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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">April 25, 2013</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#C36800">Now Available: Federal Direct Loan Counseling Toolkit!<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As you know, entrance and exit counseling are often your school's first and last opportunity to collect and share important information about federal student loans and repayment with student loan
borrowers. For the most effective impact on your borrowers, we recommend in-person counseling. Whether counseling is one-on-one or in a group setting, in-person counseling gives borrowers the opportunity to ask specific questions and you the opportunity to
collect current demographic information — all of which can reduce both your borrowers' chances for default and your school's cohort rates. If your school is interested in conducting in-person entrance and exit counseling, OCAP can help! Our
<a href="http://www.readysetrepay.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#18769F">Ready Set Repay</span></a> team has developed a
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Federal Direct Loan Counseling Toolkit</span></em> to help Oklahoma's financial aid administrators meet regulatory requirements for entrance and exit counseling.
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Entrance and Exit Counseling Rights and Responsibilities checklists
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An electronic version of the
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Borrow Smart from the Start</span></em> brochure (which can also be included in electronic award letters)
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To further assist you with entrance and exit counseling, an OCAP Training Specialist may be able to deliver your counseling presentations. To order your copy of the
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Federal Direct Loan Counseling Toolkit</span></em> or to discuss the possibility of scheduling a counseling presenter, contact Scott DeBoard, OCAP Training Specialist, at
<a href="mailto:sdeboard@ocap.org"><span style="color:#18769F">sdeboard@ocap.org</span></a>. For more products and services to support your default prevention efforts, visit
<a href="http://www.readysetrepay.org/Partners/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#18769F">ReadySetRepay.org</span></a>.
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<b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Mary Heid<br>
Director for Default Prevention, Compliance & Training Services<br>
Oklahoma College Assistance Program (OCAP)<br>
P.O. Box 3000 | Oklahoma City, OK 73101-3000<br>
<a href="mailto:mheid@ocap.org"><span style="color:#18769F">mheid@ocap.org</span></a> |
<a href="http://www.ReadySetRepay.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#18769F">www.ReadySetRepay.org
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