<p>I don't know about yahoo, but you can do it on Outlook or Outlook Express- also, I contacted an individual aid officer at each school for tax submission rather than the general email address an intern might process and I asked them to confirm receipt, as I recall they did</p>
<p>Now, after copying & mailing our extremely long personal and corporate tax forms to all these schools do I see this brilliant idea to scan and email the documents! </p>
<p>Somemom that has to be the best idea I've heard yet!</p>
<p>Just send $ for the brilliant idea- wait no, that will affect my EFC- just enjoy it ;) I'm all about efficiency and was not in the US when first filing FAFSA, it was the creative way to meet deadlines, then I realised how much easier it was than sending paper</p>
<p>The downside is that theoretically it is not completely protected unless the school has secure server upload, so some evil hacker could intercept it, but all the hackers/spammers I know are busy selling p**** enlargement pills and they would laugh and choose not to steal my identity after reviewing my 1040, so I take the chance.</p>
<p>you emailed it to schools? you're alowed to do that?</p>
<p>personally, I don't see the point of having IDOC. it's less copying, but more confusion (after all, it's through CB)</p>
<p>IDOC is for the schools. It's much easier on them. The processing center handles & stores the paperwork, and they verify the numbers. I have worked in financial aid, and the paperwork is overwhelming. Hiring a company to handle that part of it is a great idea!</p>
<p>Bonmar wrote: Thumper, each school did not ask for my son's ssn but his college id number (which was different for each school). Therefore, I could have not done what you suggested. </p>
<h2>However, next year, when we are only dealing with one school, you better believe I will scan and e-mail just as somemom did....just more great advice from another cc poster.</h2>
<p>Bonmar, you can. This is may seem little technical but it is not difficult - any one can do it:
Scan the document (without any college id number on it) in say word. Then in the word document add a text box (there are a set of drawing tools in all versions of MS Word, certainly Office 98 onwards) and incorporate the college id. Save the document(s) for each college in a folder. Submit them through email. Then open the document(s), change the ids to next college id, save them in another folder, attach them to a new email and send to the next college and so on.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>The public colleges typically ask for paper copies, I think private ones accept / prefer electronic copies (makes so much easy for everyone).</p>
<p>"somemom: Just send $ for the brilliant idea- wait no, that will affect my EFC- just enjoy it ....."</p>
<p>2forcollege: I am willing to accept that $ that somemom let go! I will take the "now and certain $" instead of "unsure and unknown $" from aid! I am Ok if my EFC goes up; I will have the source ($ you give) to fulfil that :)</p>
<p>Hmm, how about a finders fee, percentage of aid granted for brilliant ideas ;) Maybe just a worthy donation to Sinner's Alley!</p>
<p>Askme, thanks for the technical tip. I will remember that it is possible in the future. As you can tell, I am not computer savvy!! Also, unfortunately, all I can contribute to the Sinner's Alley foundation is a pat on the back and a smile (I would attach a smiley face to the end of that sentence but I don't know how to do that either!!)</p>
<p>ask me 02 --- thanks for the tech tip---helpful</p>
<p>My s applied to 10 schools--several ok with fax, others wanted docs mailed, only one was ok w email--btw--that was Duke--so important to check w the specific schools</p>