Student Enrollment Services

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• Student Enrollment Services

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Session Overview

• Academic Services
• Financial Aid Student Employment
• Billing Information
• Eagle One Cards
• Meal Plans

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Academic Services

• Course registration
• Degree audits/academic advising
• Academic Records

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Course Registration

• Orientation for fall semester
• November for spring semester
• April for fall semester
• Academic advisors

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Degree Audits

• Computer generated tool that enables both the
  student and the faculty advisor to assess the
  students academic progress.
• Matches courses to degree requirements including
• Core
• Major(s)
• Minor(s)
• Language
• Electives
• Students received their degree audit at
  orientation and they will receive one each
  semester from their faculty advisors.
• Students may request their degree audits and
  simulated degree
• audits on-line.

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Transcripts Grades

• Students may request on agora that grade mailers
  be sent to them each semester.
• Students may request transcripts online
• Professors post grades to the student system
  they are available immediately to students.

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Academic Recorders

• Academic Records Specialists monitor the academic
  records of students in their respective schools.
• The academic team answers questions regarding
  student academic records, degree audits and
  progress towards their degrees.

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Financial Aid

• Need based
• Awards
• Student Employment
• Appeals
• Financing

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Financial Aid Need Based

• All financial aid awarded by Student Services at
  Boston College is need-based.
• Need-based aid assumes that the parents and the
  student are responsible for the cost of education
  to the extent of their ability and that financial
  aid will be used to supplement the effort of the
  family.

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Electronic Award Notification

• Students access their awards through Agora using
  their usernames and passwords.
• No paper awards
• Students should have received their financial aid
  awards.
• Students who have not yet received their awards
  should contact the Office of Student Services.

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Outside Aid

• We are required to count outside aid as a
  resource in the award.
• This may result in adjustments.
• Please give us notification as soon as possible.

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Student Employment

• Jobs will be posted Opening Weekend at
  www.bc.edu/studentemployment
• Positions are filled on first come, first serve
  basis.
• Student is paid weekly through direct deposit
  into checking/savings account.
• Student bring original birth certificate or
  passport for I-9 W-4/M-4.
• Off-campus jobs can be found at
  www.collegehelpers.com.

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Appeal Process

• You have the right to appeal your financial aid
  award it may be reconsidered
• If errors are made
• in the annual financial aid application
• in the calculation of the financial aid award,
• or if the familys circumstances change
• However, adjustments cannot be made which require
  exceptions to the standard principles and
  practices used for all families.

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Alternative Financing

• Total aid including alternative loan cannot
  exceed the cost of attendance.
• PLUS Loan www.bc.edu/plus
• Other financing options are available at the
  student services website www.bc.edu/paymentoptions
  

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uccessful tart is a program created to educate
students about their finances while at Boston
College and prepare them for financial management
for life. The goal of uccessful tart is to
provide Boston College students with a series of
presentations related to all aspects of personal
financial management. Website
www.bc.edu/successfulstart Email
successfulstart_at_bc.edu
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Billing Information

• Payment Policy
• Billing Statements
• Payment Due Dates
• Methods of Payment

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Payment Policy

• Boston College requires that tuition fees be
  paid in full on the due dates each term unless
  you enroll in the Universitys monthly payment
  plan.
• The fall semester bill was due on August 10, and
  the spring bill will be due on December 10.
• If you anticipate any problem in paying, please
  call us. All billing is electronic. No paper
  bills will be sent home.
• Students must authorize their parents to receive
  billing statements.
• Visit www.bc.edu/mybill for more information.

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Miscellaneous Fees

• Campus Health Fee 402
• Identification Card Fee 30
• Student Activities 138
• Orientation Fee 400
• Total 970
• lab fees range from 70-305

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Medical Insurance

• Massachusetts law requires that all undergraduate
  students are enrolled in a Health Insurance Plan.
  Students are enrolled automatically in the BC
  Health Insurance Plan and the charges are added
  to each semesters bill - 738 in the fall 940
  in the spring
• Students who are covered by a family plan may
  waive this fee by going to Agora and clicking on
  Uview and then medical insurance.
• Students enter their insurance information the
  fee is credited immediately back on the bill.
• Students under the age of 18 must submit a
  completed paper waiver signed by their parents.
• This is an annual process.
• Fall deadline is September 12, 2008

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Health Services Fee

• All undergraduate students are charged an annual
  health services fee of 402 for medical care at
  the university health service.
• The fee is separate from the medical insurance.
• Students living off campus may waive the fee.

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Adjustments to Your Bill

• Financial Aid Awards
• Work-Study
• Pending Credits
• Outside Scholarships

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Financial Aid vs. the Bill

• Actual credits
• Boston College Scholarship
• Federal Supp. Ed. Opportunity Grant (SEOG)
• Pending credits
• Federal Pell Grant
• Federal Stafford Loan
• Federal Perkins Loan, MA No Interest Loan,
  Nursing Loan
• State Scholarship
• Aid that does not credit bill
• Federal Work-Study

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Payment Options

• ACH / ECHECK Payments
• Checks
• TMS Payment Plan
• www.bc.edu/paymentoptions

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ACH / ECHECK PAYMENTS

• To make a payment to your students account go to
  http//agora.bc.edu/web.payments
• You will be asked if you want to pay tuition or
  add money to Dining or Eagle Bucks or to tuition?
• Click on the one you want - You will need to know
  the students eagle number and month and day of
  birth.
• Follow directions from there.
• You may also make a tuition payment as an
  authorized payer on MyBill.

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TMS Monthly Payment Plan

• The university offers a monthly payment plan
  through Tuition Management Systems (TMS) that
  allows students to pay tuition and required fees
  in 10 monthly installments.
• Under this plan, 10 monthly installments are due
  from May 1, 2008 to
• Feb. 1, 2009.
• You may sign up for a 5 month plan for the
  spring semester - from October 1, 2008 to
  February 1, 2009
• Deadline to enroll for spring is October 31,
  2008
• Cost is 35 for the 5 month plan
• 50 for the 10 month plan
• Refer to https//www.afford.com for information

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Eagle-One Card

• Serves as the official identification card for
  students, faculty staff.
• Serves as a debit card for
• dining halls, vending machines, laundry
  machines, bookstores off-campus merchants

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Meal Plans

• Residential Meal Plan and Residential Dining
  Bucks
• Required of all first year students anyone
  living in a residence hall that does not have
  cooking facilities.
• 2,225 will be on the students eagle one card
  each semester.

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• Residential Meal Plan
• 2,100 per semester
• On-campus restaurants
• Residential Dining Bucks
• 125 per semester
• On- campus restaurants
• Vending machines

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Two Optional Plans

• 1. Optional Dining Bucks
• 2. Optional Eagle Bucks
• Pre-paid declining balance accounts
• May be opened anytime

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1. Optional Dining Bucks

• Saves 10 20 at participating dining halls.
• More appropriate for students who do not have a
  residential meal plan.

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• 2. Optional Eagle Bucks
• Offers greater flexibility
• Allows students to make purchases at
• on-campus dining locations
• residence hall laundry facilities
• BC bookstores
• off campus restaurants
• food delivery services
• retail merchants
• food delivery/taxicabs/dry cleaning

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How do students track their purchases and
balances?

• Students check their balances online or at the
  cash registers.
• Students use the online Meal Plan Calculator to
  determine the amount left per day for the
  semester.

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Adding Money to Dining or Eagle Bucks

• Parents can add funds to the students Eagle
  Bucks account by going tohttp//agora.bc.edu/we
  b.payments
• Click on Eagle Bucks account and follow the
  instructions. You will need to know the students
  eagle number and month and day of birth.

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Summary

• Student Services is a one stop shop a central
  point of contact for students and their parents
• Offers in one location the services of the
  Registrar, Financial Aid, Student Accounts and
  Campus Based Loans.
• Our team of experts can handle any financial or
  academic question that our student or parents may
  have.

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Parents Web Page

• Go to www.bc.edu/studentservices
• Click on Parents for central contact point
• Check on financial aid application status
• Make E-Payments
• pay tuition fees
• add money to Dining Eagle Bucks
• Helpful Links

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Contact Us

• By telephone at 800-294-0294
• By fax [phone]
• By email at studentservices_at_bc.edu
• By mail at
• Boston College
• Office of Student Services
• Lyons Hall
• 140 Commonwealth Ave
• Chestnut Hill, MA 02467