Choosing to outsource the evaluation of financial need can provide some distinct benefits for both the school and its students:

• Professionalism  An outside service gives your program greater objectivity and an association with national standards.
• Confidentiality  Parents are more comfortable providing confidential information to an outside service and will generally furnish more complete information to them.
• Expertise  An outside service provides expertise to both administrators and parents during the application process.
• Impartiality  An outside service is prepared to evaluate all family financial conditions, including those that own significant assets, corporations, partnerships and farmland.
• Ease  An outside service can free up the financial aid administrator from most of the clerical work and parental contact involved in processing financial aid requests and substantially reduce the total cost of the process by using appropriate technology.
• Accuracy  An outside service will bring confidence and fairness to the distribution of your financial aid funds.