DCLPublicationDate: 8/1/95 DCLID: SPEC-95-2 AwardYear: Summary: Describes a mailing list change to the Application Ordering System (AOS) for 1996-97 FAFSAs and Student Guides. August 1995 SPEC-95-2 Summary: Describes a mailing list change to the Application Ordering System (AOS) for 1996-97 FAFSAs and Student Guides. Dear Colleague: This letter will describe a change to our Application Ordering System for the 1996-97 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and Student Guides. This change will significantly improve our ability to respond to questions about your order and will allow us to better monitor the distribution of materials. In recent years, we have seen a substantial increase in the quantities of materials ordered. Part of this increase appears to result from multiple and often duplicative orders from multiple different addresses within the same institution. This, in turn is caused by the address list we have been using to distribute order forms for FAFSAs and Guides: it is the address list we use to distribute Dear Colleague letters and Federal Registers and it does often contain multiple addresses for a single school. These addresses have all been added over time at the request of various individuals within a school who want to be sure they receive their own copy of those items. To correct this problem, this year we will use a different mailing list to distribute order sheets for FAFSAs and Guides. We will use the list maintained by our central application processing system. These addresses are also published and distributed each year as the Title IV School Code List. Your school will receive the 1996-97 AOS order sheet within the next few weeks at the address given in the School Code List. Please use the order sheet to coordinate your schoolÂ’s order for FAFSAs and Student Guides. We will continue to use our general mailing list to distribute Dear Colleague letters, publications, and Federal Registers. Thank you for your cooperation in coordinating the distribution of student aid materials to your students. Future letters to your school will explain other changes that we are making to the AOS, including a special toll-free number that will make it easier for you to check on the status of your order. In the meantime, if you have questions about 1995-96 FAFSA or Student Guide orders, please call our Federal Student Aid Information Center at 1-800-4 FED AID. Sincerely, William J. Ryan Acting Director, Training and Program Information Division Student Financial Assistance Programs |