Mapping Your Future counseled more than one million students within the past four months, providing important advice on managing student loans and personal finance.
With the additional one million counseling sessions, now more than 12 million students have received loan counseling through Mapping Your Future.
A student from Dodge City Community College in Kansas completed the 12 millionth session.
"Through the counseling sessions, students receive important information about their financial aid, advice on borrowing conservatively, and tips on managing their personal finances," said Cathy Mueller, executive director for Mapping Your Future. "Online Student Loan Counseling serves as an important default prevention tool for students and schools."
Online Student Loan Counseling helps schools meet federal loan counseling requirements and student loan borrowers understand their rights and obligations. The interactive nature of Online Student Loan Counseling ensures students fully participate in learning about student loan management – making Online Student Loan Counseling an important default prevention tool. In addition to enabling schools and students to meet federal loan counseling requirements conveniently, Online Student Loan Counseling does not limit student choice of lenders and/or guarantors. Currently nearly 3,700 schools in the United States and around the world use Mapping Your Future's counseling services.
Mapping Your Future released Online Student Loan Counseling in 1997 and today offers 18 different counseling sessions:
- Stafford entrance counseling (English and Spanish)
- Stafford exit counseling (English and Spanish)
- Perkins entrance counseling
- Perkins exit counseling
- Stafford and Perkins combined entrance counseling
- Stafford and Perkins combined exit counseling
- Federal Nursing entrance counseling
- Federal Nursing exit counseling
- Health Professions Student Loan entrance counseling
- Health Professions Student Loan exit counseling
- Grad PLUS entrance counseling
- Grad PLUS exit counseling
- Stafford and Grad PLUS entrance counseling
- Stafford and Grad PLUS exit counseling
- TEACH Grant exit counseling
- Financial literacy counseling
Online Student Loan Counseling is a free service for schools and borrowers, thanks to the support of Mapping Your Future's Sponsors and Friends. Visit the financial aid professional's page at http://mappingyourfuture.org/FAP/ for more information or to sign up to participate.
Based in Round Rock, Texas, Mapping Your Future is a neutral, non-proprietary, and non-commercial national collaborative, public-service organization of the financial aid industry--bringing together the expertise of the industry to provide services online. Since 1996, Mapping Your Future has received a number of awards, including recognition for its excellence in content and innovation in technology services.
Mapping Your Future provides step-by-step instructions on career, college planning, and financial aid. In addition, the site offers Online Student Loan Counseling, financial literacy information and tools, and online customer service for schools and their students.
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