To access Financial Aid Self-Service, you'll need your SFC Username and ID that the college has created for you. If you have any questions or issues with your SFC Username and ID you may contact the SFC IT help desk at 718-489-5444 or email [email protected].

Please follow the steps below to access your Financial Aid information online using Financial Aid Self Service.

• To log into Self-Service Financial Aid, please go to the student portal and click the Self-Service icon in the APPS section, and then click the Financial Aid box.
• Enter your SFC username and password.
• Review your personalized Financial Aid checklist for documents needed and action items.
• If there are documents needed, click on any documents needed to hyperlink directly to print the required form(s) for completion. We cannot issue a final award to you until we have received all the documents requested on your financial aid checklist.

You will have to accept your award(s) in order for financial aid to disburse. The first step is to accept or decline all offered awards. To print a PDF copy of your award letter, the acceptance process must be completed first (paper signed award letters will not be accepted, all aid must be accepted through the portal).

To accept or decline your offered Stafford Student Loans and Parent Loans, complete the following steps in Self-Service Financial Aid:

1. Check your SFC email for a notification that your award letter is ready to review.
2. Please log into Self-Service and select the Financial Aid tab.
3. Select "Review and Accept Your Financial Aid Award Package."
4. Here you may accept the entire loan or decline the entire loan. Otherwise simply select "Accept" or "Decline" under each loan offered.
5. If you are a first time Stafford student loan borrower at St. Francis College, you will need to complete Stafford Loan Entrance Counseling and the Master Promissory Note at https://studentloans.gov/myDirectLoan/index.action. Self-Service will prompt you to complete these requirements, if needed, in the Loan Requirement Checklist section.
6. If you are accepting the Federal Parent Plus loan at St. Francis College, you will need to complete the parent loan credit check the Master Promissory Note at https://studentloans.gov/myDirectLoan/index.action.
7. Once you have accepted or declined all offered awards, you may proceed to accept your Award Letter.
8. Once steps 1 through 6 are complete The Office of Financial Aid can then move ahead and process your awards.

To help keep you on track, our Self-Service Financial Aid has a checklist of steps necessary to complete the financial aid process, in sequence, for the following financial aid year. In addition, this checklist includes:

• your current total amount of federal student loan debt, according to the National Student Loan Data System

• Helpful links to key sites including, such as Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the myDirectLoan page, where Entrance Counseling and the Master Promissory Note (MPN) can be accessed.