Directions and Information

Application Instructions

1. Establish your account.
   • Enter your account information exactly as instructed on the form.
   • Click the 'Create My Account' button
   • Write down your user name and password for future reference when re-entering the system.
   
   
2. Fill out your application.
   You can complete your application in any order and save your work and come back to it later - even from a different computer!
   • If your application has more than one page, use the 'Save and go to page: 2,3,4' button to move to another page.
   • To save what you've done so far without exiting, click the 'Save this page' button.
   • To save what you've done so far and exit (you'll be taken to your Activity Log), click the 'Finish Session' button.
   • To reaccess your application to continue work on it, return to the application menu, select the application, and enter your user name and password when prompted.
   
   All of your saves and transmissions are logged in your Activity Log for your review.
   
   
3. Make corrections to your data.
   You may see a Data Correction Page when you move from page to page or click 'Save/Pay/Send'.
   A Data Correction Page appears if you have omitted a required field or entered data incorrectly. Changes you need to make appear in red text. Simply enter the correct data, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click the 'Make the corrections' button.
   
   
4. Save/Pay/Send your application.
   Check your application carefully. When you are satisfied with it and are ready to send it, click 'Save/Pay/Send' at the bottom of the last page. This saves your data in its final form and takes you to the payment page where you pay your application fee online.
   
   Your application is not sent until you pay your application fee and it is authorized (step 5).
   
   
5. Pay your application fee online.
   On the payment page, you can pay your application fee by debit/credit card or check (US bank accounts only).
   
   If you're paying by debit or credit card:
   • Fill in all information, including the complete credit card number, expiration date, and card billing information.
   • Click the 'Submit this information' button.
   
   If you're paying by check: see instructions.
   
   Once payment is authorized, your application is on its way, and you can no longer make changes to it.
   
   Security Information: Your debit/credit card information is encrypted during transmission from your browser to our server and during payment authorization. None of your debit/credit card information is stored in our database.
   
   
6. Check your Activity Log to print a copy of your application or to find out if we have received it.
   
   
7. Close your browser program when you're ready to end your Web session.
   This clears your password and secure connection.

Hints For Filling Out Your Application

• Select the correct postal code using the "view codes" link for US state and Canadian province names.
• Select the appropriate residence and/or citizenship country code using either the "view codes" link or the Search button (depending on which is on the application you're filling out):
  • If there is a "view codes" link: Click the link, search for your country code in the window, close the window, and enter the code in the application.
  • If there is a Search button: click the button and select your country code from the list. It will be automatically entered in the application.
• Separate digits in telephone numbers with dashes only, no slashes or parentheses.
• Check your application over carefully before sending it!
• Also, be sure to send transcripts, test scores, and/or letters of recommendation as soon as they are available.

Web Application Features

• The web application server stores the information you enter under the private user name and password you establish.
• Nothing you enter on an application form is sent until you transmit it. That means you can set up your account, fill out information on an application form, change it, and save it free of charge, without worry of disclosing any information before you're ready.
• You don't have to complete the application in one sitting. For example, you can start working on the application at your library's web terminal, save your work, recall it from your web terminal at home, and continue working from there. Wherever you have access to the Web, you have access to the information you've saved.
• Your data is transmitted securely over the Internet. The information you enter is encrypted and secure when you save it and when you send it.
• When you save or transmit application information a note appears in your Activity Log. You can easily check your Activity Log at any time to see your application activity and to find out when we have acknowledged receipt of your application.

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