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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.ocap.org/News/Images/Mastheads/OCAP_masthead.jpg" alt="OCAP - Oklahoma College Assistance Program, Formerly known as the Oklahoma Guaranteed Student Loan Program"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">3/13/13</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 style="margin:6.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#4F3E3F">OCAP Releases New Student Loan Management Brochure<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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Ready Set Repay and Oklahoma Money Matters initiatives have joined forces to create a new publication for student loan borrowers.
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Borrow Smart from the Start</span></em> is a step-by-step guide through the student loan process that emphasizes the importance of completing the FAFSA, making smart borrowing choices, monitoring debt load,
keeping track of student loans through the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS), considering various repayment options and more!
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We’re offering
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Borrow Smart from the Start</span></em> in both electronic and print versions, so it’s easy for you to distribute to the students and families you serve.
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Financial aid directors, we hope you’ll consider sharing the brochure in financial aid award packaging.
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">High school counselors, we hope you’ll make the brochure available to your juniors and seniors, as well as their parents.
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Campus and community partners, we hope you’ll share the brochure as a component of your college planning and financial education programs and services.
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here's what some of your colleagues had to say when asked about their plans for our new publication:
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<em><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“We would like to incorporate these brochures with our current default prevention efforts. We feel that the more information we can give students, the better decisions they can make
when borrowing money.” </span></em><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">—Jaclyn Riley, Carl Albert State College
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<em><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“We are placing a link to this brochure on our website under loan information and plan to include it in an orientation video we are working on that will be posted to our website. We
are also going to give the brochure out to all students requesting loans. There's great information in the brochure that includes the full gamut of student borrowing.”
</span></em><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">—Myrna Cross, Western Oklahoma State College
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Download a
<a href="http://www.readysetrepay.org/publications/publications/SmartBorrowingBrochure.pdf" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#003399">PDF version</span></a> of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Borrow Smart from the Start</span></em> to share with students and parents electronically or contact Kerry Mucker at
<a href="mailto:kmucker@ocap.org"><span style="color:#003399">kmucker@ocap.org</span></a> for printed copies (quantities limited).
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Angela Caddell<br>
Director for Communications, Financial Education & Outreach Services<br>
Oklahoma College Assistance Program (OCAP)<br>
P.O. Box 3000 | Oklahoma City, OK 73101-3000<br>
<a href="mailto:acaddell@ocap.org"><span style="color:#003399">acaddell@ocap.org</span></a> |
<a href="http://www.ocap.org"><span style="color:#003399">www.OCAP.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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