After you have filed the Profile, you will receive instructions from the College Board on how to submit tax returns and some supplementary forms using the Institutional Documentation Service (IDOC).

The College Board will collect the returns and forms at no cost to students and their families and make the information available on a secure server to Haverford College or any other college which contracts for this service. The instructions from the College Board will provide a cover sheet for you to use to send your information to IDOC. If you need additional copies of the cover sheet, have questions about the IDOC service, or the processing status of your family's documents, please call IDOC at (305) 420-3688.

Send to the College Board's IDOC Service

1. A signed copy of all pages and schedules of your parents' and your 2015 U.S., Puerto Rico, or foreign tax return*
2. A signed copy of all pages and schedules of your (the applicant) 2015 U.S., Puerto Rico, or foreign tax return.
3. All parent and student W-2 forms for 2015.
4. If you will not file your own personal tax return for 2015, you must indicate that fact by completing a Non-Tax Filer Statement.
5. If you or your parents paid income tax to Puerto Rico or any other U.S. territory or paid a comparable tax to any foreign central government, these taxes should be treated as U.S. income taxes paid when filing the FAFSA. You or your parents should use the information on the tax return of the territory or foreign government as though a U.S. Federal tax return had been filed. This means that the box(es) on the FAFSA which would indicate that an IRS 1040 has been or will be filed should be checked.
6. Business/Farm Supplement, if appropriate
7. Non-Custodial Parent Profile and associated 2015 federal tax documents, if appropriate.

Notes:

• You do not need to send state returns.
• Do not send your tax returns to Haverford College.  All forms go to IDOC.
• Make sure the tax returns are complete (all pages, schedules and W-2’s), signed and dated.
• Always keep copies of important documents including tax returns.

For help from the College Board for the Profile Application email help@cssprofile.org or call (305) 829-9793 (Telephone Service for the Deaf 1-800-915-9990).

International students who must file the College Board's International Student Financial Aid Application may obtain a copy of this form at their school (or from the link on our International Applicants page).

Haverford applicants are expected to apply for any state grant assistance for which they may be eligible. In practice, we expect all residents of Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia to apply to their respective state grant programs. We will estimate such outside awards in most cases and will not replace the estimated award with College funds if the student fails to file an application with the appropriate agency by their required deadline.

Visit: www.finaid.org/otheraid/state.phtml for more information on state agencies.

All federal aid eligibility is determined by the student’s completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). There are occasions when the Federal Government may select a student’s file for a procedure called “Verification.” When this happens, the student’s family is required to submit certain documentation, usually through IRS-validated means, to prove the accuracy of the financial data reported on the FAFSA.

Students who are selected for verification will be notified by a message of the Student Aid Report (SAR) they receive from the Department of Education. In addition, Haverford College’s Financial Aid Office will also notify you that you are selected and what you must do to meet all verification requirements. Students are given 90 days to complete the verification process; after that, they may lose their eligibility for federal aid.

• You have the right to expect equitable treatment in the consideration of your aid application within the College's existing policies.
• You have the right to access financial aid policies.
• You have the right to know what aid is available, what the deadlines are, the costs, the criteria for selecting recipients, the breakdown of how we calculate how you will be able to meet the costs, and what the requirements are for keeping your aid.
• You must complete all forms correctly and by existing deadlines, read and understand all forms or statements you receive, accept responsibility for all agreements you sign, notify us in writing if any circumstances upon which your aid was based (including addresses) should change, and keep copies of all documents you submit or receive.

Lending Code of Conduct (pdf)