<p>nameofthegame - whenever you apply to anything else, like scholarships and FAFSA, those are the only pages you turn in. i really doubt all is needed. if you’ve e-mailed a FA, please post their reply up here.</p>
<p>Another question: For anyone applying to Vassar - a coversheet is required along with the transcript. However, my school does not do this. An official transcript is placed in a sealed envelope with the school sticker on the seal that says if opened, it’s no longer official. Anyone know what to do?</p>
<p>at my school, teacher’s rec are sent thru the guidance office and by signature, i mean the commonapp rec form’s teacher signature…maybe its a school thing.</p>
<p>Ok. So I’m pretty sure that all the colleges want are the first two pages of the tax forms; what the heck would they do with all 26 pages of the thing? The first two pages include all of the important information that could possibly be needed so why did someone say that we need to send in all 26 pages? That would be over 200 pieces of paper to send to 8 colleges!</p>
<p>hey all…this is the THIRD time I posted this question…but I think it just gets skipped over because of all the incoming posts. But I want to know if the October ACT scores (from the 24th) will be considered in the finalist round…anyone know?</p>
<p>plssss, let me know if you took the ACT in october/if you are sending the scores</p>
<p>^^I think we’re not answering because we don’t know? I know that the Oct. 10 SAT is definitely in…I probably doubt the 24th one because by the time scores come out, it’s way past Nov. 1…again, I could be wrong, definitely double check by emailing Questbridge/individual colleges.</p>
<p>What are you guys talking about? I thought you fax everything to colleges…?? Are you guys mailing or something?</p>
<p>To everyone who helped me with my lil panic attack over a mistake on my QB application earlier: everything turned out okay, I just have to send corrections to the colleges.</p>
<p>@spiritualwitch: I second that question! It doesn’t seem like adcoms would have time to go through all of that anyway. But does anyone know for sure?</p>
<p>@Julia Thanks! Hopefully my school has the same policy with the rec’s because I also realized another mistake that might occur. When I was applying for QB, I realized that they said they wanted recs to be from the core subjects as well. I e-mailed them to ask if it was ok for my teacher rec to be from an elective course because I thought that teacher had gotten to know me better than the others had. They said that was fine. However, many of the colleges I selected require that the recs be from teachers of the core subjects/academic discipline. </p>
<p>So hopefully, this third “floating” recommendation (without an common app/columbia teacher forms) makes up for it in some way. Hopefully tomorrow my appointment with my guidance counselor clearly all of this up because I’m going insane :S haha.</p>
<p>To All:</p>
<p>We should really sort out this two page vs. all 26 pages for the financial aid info. As I said above, I’m talking to my counselor tomorrow so I can come back and add some info if still needed.</p>
<p>Wait, where do you get a cover sheet for sending transcripts? Where does it say this? Where does it say that you have to put Questbridge on your transcript either? Please fill me in. Thanks!</p>
<p>@crystal: While some colleges would prefer fax, some also ask for things to be mailed. For example, at the site below, look at Amherst vs. University of Pennsylvania’s financial aid cover sheet. Amherst says “mail to” and UPenn says “mail or fax”. </p>
<p>It seems like you’ll save a lot more money with mail and at the same time you won’t have to worry about fax problems. My friend spent 30 some bucks just copying things and would’ve spent even more if she had faxed each page! Also, with mail you’ll know everything was sent and reached there in one clean packet.
A little more peace of mind :)</p>
<p>stevenboi & xctf - the “cover sheet” i’m referring to is for Vassar. The other colleges i ranked don’t require it. Vassar’s requirement for the transcript states:</p>
<p>Please attach cover sheet from high school official with name of student and identification as QuestBridge participant.</p>
<p>I don’t know what to do about this b/c my school places the transcript in an envelope, sealed with a sticker that says if broken, not official. So I don’t know what to do…</p>
<p>And for the 2 vs. 26 page thing, like I said before, FAFSA, scholarships, and my mom’s bookkeeper all say that only the 1st 2pgs of the 1040 are needed. If someone gets another response… please post. But spiritual witch made a smart point as well. Schools really don’t need all 26 pages</p>
<p>My mom filed a 1040 and there were only three or four pages, plus a few more for the EIC and such. How the heck did you people file? I guess we don’t have any assets, which helps.</p>
<p>Still waiting on my Yale ID… considering the due date is seven days away, you think they could get a move on. If it doesn’t come tomorrow, I’m sending my Stanford stuff anyway and then holding off on Yale for another day or two at most. Mailed my Stanford FA papers today. Just have transcripts to send and Yale FA documents to mail. Then it’s chillin’ 'til December 1st. I still have RD essays to write… and an entire RD process to contemplate. Ugh.</p>
<p>Mia 12
The cover page of the yale financial aid fax sheet clearly states to send a copy of your parents 2008 federal income tax returns with ALL schedules and attachments, etc. Everyone may have different looking tax documents, but mine is a 1040 with many additional pages of schedules and attachments after the first two pages. It includes a schedule EIC for earned income child credit and a schedule c and schedule ab. If your tax form is simpler it may not include any schedules or attachments and may just be two pages. Not trying to stress anyone out but it is pretty clear they want every part of your tax form. As for why, it is quite simply so they can verify the figures you input on the CSS profile. Hope that helps.</p>
…</p>