, I don’t think the financial office are going to process them all. Just a wild guess.
@ocgirl: log in to your application tracking system and there will appear two links:Current Admission Applications and Columbia U Financial Aid System Online. Click on the second link and it will redirect to the financial aid tracking site. You then have to activate your account at the financial aid site.</p>
<p>TBH I’m mostly assuming it has nothing to do with who gets accepted/rejected because my papers were processed very very recently and I’m certain I’m about to be rejected. Also, I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that the financial aid office calculates a finaid packages for everyone, because they’re making decisions up to the last minute.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m on the financial aid website and I activated my financial aid account.</p>
<p>But all it says is
"Welcome _________!</p>
<p>Columbia University’s educational financing options consist of federal, state, institutional and private sources of funds that will help meet the diverse needs of the student population. Columbia recognizes the importance of choices in educational financing and hopes that the options provided will be useful in planning and managing educational expenses.</p>
<p>Before you and your family begin to explore these options, we ask that you read the disclosure below regarding the suggested lenders featured on this website."</p>
<p>And there’s some more text… and then it lists several contact numbers of different Columbia offices (i.e. Public Health, Dental Medicine). There’s no link for me to click - anywhere!</p>
<p>At the top, it says Current Award Year: 2010-2011.</p>
<p>But again, there’s no link for me to click to find out anything!</p>
<p>yeah that’s what it says on my FA account too</p>
<p>Does it mean anything??
ahh I’m dying</p>
<p>You should call. My CSS was listed as Non Received Yet until yesterday, when I phoned them. I might be wrong but I think that if you do not phone them and explain them you sent it and have them looking for it right now, it looks like you sent nothing. I had sent mine several weeks ago.</p>
<p>my “messages” tab is missing - rejection?</p>
<p>No I don’t think that’s relevant to your decision. The same thing happened to my documents. I called them and they told me that it takes a while for their software to update the accounts.</p>
<p>Call them and make sure they received your documents. Either way, it won’t affect their decision.</p>
<p>My messages tab is gone too but I don’t think it implies anything. </p>
<p>My account was last updated on 19/11/2009. I will call them first thing on Monday to check.
But hypothetically if the status of financial documents are still not updated on April 1st morning, does it imply rejection? 
Anyway, I am pretty sure that I cannot get in so I’m just hopefully looking for sign that I maybe waitlisted lol :D</p>
<p>I just checked, all my documents are in! Thank god, I was freaking out when I saw this list.</p>
<p>my w2 forms are “not recieved”. i sent them in late, like a couple weeks ago… should i call?</p>
<p>I called Columbia several weeks ago about my FAFSA and found out that they only download your financial aid if you are accepted.</p>
<p>what do “packaging” and “disbursement” mean? There’s a column that says “required for” and most of my documents have packaging and some have disbursement.
@Jamaica: are you sure about that? So if my FAFSA is uploaded and listed as recieved then I can consider myself accepted??</p>
<p>Thats what I was told from the financial aid office.</p>
<p>There is no WAY that’s true. Maybe they meant they only post a financial aid package on their website if you’re accepted or something.</p>
<p>^^I’m sort of confused. Do you mean on the financial aid checklist that FAFSA is listed as recieved and shows up as a link that takes you to your application? (isn’t that how it is for everyone?)</p>
<p>OK…let me break it down. I applied to more than 10 schools. You can only send your FAFSA to 10 schools at once. Columbia was in my first batch…so I had to call them to see if they downloaded my financial aid so I can take them off the list of schools for the FAFSA and send it to the other 3 schools I applied to…I call their financial aid department to ask if they downloaded my FAFSA, they replied “we wait to download FAFSA until after the student is accepted”. I dont know what to tell you guys, but those are the exact words the financial aid office said…Thats just what they said…take from it what you want.</p>
<p>seriously? why would they reveal that? can likely people check their tracker to confirm this</p>