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Hi and welcome to your WOU financial aid presentation for TSOAR.

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We're glad that you're here and we're happy to be here.

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My name is Anel Venegas Trujillo

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and I'm a bilingual financial aid/scholarship counselor here at Western.

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So let's get started.

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First we're going to go through our agenda.

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I've been awarded aid...now what?

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I don't have an aid package yet...why could that be?

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And what are some actions that I could do between

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now and when school starts?

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What other information you could need.

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So what else do I need to know?

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And hopefully til the end the contact page

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for you to contact us if you have any questions.

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So I've been awarded aid, not what/

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The next step would be to accept you aid.

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Your going to want to log into your portal at wou.edu/portal.

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This will take you to the WOU student portal.

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You want to click the green financial aid icon

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and that will take you to your My FinAid

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which is your financial aid portal for Western. 

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So once you go into your MyFinAid

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you're going to want to read the terms and conditions about the rights

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and responsibilities of accepting financial aid

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as a federal financial aid receipient.

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And that will be on the accept awards tab.

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Once you're accepting that portion 

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you're going to want to accept or decline your desired aid 

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on the award letter that we packaged you with.

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If you want to reduce the amount of loans that you'll be receiving

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you can do so by contacting our office

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and we can make those changes for you.

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So let's go over the types of aid that you may see on your award letter.

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Grants - so that is free money that is given to you

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based on your financial aid need which is the figures 

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that we get through your FAFSA once it's submitted.

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The scholarships is also something that you might see

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on there which is also free money based on a couple of factors

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some of those being merit, accomplishments and community involvement.

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So these are usually competitive, may require an application 

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or be soley based on your merit.

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The next type of aid that we have is work study.

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These are wages that you earn that are funded in part by the 

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federal government. So you going to want to contact the 

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Service Learning and Career Development Office to see and

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available opportunities in terms of federal work study approved jobs 

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near campus or on campus.

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Next we'll see loans. So this is money 

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that is not free but this is money that you can borrow

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and then are expected to repay back once you're out of school.

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So to go a little more in-depth about what that means for loans. 

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Loans are a reality for a lot of our students attending our school.

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So your eligibility for annual 

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limits for loans is depicted in this chart here.

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As you can see your amount of loans that you can receive

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changes based on the year and school that you're in.

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So a freshman who is a dependent student is able to receive

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And then after that 3rd, 4th and 5th years 

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are able to receive $7,500 as a dependent student. 

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These figures do increase if you're an independent student.

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If that is the case or you're unsure what your dependency status is

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you can contact your office and we can let you know.

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There is an option for a Parent PLUS loan so parents are

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able to apply for a federal loan.

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Keep in mind that this loan would be under

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the parent's name and not the students

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but it'll allow the student to have that additional federal

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loan opportunity to cover the remaining gap, if any,

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for any kind of expenses or cost that comes from attending Western.

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If a parent is denied for whatever reason

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for the Parent PLUS loan,

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the student does become eligible to receive additional unsubsidized loan.

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And this would be only per request of the student.

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You would have to request it only after you've shown that 

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a Parent PLUS load has been denied for the parent.

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Again, the Parent PLUS loan is a credit-based application

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so the parent will know right then and there if they were 

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declined or approved for the loan.

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It is super important that you spend time on figuring

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out what your expenses or costs will be for school.

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The financial aid cost of attendance is an estimate only and your cost

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will vary based on your particular situation

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because it'll change base on your enrollment level

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and it's change based on your housing option.

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Only borrow as much loan money as you need.

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You may not need the maximum amount that we've offered you

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because we always package you with the maximum amount of federal loans.

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But keep in mind that you don't want to borrow more than you need.

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And if you have any questions on that you can contact 

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the financial aid office if you've accepted

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more loans or money than you actually needed.

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As said, we can always reduce that figure for you.

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Now let's go over your financial aid award letter.

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This is what you would've received via mail. 

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It'll be broken down by type of financial aid that you will be receiving.

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It'll be broken up into the three terms. 

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You'll see the total at the bottom but you'll also see the total  

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of the award for the year on the right hand side.

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Totaling to the corner piece, in this case it is $23,345.

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Now if we scroll down to the bottom of under cost attendance

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you'll see the figure that's been boxed at $24,636.

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This is your cost of attendance.  

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This is the figure that you want to compare that $23,000 with

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because that gap is what you might not neccessarily

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be covered in your estimated costs.

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Again they're estimated

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So the difference there will be located towards the bottom.

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You see that $1291 figure boxed at the bottom.

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That is what you could get an additional load amount.

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It does not mean federal loan. What it means and refers to

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is a private student loan that you may be eligible to get

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if you were to apply and be accepted for a private student loan.

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The next number that I want to point out is the total resources figure

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that in this case it is $0. 

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That is where you'll see your expected family contribution.

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so that is what mainly drives how much financial aid you can

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receive when it's need based. And this is where you'll be able to see 

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that figure that came straight from your FAFSA or sum.

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The MyFinAid portal this is what it look like

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once you click on the green money sign. 

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You'll want to make sure that the current award year says 20-21.

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At this point it says 19-20 and just to familiarize yourself

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with the terms an information that's located on here.

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But your main button will be the menu on the top left corner.

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Once you've clicked that you'll see two options

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that will be most important at this point in time which will be

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accept you award and then documents and messages.

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In your accept your awards, that's where you'll be able to accept your awards.

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In documents and messages is where we'll be able to list what we need

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in addition, in order to move forward with financial aid.

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So accept your awards page, this is what will first pop on

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and it will be your rights and responsibilities, make sure to read the fine print. 

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And once you have as a federal aid recipient you're required to accept

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the terms and conditions if you wish to accept federal aid.

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So you're going to want to click on the I agree to these terms and conditions

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 the box at the bottom and then hit submit.

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The next page would be the documents and messages page

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that I was mentioning before. 

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Here you'll see things listed that we'll need in order

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to move forward with your financial aid.

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If the title of the document is highlighted that will route you to either the

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website where we need you to complete the task 

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or it'll open up the PDF file that we need you to 

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fill out, sign and return to our office. 

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If you need information about what those documents mean

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or why we need those simply click on the click to view messages

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and that will let you know why we are required 

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to receive that information from you.

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If you miss it on your award letter or you want a most updated

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amount that you can receive in a private student loan

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or apply for a private student loan

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you can also find that on here at the bottom where I have circled there

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the amount that you would've found in your award letter indicating

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how much your eligible to apply for a private loan if that's something  

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that you're looking towards receiving as a resource.

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Now I would like to go over some paperwork that you'll need to be    

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completed in order for us to move forward with your loans

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after you've accepted the amounts that you wish for the year.

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The first would be to go to studentloans.gov.

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You could also get there by clicking on the link from your MyFinAid portal

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for the students. For the parent you'll be receiving an email 

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letting you know where to go in order to get that done.

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But both of these should be located at studentloans.gov 

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which would route you to student aid.gov.

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The first for the parent and the student would be the

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Master Promissory Note. This is a 5-minute contract that you get to read.

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It basically states that you are the borrower and that the loan will be 

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in your name and that it's your responsibility to pay it back,

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as well as, details about the loan. 

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The next thing that you'll want to complete would be 

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the Loan Entrance Counseling for students.

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This is basically a tutorial or

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a session that the government has put up for you so that you

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understand what loan is and how it works over time. 

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It'll ask you to put in your actual figures but

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if you're not sure at the time because you're not sure how much

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you want to accept for the year, 

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because all they want you to do

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is be able to go through tutorial session so you understand how the loan works  

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and how it will grow over time.

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For parents, you'll want to also go in and apply there

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for the Parent PLUS Loan if that's something you wish to do.

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This application is credit-based so you'll know right then and there 

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if you are accepted or declined. 

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In order to look for a job, so this is important for students to know.

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You want to start looking around early Septement.

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You're going to want to be looking at things for work study.

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So if you want to find a job that's federal work study approved

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you might want to talk to us and then

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we can route you to the correct department. 

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Work study and non-work study students can obtain jobs on campus 

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Not all campus jobs are federal work study approved.

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But there are positions for all students whethere

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your federal work study approved or not. 

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The department that you'd want to visit would be Service Learning & Career Development

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or you can follow their WolfLink website

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which is also found on your WOU student portal.

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So if you haven't received your financial aid package,

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there's a couple of things that could be holding up

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you getting your award letter. The first would be have you

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completed your FAFSA in the last 6 weeks?

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It takes about six weeks for us to process a FAFSA application. 

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We see it 3 days after it's been submitted 

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but after that it goes through a couple of processes

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for us to actually be able to work with the FAFSA application

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and be able to award you your eligible financial aid.

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It could possibly also be that you were selected for verification.

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If that's the case we're going to need additional documentation in order for

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forward to complete your verification process in order to know what 

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your expected family contribution will for sure be after verification

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and be able to award you with your eligible financial aid.

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It also could be that your FAFSA has some mis-matched information

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or mis-information that we need to fix

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or correct on our end. 

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If that's the case it should be noted on your FAFSA

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that your FAFSA has been rejected or there's additional information

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on your documents and messages within your MyFinAid Portal. 

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So that being said, again a reminder to always check your documents 

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and messages tab in you MyFinAid Portal

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because that's where we're going to put all those documents or information  

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that we need in order to move forward with you award letter.

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So what actions do you need to do as a

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the student between now and the start of fall term? 

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So you're going to want to follow your financial aid checklist.

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This will give you step-by-step of what you need to do

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in order to get your financial aid ready to go.

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If you're confused at all on that checklist, 

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feel free to contact our office and we'll be more than ready to help you out.

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You're going to want to complete your Loan Entrance Counseling

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If you have borrowed loans before at your previous school

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this might already be completed but you'll know for sure if you go into

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your documents and messages. If nothing is listed there,

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feel free to give us a call and we can give you an update status to see

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if both of those tasks have been completed

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in order to make sure that your loans are ready to go for this school year.

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Parents can apply for the Parent PLUS Loan 

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between now and the start of the school year.

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And again they're going to want to do that at student aid.gov.

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And at this point in time you can also take the opportunity to find a job

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if finding a job is necessary for you 

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to be able to make those out-of-pocket payments

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if financial aid isn't able to cover all your costs while you're here.

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So what else do you need to know while you're here?

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So there's release of confidential information.

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We are unable to release any information to any person

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whether that is a parent or a third party or a spouse.

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In order for us to be able to release that information we're going

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to need permission from you the student. 

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And you do so by turning in a release of confidentiality information form.

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You can find this form on your WOU student home portal page

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if you scroll down to the bottom of that home page

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you'll find the financial aid forms.

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And under 20-21 school year, you're going to find a 

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release of confidentiality information form. 

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There you'll be able to complete it. 

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So please keep in mind this form is only 

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being able to be completed by the student.

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The parent cannot fill it out or send it in for the student.

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It has to come from the student themself so that we make sure and

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understand that is something that the student is requesting.

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You can turn this form in by printing it out

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and sending it in to our financial aid email address.

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You can also upload it to our supplemental document upload option

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that you'll also find under that same list for financial aid forms. 

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This is a new feature so we're excited to put it up as an option for students. 

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That way they don't have to email it in and they can just submit it by

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uploading the file to our webpage.

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If for whatever reason you still have questions because I know

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we've been giving you a lot of information or

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have special unique circumstances that you'd like to speak with us about

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you can always book an appointment.

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At this time we are only doing phone and video appointments

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So if you want to log into the WCS icon in your WOU Portal

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you'll be able to set-up an appointment with us by clicking on that icon

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and selecting Get Advising.  At that point, you'll be able to choose

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between the academic advisors or financial aid

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So you're going to want to select financial aid.

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And it will give you available times or our available times for you to 

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select what works best for you.

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Other things to consider are your enrollment levels.

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That will directly impact how much financial aid you'll be receiveing 

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per terms because it will change your cost of attendance budget for the term.

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So someone who is full-time will be a little

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different than someone who is half-time

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because they're not taking the same number of credits.

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Therefore, their charges will be different because their

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taking less credits or more credits.

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Another thing to keep in mind is satisfactory academic progress.

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So we're going to want to make sure that your

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WOU GPA stays at a 2.0 or greater.

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We're going to want to make sure that you stay at a 66.66% 

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pace rate, meaning your passing grade.

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So how many of the classes that you've taken

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have you actually earned a grade for.

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The other is that you maintain below 220 credits at this point. 

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One thing to keep in mind is your satisfactory academic progress.

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Standard will not be checked until the end of the school year.

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So if you find yourself below 2.0 for example between fall term

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and winter term that won't be evaluated until end of spring term.

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Another thing to keep in mind is to check you WOU email throughout the year.

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That is where our main communication happens.

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So we will be reaching out to you there

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in order for us to receive information that we're requesting you.

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So as long as you keep checking that WOU email 

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and submitting all the information that we need any point in time

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in the school year your financial aid should disperse on time.

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Unless, for whatever reason, there are things holding up your aid

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in which case if you don't find an email feel free to 

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call us and we can let you know what's going on.

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And like I mentioned before follow you financial aid checklist.

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That will give you a lot of information of what to do 

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next between now and then as well.

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So last words from financial aid would be the release of confidentiality

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information form that you can submit 

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for other people to have access to your financial aid.

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You're going to want to review your financial aid checklist and 

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glossary of terms to let us know if you have any more questions

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in regards to your awards letter. 

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You can make an appointment with us via phone or video as an option

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and you do this by logging into the WCS icon  

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for us to make that appointment. 

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And most importantly, enjoy the moment. 

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Coming to WOU s a big step and we're glad 

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that you're here and we're excited to work with you.

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And because this is a virtual

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I wanted to show you what our building looks like 

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when we are on campus you'll be able to find us.

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We are located in the administration building on the third floor. 

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So this is what the picture looks like of the front of our building

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So we hope to see you're smiling faces there.

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at whatever point and time if you have any questions regarding

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financial aid. We're always here to help.

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So if you any follow-up questions this is my contact information

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feel free to reach out. We're always here to help.  Go Wolves! 

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