Financial Aid Awarding

Make Informed Award Decisions Faster

An ever-increasing percentage of students are requesting financial aid to further their education. As a financial aid counselor, you want to remove as many barriers as possible to offer access to postsecondary education to the greatest number of students possible.

The Perceptive Software solution for financial aid awarding creates efficiencies across the entire verification and awarding process, allowing financial aid staff to advocate for a greater number of qualified students.

Now, your financial aid team can efficiently and securely manage financial aid packets submitted via mail, e-mail, fax, your school’s web site and any other method. Our solution enables you to simplify the verification of data between your SIS and financial aid documents, making awarding faster than ever before.

With the Perceptive Software solution for financial aid awarding, your team can:

• Streamline the collection of complete financial aid packets
• Simplify verification and speed award processing
• Improve student service and increase access to education
• Boost employee productivity and satisfaction
• Reduce costs associated with misplaced documents 

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College of Southern Maryland’s (CSM) financial aid office employs Perceptive Software’s financial aid awarding solution to efficiently process thousands of files each year. The solution imports documents, links them to student records in CSM’s student information system and makes the updated files available to enrollees via their user accounts in the college’s student services system. CSM has cut in half the time it takes to process each financial aid document.