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***Mapping Your Future***

## What is Mapping Your Future?

- 	Mapping Your Future is a national collaborative financial aid industry project sponsored by guaranty agencies and supported by Friends, which include lenders and servicers.

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## Mapping Your Future mission

- 	Mapping Your Future’s mission is to counsel students and families about college, career, and financial aid choices through a state-of-the-art public service web site.

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## Mapping Your Future Objectives

- Provide accurate and up-to-date information about student aid.
- Develop innovative student aid services to assist students and families.
- Promote technological innovation by sharing information with other participants about		technologies and industry trends.
- Establish a national reputation of reliable information and quality service for the web site	and for sponsoring agencies.

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## Mapping Your Future Features and Services

- Default Prevention
- Early Awareness
- Customer Service
- Chat Events
- Loan Counseling
- FAO Access
- ExitExpress

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## Mapping Your FutureSchool Benefits

- May be used by any school as a free public service
- Enables students to complete counseling anytime, anywhere, i.e. prior to coming to campus, students studying abroad
- Provides accurate, up-to-date counseling and default prevention information
- Provides customized school-specific information, as well as electronic confirmation files
- Maintains a high level of privacy and security for both students and financial aid professionals

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## Steps for the Student

- 1. Student receives instructions from the school's Financial Aid Office to complete counseling requirement by visiting Mapping Your Future and going through the Online Student Loan Counseling session.
- 2. Student visits Mapping Your Future and clicks on Online Student Loan Counseling. The student can go through this session anytime, anywhere - from home, from a computer lab...even in another country.
- 3. Student reads and follows the five-step instructions, reading the information and answering the questions correctly on the test.

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## Steps for the Student

- 4. Once the student has completed all the questions correctly, he/she completes an online form to provide information to the school that he/she has completed the session. The student reviews the information submitted on the form, confirms that all is correct and clicks on the submit button.
- 5. The student then receives a confirmation number and a page with all the information submitted. The student can print that page or make a note of the confirmation number.
- 6. The school financial aid office receives an e-mail message, notifying them to retrieve the student's confirmation report from the Financial Aid Office Access area of Mapping Your Future.

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## Steps for the Financial Aid Office

**1. Financial Aid Office reviews Online Student Loan Counseling, decides the service will meet their needs, and completes online form to participate in Online Student Loan Counseling.  (Please note that a school must register separately to participate in Perkins and Stafford Counseling. ) **
**2. The office receives an e-mail message from Mapping Your Future, requesting that they review their submission before it is processed.**
**3. Once the submission is approved, the school is added as a participant of Mapping Your Future's Online Student Loan Counseling. The school will receive a user name and password via email. If a school is registered for both Stafford and Perkins, the school with have a user name and password for each type of counseling.**

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## Steps for the Financial Aid Office

- 4. Financial Aid Office instructs students to visit Mapping Your Future <http://mapping-your-future.org>  and go through the Online Student Loan Counseling session to meet federal loan counseling requirements.
- 5. Financial Aid Office receives e-mail notice when student(s) complete the Online Student Loan Counseling session. The notice includes a link to a password-protected secure Financial Aid Office Access area on the Mapping Your Future web site.
- 6. The financial aid office retrieves confirmations of all the students who have completed their counseling through Online Student Loan Counseling.

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## Online Student Loan Counseling 2.6

- The latest version of Mapping Your Future’s Online Student Loan Counseling was released in July. Some of the enhancements include:
- Double-entry SSN validation
- Enhanced-capabilities of locating guarantors (enhancing ExitExpress on Stafford Exit Counseling).
- Streamlined-student information form with required field indicators,
- Improved-form validation to make sure data is properly formatted and students don't repeat data, and
- Updated questions and enhanced content

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## Financial Aid Office Access

- Through Mapping Your Future's Financial Aid Office Access Area, financial aid counselors retrieve counseling records and reports at anytime, read past issues of the Online Student Loan Counseling newsletter, update school and/or contact information and begin customizing school-specific counseling pages.

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## Mapping Your Future Secure FAO Access

- FAO Access customized to each school
- Ability to view reports in a variety of formats
- Ability to download files in various file formats for uploading to school system
- Ability to retrieve individual confirmation searching by name, SSN, or confirmation number

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## Enhanced FAO Access

- A new appearance to the FAO Access Area.
- New options for sorting downloaded text files.
- New area for exporting data.
- A new customer service form for schools to immediately contact Mapping Your Future.

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## Reports in a Variety of Formats

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## ExitExpress

- ExitExpress enables guaranty agencies to receive appropriate student exit counseling data for the Federal Stafford loans they've guaranteed from the Mapping Your Future Exit Counseling database.

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## ExitExpress Benefits

- Eliminates the need for the school to forward exit reports.
- Saves staff time and other resources in the financial aid office.
- Increases the security of exit counseling data.
- Enhances the exit data process by making it more efficient for all parties involved.
- Aids in default prevention efforts through more accurate and up-to-date information.
- Establishes a basis for future data transfer.

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## NSC Collaboration

- Mapping Your Future's Online Counseling now provides those students completing exit counseling with the name of their guarantor or guarantors, enhancing default prevention and improving data exchange within the industry.

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## Exit Confirmation in FAO Access

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## Mapping Your Future Data Export

- Mapping Your Future offers schools the opportunity to download data files for uploading into their software or mainframe systems.

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## Downloaded File

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## Data Formats

- Delimited Classic. This is the format from the previous version of the student information forms.  Please note that it has limited fields that may not match the new data layout.
- Delimited New. The columns are separated by any character(s). This format contains all fields of data collected on the student forms.
- XML
- WDDX

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## Mapping Your Future Customization

- Schools using Mapping Your Future's Online Student Loan Counseling have the option of adding their own customized page of information for students to view when beginning their online counseling.

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## Mapping Your Future Customization

- This customization option allows a higher quality of service by providing important school-specific information to students. Schools can remind students of important dates, disbursement procedures, refund policies, and enhance their own default prevention efforts through another communication channel with students

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## Customer Service

- For schools – Administrative and technical support from Mapping Your Future staff. Schools can also send messages to feedback@mapping-your-future.org or oslc@mapping-your-future.org.
- For Students – 24 x7 customer service support. Students are given options of real‐time chat, Internet talk (voice over IP), or email, and their questions will be automatically directed to the appropriate person for a response.

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## OSLC 3.0

- Response to customer needs.
- Continued emphasis on cost and time savings.
- Increased customization options.
- Enhanced technology.
- Flexible architecture.
- New data exchange options.

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## Future Data Exchange

- Data Exchange Team formed.
- Compliance with industry standards.
- Automated exchange option available to schools.

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## Questions

- We appreciate your feedback and comments.  We can be reached:
- Mapping Your Future
- www.mapping-your-future.org
- Adele Marsh
- 		Phone:  (717) 720-2711
- 		Email:   amarsh@aessuccess.org

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