10/11/2005
School Users Can View Meteor Data via Mapping Your Future

School users logging into Mapping Your Future's (MYF) Online Student Loan Counseling (OSLC) FAO Access Area can now view borrower data in Meteor. MYF is a Meteor access provider, authenticating school users so they can access Meteor data without establishing a separate login. OGSLP participates in Meteor as a data provider.

Meteor provides financial aid professionals with the ability to access timely, student-specific financial aid information from multiple sources. It is a shared effort of leading Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) business partners who have chosen to sponsor the project. Currently, Meteor provides information on FFELP loans and alternative loans. Over time, it is the sponsors’ vision that it will include information on Direct Student Loans, Perkins Loans, Pell Grants, and state grants.

To view borrower data via Meteor, login to your secure FAO Access Area on the MYF Web site. You will see the Meteor logo under the link within a box labeled Meteor Access. Follow the link, which will open Meteor in a separate browser window. Your MYF session will stay active until you logout or close the browser window, or until it self expires after 30 minutes. Once you have accessed borrower records in Meteor, click "Logout" to end your session and close the browser window.

Data providers currently participating in Meteor provide over 70 percent of the FFELP guaranty volume, and that number is growing. Borrowers whose lender, servicer, or guarantor is a data provider will have records available for your review. A list of Meteor data providers is located at www.nchelp.org/pages/page.cfm?id=50. More data will be available as additional organizations sign up as data providers.

School access is the first collaborative effort between MYF and Meteor. MYF volunteers and Meteor advisory and technical team members are working on other projects, including displaying Meteor data for borrowers during their exit counseling sessions on MYF. The joint team is developing a proof of concept for this project and then will look to do a pilot with one or more schools.

If you have questions about accessing Meteor data from MYF, contact CariAnne Behr at feedback@mapping-your-future.org or (573) 634-8641.