• Student Loan Basics
  • Introduction to Financial Aid
  • Understanding Student Loans
• Successful Repayment
  • Rights and Responsibilities
  • Repayment Schedules and Options
  • Ensuring Financial Wellness
  • Calculators
  • Tools
• Repayment Challenges
  • Delinquency Consequences
  • Delinquency Timeline
  • Repayment Options
  • Who Is Contacting Me?
  • Deferment and Forbearance
• Managing Default
  • ASA’s Role in Your Loan
  • Default Consequences
  • Recovering From Default
  • Loan Dispute and Discharge

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The Winning Score: How to Make Credit Work for Students!

Course Description

In this highly informative and interesting session, participants will learn and discuss how a student’s use of credit affects their credit score, and how they can improve their score. Get these and other important questions answered in a 2-hour workshop covering the important details about credit and the credit industry.

Who Should Attend

All Students

How You Will Benefit

Understand such basics as: How are credit scores determined? What can you do to increase your score? What do students need to know to stay ahead? And much more!