Student Loan Repayment Advising Appointments - must sign-up in advance

You are invited to meet one-on-one with Jeffrey E. Hanson, Ph.D., a national expert on student loan repayment.  Students who are graduating in May are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this free opportunity to help plan for student loan repayment.  Please note these sessions are not intended for international students.  We will hold a separate repayment session in April for international students who borrowed a loan through Quorum Federal Credit Union.

Dr. Hanson will be on campus Monday and Tuesday, March 2^nd and 3^rd from 9:00am – 6:00pm

Sign up with Lisa Pastrick in room 113 Sage Hall for a 30-minute appointment with Dr. Hanson.  First-come, first-serve, space is limited, so sign up as soon as possible if you are interested in meeting individually with Dr. Hanson. Come to room 113 Sage between 8am and 4:00pm to sign up for your advising appointment.

To maximize the value of the one-on-one session, you are required to bring a PRINTED COPY of your federal student loan summary and loan details from the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)--a confidential database maintained by the U.S. Department of Education. Simply go the www.nslds.ed.gov and follow the directions for logging into your Financial Aid Review. The NSLDS information will be used to review the current loan holder and servicer information for each of your federal student loans, the current amount you owe on each loan (including accrued interest), and to provide an estimate of the minimum monthly payment that will be required under each of the federal student loan repayment options for which you qualify based on your current federal student loan debt. Do not download the data file that is available. Just print out the home page of the "Financial Aid Review" showing your loan summary. 

You also may want to bring a PRINTED COPY of a recent copy of your credit report to the appointment if you have other consumer debt such as private student loans or credit card debt. The credit report information will allow you to more fully discuss options for repaying any private students loans you have borrowed as well as to evaluate your overall indebtedness so that a strategy can be suggested for managing repayment of that debt in the context of repaying your federal student loans. You can obtain a FREE copy of your credit report once every 12 months from each of the three national consumer reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) at www.AnnualCreditReport.com as a result of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act of 2003. 

Written instructions are attached on how to obtain your federal student loan information from NSLDS and a free copy of their credit report from AnnualCreditReport.com.

You will leave your one-on-one appointment with an action plan worksheet that includes strategies for managing loan repayment and other useful information.

Lisa Pastrick
Assistant Director, Financial Aid
Admissions and Financial Aid
Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University
113 Sage Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-6201