Patent ID: 7398235

Claim:
A system for administering an on-line financial-aid service for a plurality of post-highschool education facilities, comprising: a centralized computer server operatively coupled to a computer network; a plurality of school computer servers for a plurality of post-highschool education facilities operatively coupled to the computer network; and at least one user computer operatively coupled to the computer network, the user computer being a computer of a borrower taken from a group consisting of a prospective student, an existing student, a parent of a prospective student and a parent of an existing student; each school computer server including a Web-site software program providing a graphical user interface representing a Web-site for the respective post-highschool education facility on the computer network, the Web-site graphical user interface including an address link for connecting the user computer to the centralized computer server; the centralized computer server including a financial-aid-service software program providing a school-access graphical user interface accessible by each of the post-highschool education facilities and a student-access customizable graphical user interface for each of the post-highschool education facilities, accessible by the borrower; the school-access graphical user interface enabling a given post-highschool education facility to establish an account that causes the financial-aid-service software program to enable customization of the corresponding student-access graphical user interface for the given post-highschool education facility by providing at least one computer-based form including entry and/or selection fields for enabling a representative of the given post-highschool education facility to customize the content and operation of the corresponding student-access graphical user interface for the given post-highschool education facility; and each student-access graphical user interface providing at least financial-aid information to the borrower.