<p>i got an email from Harvard asking for the following information for FA.</p>
<p>*Photocopies of your parents complete 2003 federal income tax return, including all schedules filed (we have received a Notice of Assessment for each but require the entire tax return, as filed with Revenue Cananda)</p>
<p>however, my father isn't really sure what they're looking for... could someone who applied to Harvard FA help me clarify this? He has already sent the summary of his tax return, apparently, they wanted more information.</p>
<p>Did you fill out the College Board's IDOC form? It required the full tax forms, etc. it's available at idoc.collegeboard.com . If you're working from Canada, though, it could be different.</p>
<p>Hey, I got a similar email but asking for other forms. If they're asking for this stuff to complete our applications this close to April 1st, does that mean they are assembling our ACCEPTANCE packages?</p>
<p>Hey, I got a similar email but asking for other forms. If they're asking for this stuff to complete our applications this close to April 1st, does that mean they are assembling our ACCEPTANCE packages?</p>
<p>Princetonwannabe - I don't quite understand your confusion. You said your father sent a SUMMARY. They want to see ALL THE ACTUAL FORMS - exact duplicates of what went to the government, NOT just a summary. Seems pretty clear!</p>
<p>This has been discussed on other threads..........Colleges do NOT ask all of their applicants for supplemental financial aid information or verification. The question was posed as to why it would be needed "this late in the game". While I agree that it could be considered "grasping at straws", there is absolutely no way, no way, that a school would ask for supplemental information for ALL of their applicants. It's surely not a bad sign, but most letters requesting financial aid info from colleges state that the letter is not an acceptance letter. I just received a request for my parents 1040 from The College of William and Mary. They received 10,600 applications this year for approximately 1,300 spots. I seriously doubt that they would ask EVERY applicant for additional info................at least not in March?????? And yet, I'm grasping too..............................</p>
<p>Well, I can certainly vouch for Ivy League admissions, and their policy is that every applicant should submit those tax forms to ensure they get their financial aid award if they are accepted.</p>
<p>I am a little perplexed by the confusion in this thread; however, from what I can gather from the conversations taking place are the following:</p>
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<li>Someone was required to send in more documentation to complete their tax information requirements.</li>
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<p>When this happens, it usually means that copies of the complete tax return were not received. When filing taxes, there are sometimes extra documents that have to be filed called schedules. They are various reasons why it would be necessary to file these documents: self-employment, business ownership, real estate ownership, etc. From what I can see, your father must not have sent in all of the documents that accompanied his tax forms. I am also not certain how different Canada and America are when it comes to filing taxes, so there could be some document that was neglected; however, all you father would have had to do was copy ALL the pages of his tax return and send it to whoever he was instructed to send the information to.</p>
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<li>Supplemental forms were requested.</li>
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<p>Sometimes supplemental forms are requested after submitting the PROFILE or the FAFSA. For instance, there are certain questions that cause the Business/Farm Supplement and the Non-Custodial Parent Agreement Profile to be requested. Usually, these requests are made automatically, and other times members of the financial aid office that review submitted documents find that further explanation is needed based on inconsistent information or other variables that infer that there is some sort of form that needs to be requested. Then, it is manually requested. Often times, mistakes are made, and the forms are requested accidentally.</p>
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<li>Does supplemental forms being requested so late mean that you are accepted?</li>
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<p>No. Supplemental forms, again, are often times automatically requested. Sometimes schools don't waste time informing students that haven't been accepted to the school that they need to complete supplemental forms to make their lives easier. However, if the school practices standard procedure, then they will request all information required to complete a financial aid profile so that it doesn't begin to suggest that students have been accepted. Financial aid decisions and admission decisions are not directly related at all except for the fact that the students being reviewed for financial aid must have applied to the school.</p>
<p>There is no "confusion". As I mentioned before, this has been discussed on other threads. Speaking for my own situation. I am a twin and together we have applied to 9 schools. My father filled out all of the FAFSA forms correctly. We don't fit any of the criteria that you mentioned above as a possibility (ie. non-custodial parent etc.). William and Mary was the ONLY school that asked for us to send back a copy of my parents tax form and to please have both parents sign the form. There has been other info that they needed and we have been communitcating with the financial aid officer. As I said, it could be conceived as "reading more into it", but surely this is not a bad sign and this late in the game, I doubt it's standard procedure...............in any case, I'll let you know......................................We're less than 2 weeks away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Cornell sent me an e-mail and wrote me 3 letters abot my noncustodial parent and then I got a likely letter shortly after so eh.
But maybe it was just a coincident, I dunno.</p>