<p>Should I mail or fax them? Do I need a cover sheet? For Columbia University if that helps. Thanks!</p>
<p>You need to look at each school’s financial aid website and see what they require. Some schools use the Idoc program - where you mail your tax returns to this service and then they scan them and make them available to each college that you have applied to that uses this service. Other colleges want you to mail tax returns to them directly. Some colleges have their own cover sheet or additional form that goes with the mailed tax return. Do the research - go to Columbia’s website - look up financial aid - see if they require FAFSA or CSS Profile or both and how they want the tax returns sent.</p>