May 2008


Students Get A College-Planning Jump Start With The CollegeSTEPS Program!

The CollegeSTEPS Program can help your students who are just starting high school begin planning for college. Once they enroll, Students will receive emailed tips to help them stay on track with college planning from freshman year through their graduation.

Plus, during their senior year, students are eligible for the CollegeSTEPS Scholarship Sweepstakes* and could win money for college.

There is still time for this year's seniors to enroll and become automatically eligible for the CollegeSTEPS Scholarship Sweepstakes. We are continuing to hold monthly drawings for $1,000 tuition prizes until the end of May 2008, when this year's final winners will be drawn.

Students can sign up online at www.wellsfargo.com/collegesteps.

*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.  No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win this Sweepstakes. Purchase does not improve the chance to win. Sweepstakes starts June 1, 2007, at 7:01 a.m. (CT) and ends May 31, 2008, at 7:01 a.m. (CT).  Sweepstakes is open to any current U.S. resident, who is a high school senior during the 2007-2008 school year, who graduates from high school in 2008 and who enrolls in the CollegeSTEPS Program.  Limit one entry per Eligible Entrant during the Sweepstakes Period.  Void to residents of NY, FL and RI and where prohibited or restricted by law.  Actual odds of winning depend upon the total number of entries received.  Please see https://wfefs.wellsfargo.com/csteps/rules.jsp for the Official Rules.

Student Loan Selector Offers College Financing Options

As your students receive their college acceptances and award letters, they may have their first bout of panic about how they're going to pay for college. If their financial aid package isn't enough, there are still more student loan options to help cover their college costs.

Wells Fargo offers a Student Loan Selector tool to help inform students of their federal loan options as well as their best-fit alternative loan, based on their program and the school they're attending. (Depending on the processes of the school they're attending, students may be directed to contact their financial aid office for more information.)

Students can find the Student Loan Selector at www.wellsfargo.com/student in the right-hand corner titled “Find the Right Loan.”

A Financial Literacy Lesson For Students from the Hands on Banking® Program

Each year there are 27 million victims of identity theft every year in the United States.  Identity theft can seriously damage your students’ credit and financial reputation.

 You can help your students avoid financial fraud and protect their money and identity. This lesson from the Hands on Banking Program has information on: 

  • ATM, debit and credit card safety
  • ATM safety
  • Mail safety
  • Telephone safety
  • Online safety
  • Home safety

The Hands on Banking Program and the Spanish-language version, El futuro en tus manos® are free, fun, financial educational programs designed to teach the basics of good money management and the skills to create a brighter financial future. The above are key points from one of the lessons the Hands on Banking Program offers students. Developed by Wells Fargo as a free public service, these innovative programs contain no commercial content. The program can be presented as a classroom activity (it includes a teacher’s guide), or students can walk through it on their own. Find the program in English at www.handsonbanking.org or in Spanish at www.elfuturoentusmanos.org.
At Wells Fargo, we are committed to educating our customers about fraud and identity theft protection.
We encourage you to visit our Fraud Information Center.

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