<p>You cannot scan and send documents to the admissions office at Harvard. They simply won’t open any attachments. I am sure sending mail from abroad to the U.S costs money, but you really have to figure it out. The best you can do is call up the office and ask them if you send them by fax, although fax may be just as expensive as mail, since its international (for you at least). Another more complicated alternative is to fill out the forms electronically. You will need a PDF file editor for this. You then send the completed forms by internet fax: [Free</a> Fax • Free Internet Faxing](<a href=“http://faxzero.com%5DFree”>http://faxzero.com). It costs about $2 per fax and up to 15 pages per fax. I don’t really use this service but it is very reliable. Filling forms electronically though can be hard because you need a full version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Obviously you need to get a legal copy which is very expensive. You might want to ready everything on paper, then when you are ready to send, download a trial version of the software and use it to fill out the forms electronically. Once they are ready (make sure you attach the essays to their respective forms), you save the completed forms as PDF files and send them via internet fax [FaxZero]. The Common app will be about 10 pages once you add the essay the short answer and factor in the additional information. The supplement is about 5-7 pages. Since there is a 15 page limit for the charged internet fax service, you need to send each form individually. </p>
<p>I don’t know about income tax/tax returns because we don’t have them in our country, and I am sure protocol is different from one country to another. As for the income statement, an official letter signed by your parents’ employer(s) is enough. You can also send bank statements to verify income. Regarding the income tax/tax returns, you need to check this with whatever authority that handles it. Typically, if there is any statement that your parents receive indicating the income tax/tax return, just send it to the office. As long as you are not lying, the office will help you verify the information. At any rate, your financial aid, like you offer of admission, is not final. The Financial Aid office may not be very strict about verification at the beginning to speed-up opertations and tell you what your financial aid will be like, but during about May you will receive an e-mail telling you if any further information is required.</p>
<p>I don’t really know much about Harvard since I have yet to go there, and I have never visited the university. About my study plans though, I am considering a joint-concentration in Physics and Philosophy.</p>