From cbrown at osrhe.edu Thu Feb 23 12:46:08 2006 From: cbrown at osrhe.edu (Brown, Cynthia) Date: Thu Feb 23 12:43:22 2006 Subject: [Okepas] FAFSA reminder Message-ID: FYI - Cindy Greetings How many of your students/children/friends don't know that the official FAFSA URL is www.fafsa.ed.gov? Ask them - you might be surprised. Last year, the number of students who complained to the Federal Student Aid Information Center that they had been charged to complete the FAFSA rose noticeably. Most complainants stated that when they filled out the FAFSA online, they thought they were at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) web site. Later they learned that the FAFSA is provided for free by ED at our site. If you would like to remind students of the FAFSA application site's URL, you might try some of the following methods: * posters * flyers * e-mails to students and parents * articles in school/local newspaper * announcements at parent nights * information on your web site (and a link to the official FAFSA site) Tell your students: "The first F in 'FAFSA' stands for 'free.' If a web site asks for your credit card information, you're not at the official FAFSA site." Cindy Forbes Cameron Awareness & Outreach Federal Student Aid U.S. Dept of Education for counselors and mentors: www.fsa4schools.ed.gov/counselors for students: www.studentaid.ed.gov 1-800-4-FED-AID -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okepas/attachments/20060223/9db6230b/attachment.html