<p>My dad has been really busy lately so we've yet to send in the W2 and the other forms that we need to. Was there a deadline that we've crossed already and if so, will getting the forms in late decrease my chances for admission or a large financial aid award? </p>
<p>I've asked him many times to finish them, but he is so swamped in work right now that he hasn't yet, and I don't want to keep annoying him about it. </p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>He's writing the check for BS, isn't he?</p>
<p>If so, then I'll go out on a limb and say that he's got the financial aid component covered and prioritized. The schools communicate with parents regarding open items and deadlines. If you've reminded him already, then you've reminded him and the ball's in his court. He's a grown-up. He knows what's at stake (and may have concluded "not much" for all I know). </p>
<p>I know you're asking for ideas about how to get him to take action on the financial aid application, but all anyone here can offer you are general thoughts on how you can communicate better with your parents. And that's pretty deep stuff, carries a lot of baggage we know nothing about and, well, it's sort of beyond the purview of this message board. I mean we could say, "Keep asking him," post a note on the refrigerator, write a message in your mom's lipstick on the bathroom mirror, scribble a reminder on a Whoopee-cushion you hide in his favorite chair," but we'd all be stabbing in the dark. It's your family/dad...either trust him to know what he's doing or figure it out yourself because it won't get easier to communicate your needs to him when you're at BS.</p>
<p>Thanks, that makes sense. I guess I wasn't really asking for suggestions on how to communicate with him because we do that pretty well already, but I'm just kind of worried that even if I am accepted I won't be able to go because of financial constraints. Things will work out I guess, though.</p>
<p>yeah that happened 2 me 2</p>
<p>He should be able to send them off on Monday (fingers crossed).</p>
<p>the boarding schools we applied .They did not ask me for W2 or any tax form at all.</p>
<p>Were you applying for financial aid, though?</p>
<p>my dad also hasn't sent in the 2006 federal tax return..but he says that he called the school and they said they only need it after march 10th to confirm their decision if they decide to award you financial aid.... ?</p>
<p>Each school is different, but if the 1040 simply confirms the PFS information and is consistent with the 2005 Form 1040, then it's not going to be critical. But if the 2006 Form 1040 reflects a material change from the PFS, it would behoove all concerned to get it in earlier rather than later.</p>
<p>I wasn't able to complete the information by Jan. 31 so I sent it in later. But in that interim one school wrote to me with a form letter that had a checklist of the missing FA materials and deadlines and they asked for my 2006 1040 form to be mailed to them by April 16...the date for filing tax returns this year and obviously it's only needed at that point if the school accepts my son and he decides to go there...which, obviously, would be a decision based on some sort of decision from the school on FA. In that case at least -- and I suspect it's not an isolated case -- the school does not refrain from making a FA decision if it doesn't have a Form 1040.</p>
<p>Again, parents who will actually foot the bills are likely to be on top of this process and these concerns about as much as applicants are on top of the up or down admission decisions. This is way too important to every parent applying for FA to assume they're oblivious to these things. Or at least the more important it is to a parent, the more aware they are going to be about the timing requirement for their 2006 1040s. </p>
<p>Of course if there are divorces involved all bets are off as there may be other dynamics at play in terms of incentives and disincentives for sending in those 1040s.</p>
<p>I'm breathing a sigh of relief now because my dad mailed off the 1040s and W2s to all three of the schools. PHEW! :)</p>