Your Source for Entrance and Exit Counseling Materials
Anne Doyle
HESC has expanded its library of publications to include entrance and exit counseling tools.
These materials will help you deliver important information to your students while ensuring your compliance with federal regulations and helping your school keep default rates low.
Included in the array of new materials are informative entrance and exit counseling brochures, an envelope where students can store their loan records and correspondence, a borrower information update/signature form, and a letter template you can customize and send to your students should you need to mail exit counseling materials.
Entrance Counseling
Entrance Counseling materials provided by HESC include:
- The Student Guide to Smart Borrowing and Your Financial Future brochure helps students entering college get the right information to make the best decisions on borrowing money to pay for their education. The brochure includes tips and advice on understanding credit, 10 questions to ask before borrowing, avoiding identity theft, and steps for financial success.
- Managing Your Student Loan Debt brochure offers help with budgeting, including loan payment and savings charts, and important contacts if making student loan payments becomes difficult.
- Financial Aid Folder provides students with a place to keep all materials related to their student loans. It includes a student loan information sheet to help students log important information pertaining to their education loans.
- FFEL Loan Borrower Information triplicate form which students complete and sign to fulfill entrance counseling requirements.
Exit Counseling
The HESC-sponsored Mapping Your Future (www.mapping-your-future.org) Web site provides an online counseling option for FFEL and Perkins borrowers. If you don’t use online counseling or need to fill the gap with students who don’t attend exit interviews, HESC offers all the materials you need to send the student and meet your requirements.HESC exit counseling materials include:
- What They Should Know Before They Go booklet for administrators provides a step-by-step guide for conducting the exit interview.
- Paying Your Student Loans is Serious Business brochure includes a sample loan repayment schedule, stories illustrating the profound consequences of default, plus all the steps and strategies students need to stay on track repaying their loans. This helpful brochure for students can be used in one-on-one sessions or mailed to accomplish the same goals as an in-person counseling session.
- FFEL Loan Borrower Information triplicate form which students complete with their contact information to comply, keeping one copy for themselves and returning the remaining two to the school which passes one on to HESC.
- A template for a personalized exit counseling letter from your school in which you can include your mandatory average indebtedness information.
To order these materials, visit the literature ordering center on HESC.org.