Publication Date: June 2003
Bulletin ID: DLB-03-19
Summary: Direct Loan Entrance Counseling Materials
Posted on 06-10-2003
June 2003
DLB-03-19
Subject: Direct Loan Entrance Counseling Materials
Dear Partner:
As you approach another school year, we want to remind you of the resources available to assist you in ensuring that entrance counseling is conducted with your student borrowers. As a reminder, you must ensure that entrance counseling is conducted with all first-time student borrowers before making the first disbursement {34 CFR 685.304(a)}.
We strongly encourage you to have your student borrowers complete interactive electronic entrance counseling on the Direct Loan Servicing Online web site at www.dl.ed.gov. If your school conducts entrance counseling in person or by audio-visual presentation, you may supplement the counseling session with an entrance counseling guide that contains all of the required information that must be provided to student borrowers through the counseling. We have prepared a new entrance counseling guide, incorporating the recent regulatory changes, for you to use with your student borrowers.
If you need entrance counseling materials within the next few weeks, the new Entrance Counseling Guide for Direct Loan Borrowers is attached below in PDF format and is also available on the Direct Loan website at www.ed.gov/directloan. The guide can be downloaded and printed, as you need it.
If you have already placed an order for entrance counseling materials, we expect to begin shipping guides to you around June 24, 2003. To place an order for guides, you may contact Customer Service at 800/848-0978. We will have enhanced entrance and exit counseling materials printed and available for you this fall. Thank for your patience as we develop these materials and your ongoing partnership in the Direct Loan program.
Sincerely,
Jane Holman
Acting Director, Title IV Delivery
Schools Channel
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