<p>I am just sick about this; I have coordinated everything for my daughter's applications except the financial aid portion. Although our EFC would indicate we will not qualify for financial aid, my husband insisted we apply for it. However, we have been unable to submit all required documents (primarily 2006 tax returns) because we're still waiting for information to include on schedules.</p>
<p>Yesterday I was finally able to convince him to send three schools' financial aid offices emails explaining the situation so the schools know we are aware of being late and are not oblivious to the deadlines. He copied me on the emails and I found he neglected to change the wording, so the last line of the emails is "D is extremely excited about the possibility of attending (WRONG COLLEGE NAME)" -- he didn't change the name of the school but sent the same one college name to all three! I followed up this morning with emails to the 2 schools, reiterating her interest in attending the CORRECT SCHOOL in a slightly humorous manner.</p>
<p>Do you think this will hurt her chances at these schools? I would assume at this point most schools have decided to admit or not admit and the financial aid office is pulling together numbers and letters are being written and prepared for mail. I hope this isn't serious enough that a school would change their admission decision. What do you think?</p>
<p>I think you're fine as far as admissions is concerned. But I have a question - did you send everything except the 2006 returns? If you haven't sent anything, you may be out of luck.</p>
<p>I think it is a common mistake and you corrected it. I think the adcoms' decisions are made and you are just dealing with the FA offer. I'm sure they have seen this before. </p>
<p>If I recall, can't you send in the prior year's tax returns in the meantime until the most recent ones are ready? My hubby dealt with this one aspect of the college process as I helped with all the rest but I recall using the other tax returns until the newest were ready and then filed as well at that time. I forget the details now.</p>
<p>You all are great! Thanks for helping a mom obsessed with doing all this PERFECTLY see the humor in the situation. You're right, they shouldn't admit him! As for me . . . I should get in! I have to constantly remind myself, this is about D, not me.</p>
<p>We have sent 2005 returns to a few schools but the ones that collect documents through IDOC will not take them.</p>
<p>Dont; worry about it. Given the amount of info they see, and the systemization required to process it all, it's surely way down the list of things they would care about. And they're also parents who have made boo-bos along the way. </p>
<p>Added to what I already wrote, I agree with the point that it was your husband who wrote it, not your daughter. Had your daughter written that on her app in the "Why I want to go to X College" essay prompt, different story. But this was written by a parent, not the applicant, and also to the FA office, not the office deciding on her admissions (already decided, I'm sure). </p>
<p>When my older D applied to college, one of her rec writers tried to individualize her recs to her 8 colleges. The first letter he wrote was to Yale. Long after she applied, in looking over copies of the recs, I noticed that for the other 7 schools, he substituted the name of the school about four times mentioned in the body of the text EXCEPT the last time he mentioned the college at the end of the letter about how he thought she'd be a good match or some such for X college but that time he accidentally left in "Yale". So, ALL her colleges got letters that ended with recommending her for Yale. Upshot? She got in everywhere BUT Yale and was waitlisted at Princeton. It was clearly his mistake, not my D's and it made no difference in her outcome.</p>
<p>If any of the three schools offer need-blind admissions, you can rest assured that the admissions office will not even see this information before the decisions are made.</p>