<p>Every website says “all application materials should be postmarked by January 1st”. What does this mean? (I’ve never posted a letter in my life before). :|</p>
<p>Haha…
Well postmark date is the date when you POST YOUR LETTER. If the deadline is 1st January, and you send your documents on 31st of DEC it will be fine if it reaches even after 5th of Jan. Because it is marked as DEC 31st as your posting date. So you made the deadline.!</p>
<p>So it has to be postmarked before Jan 1st at my end? Are you sure, or does it mean that it has to be postmarked before Jan 1st at their end?</p>
<p>It has to be at our end</p>
<p>^So I can post happily even on Dec 31st? That’s a relief. Speed Post/Courier services have insane charges, and I have plenty of letters to send (ironically, they’re all fee waiver letters). :D</p>
<p>^why didnt you club all your material i’m sending all in one big envelope that will be sealed by my school and contain all the recos and sec school reports, transcripts and the fee waiver letters, it saves costs. Then i’ll mail another one which will have all the fin aid documents+the midyear report.
To be on the safe side though i’ll mail a few days before 31 like 27-28</p>
<p>what fin. aid documents?</p>
<p>And I mailed ALL my documents 2-3 weeks back … though I’ve still not submitted the the commonapp for those colleges :)</p>
<p>Lots of delays going on these days … so docs might take a bit longer time to reach them …</p>
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<p>My teachers have done everything online. Only a fee waiver letter now. </p>
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<p>Yes but it’s fine as long as I post before Jan 1st right?</p>
<p>absolutely fine if you postmark it b4 Jan 1.
In fact, many colleges say that they receive the maximum volume of applications (by mail) on Jan. 2-3</p>
<p>^already mailed your fin aid material? Great, the deadline for applying for fin aid is february 1, deadline for sending the supplementary material is march 1. I’ll mail it somewhere around the end of january</p>
<p>Arrey no. not the fin. aid material. I am talking abt the reccos, transcripts, school profile, any other relevant document …</p>
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What supplementary material ???</p>
<p>the income tax records, the bank statements, the salary slips of our parents etc.</p>
<p>I thought you need to submit this only if you get accepted …
Is it for all or only those asking for aid ?? …</p>
<p>only for those who apply for financial aid need to submit it to the college, they need to verify if you actually need aid.
After you get accepted, the visa officials ask for the source of payment of fees, there you have to show these to tell that you are capable of funding your education, the ones applying for aid have to show the fin aid award at that time.</p>
<p>n0mad, how will you send the fin aid application and Midyear report together? I mean * you * are supposed to send the fin aid form to the Finaid office and the MYR’s supposed to be sent by * your principal * to the admissions office, so you can’t send them both in the same envelope, can you?</p>
<p>You can … Just take a big envelope which should contain 2 envelopes:
env 1) your material (any relevant document)
env 2) a sealed enveloped containing any documents that ur schools needs to send</p>
<p>In fact, some univs recommend you to follow this method rather than sending them diff envelopes at diff times.</p>
<p>Yes true. But these are two different different departments we’re talking about.</p>
<p>Big deal. As long as it’s the same university :)</p>
<p>^ I specifically contacted a few universities regarding this… it seems that as long you have sent everything, it’s their duty to process…so no worries…</p>
<p>You guys asking for fee waivers? Damn, just remembered about fee waivers after I submitted my common app… Sheesh…the amount I must have run up… I’ll have to take up a job after school gets over, cant let my parents waste so much on me…:(</p>
<p>Another thing… a few documents of mine had got lost when I sent it by regular mail… Yeah, it still happens… So be careful, if possible do speed post, which is cheaper than courier and much, much better</p>
<p>Lol they do know that the school is not going to spend money couriering it and anyway because the envelope is sealed and stuff its okay because you can’t tamper with a sealed envelope</p>