Features & Benefits

Conductor's around-the-clock student guidance and communication is a boon to students and financial aid administators alike. It allows financial aid administrators to:

  • Reach out to all who have applied for aid,
  • Offer awards to those who have been determined to have need,  and     
  • Provide alternative financing options for others,

All without one phone call, mailing, or fax.

At a Glance

Feature Screen    Benefit

Award Letter

 
  • Individualized online award letters allow students to quickly and easily accept or decline offered financial aid.
  • With awards delivered electronically in real-time, Conductor speeds up the process of delivering financial aid, allowing your online award letter and financial aid information to beat the rush to your students’ mailboxes.
  • Conductor’s advanced content management system allows schools to customize clickable explanations of all financial aid terms.
  • Detailed reports provide school administrators with up-to-the-minute status of all award letters.

Planning Worksheet

 
  • An interactive planning worksheet helps students and their parents determine the best way to pay for college.
  • Conductor makes your first impression count by instantly presenting your case for affordability and providing planning tools to meet the cost of attendance.
  • Customizable help text encourages the use of students’ own resources and all scholarships and grants available to them before considering loans.

Financing Options

 
  • Detailed, side-by-side comparisons of all financial options, including estimated monthly payments, help students make the best possible choices.
  • Budgeting tools help students and their parents devise a plan to fulfill unmet need.
  • Detailed explanations and clickable links ensure that students and their parents fully understand their options.

Task List

 
  • Track students’ progress with a personalized Task List that guides them through the process of funding their education.
  • Conductor presents students with a personalized list of required loan and award fulfillment tasks and steps, along with their statuses.
  • Students are empowered to initiate self-service actions to accept awards and are reminded to complete critical follow-up tasks such as loan application and loan certification.
  • Administrators can track students’ progress through the task list, providing extra counseling and guidance to students who need assistance.

Parent Login

 
  • Afford parents/guardians with student-initiated FERPA-compliant access to financial aid information and counseling.
  • With a secure, read-only account, parents/guardians can work with their students to determine how the family can best finance the student’s education.
  • Parents can view the progress of the student through the financial aid process and provide them with any necessary support to complete it.

Counselor Portal

 
  • Develop a bond with students by using the counselor portal to provide them with rapid responses to their queries and issues.
  • Securely discuss the details of a student's case in order to give them advice that pertains to their personal situation.
  • Store notes on a student's case in order to keep all counselors on the same page and able to provide the highest quality service.

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