<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>My daughter just got an email from the financial aid office asking for MORE supplemental financial aid documents. At this late date, would they still be asking for more documents from someone who they are not planning to admit? Anyone else get such a late request? I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this means good news is coming her soon! </p>
<p>I'll post back after letters are sent out, so that others will know if there is any correlation.</p>
<p>I just wanted to add, that while the rest of the email requests for additional financial aid that she received from USC contained the disclaimer that it did not mean that she was accepted or admitted, this email did not contain any similar language. Instead, it stated:</p>
<p>"We encourage you to take advantage of the financial resources USC has to offer and are happy to help answer any questions you may have. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.usc.edu/contactfao.“>www.usc.edu/contactfao.</a>”</p>
<p>I just asked a good friend that is in admissions at another college (not a university but a technical college - so very different - she is also the finaid officer for her students). She said that the fafsa triggers a file to be made if you (parent/student) check that the fafsa be released to a certain school. </p>
<p>She has a “standard” email that she sends whenever a file is created and it regenerates if those docs do not get entered (such as asking for the profile). When she pulls the file and needs outstanding docs to work up an aid package after admission, then she asks for particulars that are not standard. She also added that she would never ask for extra documentation for a student that was not admitted.</p>
<p>Not sure if that helped at all but I found it interesting and it actually makes sense. With USC the problem is that you would have to know what is standard and what is not for it to help.</p>
<p>I did already post this on another thread, but would like to say again that I was asked for a LOT of personal information (monthly bills, etc) that no other school, even those my son was admitted to already, asked for. </p>
<p>A post subsequent to mine on that other thread relayed the thought that USC almost HAS to ask for all this stuff early, in order to process it all, but I cannot see why they would want it from ALL of the 15,000 or so kids who are being seriously considered for admission. Even if it’s standard for just the self employed (me, and I think at least one other parent who posts), surely many of the serious applicants’ parents are also self employed. Processing 8,000 admitted freshman, along with all those upperclassmen, would be crazy enough. Why would they WANT to know everybody’s monthly grocery bill?</p>
<p>I guess we’ll know more next week. If my son is not admitted, I’ll have some thoughts for the Financial Aid office.</p>
<p>I was also asked for additional info, but the requests could be automated. If x, y and z, send a, b or c email request. Don’t know. We will have to see.</p>
<p>Some schools have a random verification procedure. I was picked for verification this year. I was told that at my son’s school the verification is done regardless of what the admission decision is. Two separate offices. That does not mean your school works that way, however.</p>
<p>It appears from several other threads that Prodigy was accepted. Since he/she also posted about being asked for additional FA info recently, could there be something to this???</p>
<p>i also got a request for FA documents, but even after uploading them a couple days ago they still haven’t shown up… unlike for all my other things like CSS profile/FAFSA that showed up within the next day. maybe this is just a standard thing they send out & the rejected/ accepted applicants and then the rejected ones (like me maybe? i didn’t have the stats to get into USC) can’t be/aren’t processed like how i am.</p>
<p>Does this only happen to people applied for FA??</p>
<p>Just wanted to update this for next year’s applicants. My daughter got a very late (the week before acceptances went out) request for additional financial aid documents. She was accepted today at the Annenberg School of Communications. So there may be a correlation between a very late request for financial aid documents and acceptance.</p>