<p>On Cornell's Financial Aid website, it tells us to mail in our financial aid application and all supporting documents. However, I've found a page that allows us to submit documents electronically. After you submit a document electronically, the confirmation page tells you to NOT mail or fax in the documents that you've already submitted online. Can anyone confirm that it's okay to send your tax returns, passport photocopy, etc. this way?</p>
<p>I tried to send electronically, but it said ‘invalid file type’. I am sure my attachments were PDF files. Please tell me how you did it? Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>lily2208:</p>
<p>I get the same message when trying to send electonically. I’m trying to send PDF files also.</p>
<p>Anyone have a clue what is going on?</p>
<p>I successfully sent a PDF today. Perhaps the system went down this afternoon.</p>
<p>Note they require a signed 1040 so I was told by finaid to sign, scan and upload that one pg and rest sent (pdfs) on uploader with it.</p>
<p>For some reason I could not upload to Cornell from my PC in pdf format. However, I had my D put the pdf file on her Mac and send. It worked on the Mac!</p>
<p>I have the exact same problem as some of you. I try to send pdfs as well but the website says it an invalid file type. I just thought of something random - could it be that the website wants .pdf and mine are capital instead (.PDF) at the end of the document? Does it even make a difference? Is this the case for you who couldn’t submit?</p>
<p>@AmiraA</p>
<p>I got the same file extension in caps when I scanned documents. And the same errors trying to upload. I ended up borrowing my husband’s work computer that had Adobe Acrobat and creating new .pdf’s. Maddening.</p>
<p>I had some similar difficulty. I then tried it using Mac’s firefox browser and it worked just fine. I don’t think putting .pdf in upper or lower case makes a difference. Hope this helps. Good luck to you.
p.s. they also accept documents by fax</p>
<p>Thanks guys. I did the same thing - scanned the documents as jpeg and then converted them to .pdf (lower case letters) with Adobe Acrobat. And then it worked!</p>
<p>Did you guys send these documents because Cornell contacted you guys to send them or just did it voluntarily/???</p>
<p>^ Cornell didn’t contact me about it. I sent the documents required for the financial aid application. Sending them electronically is just another way to do it. It’s faster, safer and free (especially for an international student)! :)</p>
<p>When I tried to use Chrome, it didn’t upload but when I used Internet Explorer, i was able to upload the documents. Maybe it’s just a problem with chrome??</p>
<p>I had the same problem uploading using Chrome. Switched to IE and it worked fine. Now I know anytime I have a problem like that it’s because of Chrome - which I like much better, btw, except for times like this :-/</p>
<p>But I thought that international students are supposed to send the documents only if cornell requests for them?</p>