How To . . .

2025-2026 (fall 2025, spring 2026, summer 2026)

2024-2025 (fall 2024, spring 2025, summer 2025)

Summer 2025

---

2025-2026

• Accept Your Financial Aid through Wingspan

• Complete Entrance Loan Counseling  (first-time loan borrowers)
• Complete Exit Loan Counseling  (students who borrowed loans and are leaving Winthrop)

• Create a FSA User ID (pdf - 2.03 MB)
• Create a FSA User ID: Video

• Graduate PLUS Federal Direct Loan Application Process - available late April 2025

• IRS Tax Return Transcript Request Online Method (pdf - 211 KB)
• IRS Tax Return Transcript Request Other Methods (pdf - 134 KB)

• Parent PLUS Federal Direct Loan Application Process - available late April 2025
• Private Loan Application

• Sign Your Master Promissory Note  (first-time borrowers)

• Submit Documents

---

2024-2025

• Accept Your Financial Aid through Wingspan

• Complete Entrance Loan Counseling  (first-time loan borrowers)
• Complete Exit Loan Counseling  (students who borrowed loans and are leaving Winthrop)

• Create a FSA User ID (pdf - 2.03 MB)
• Create a FSA User ID: Video

• Graduate PLUS Federal Direct Loan Application Process (pdf - 498 KB)

• IRS Tax Return Transcript Request Online Method (pdf - 405 KB)
• IRS Tax Return Transcript Request Other Methods (pdf - 384 KB)

• Parent PLUS Federal Direct Loan Application Process (pdf - 587 KB)
• Private Loan Application

• Sign Your Master Promissory Note  (first-time borrowers)

• Submit Documents

---

Summer 2025

• Graduate PLUS Federal Direct Loan Application Process (pdf - 212 KB)
• Parent PLUS Federal Direct Loan Application Process (pdf - 258 KB)