My D received this E-mail when she asked about her FAFSA not showing up in MyAppVu back in mid January (she filed it very early). The response include the below:
Instructions for Submitting Documents to IDOC: If you are accepted for admission, you will receive a separate email from the IDOC Service, providing instructions on how to submit 2015 federal tax forms b** . Upload or mail your tax return packet directly to IDOC. If multiple schools to which you are applying participate in IDOC, you only need to submit the information to IDOC once. This information will be sent to all participating schools.
I think there are two key things here 1) ED-I and ED-II receive requests for IDOC early, RD might receive IDOC requests as late as April 1 and 2) if you do IDOC for another school “you only need to submit the information to IDOC once. This information will be sent to all participating schools” - once can only guess if they send a request for documents that they already received from another schools request - I would imagine not.
In addition I just found this at http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/vanderbilt-university/1851601-official-rd-2020-thread-p37.html
The absence of an IDOC email means nothing, if you (or your parents) already uploaded the information for other schools that use the service such as Notre Dame, Duke or Stanford. I spoke directly to IDOC and they told me that schools like Vanderbilt will access what is already in there, after an applicant is accepted.