Clarity Financial Aid Home

Prepare Your Platform

Use this checklist to update your school settings after rollover (mid-August). New Schools will complete these steps during onboarding.

Prepare Your Platform

• [ ] Fee Waivers - Please reach out to your CSM to ask for additional individual use application fee waivers if you’re a school that uses them.

Communicate to Families & Prepare Your Website

Application URL for Your Website: **https://auth.clarityapp.com/en/signup/**

• [ ] Double check that the Clarity application fee is listed as $65 in all materials, websites, etc.
• Clarity Graphics (apply button and logos)
• Video Introduction to Clarity

Sample Text for School Website

Parent/Guardian Clarity and ETV FAQ’s

Step by Step Instructions for Completing the Clarity Financial Aid Application

Step by Step Instructions for Completing the Clarity Financial Aid Application (Spanish)

Announcement Email Template about Switching to Clarity

• Communication Template for Returning Families

Family Support Resources

Bookmark **Family Support** for easy access to resources for school users to share with families! These include quick videos to resolve the most commonly asked questions.

Family Application Guides

2025 Financial Aid Family Application Webinar Dates

Family Support Contact Information

All set! You’re ready to go live!

Do a little happy dance. You are about to make life easier for your financial aid families and for yourselves! If this is your first year using Clarity, email your CSM if you would like another set of eyes on your settings before you go live!

• Need a Clarity refresher - scroll through our library of **How Do I...?** or review a current/past list of trainings in Professional Development
• If you find that the Clarity platform is still opening to the 2025-2026 applicants table, you have the site bookmarked to that page. Update your bookmark to **https://auth.clarityapp.com/en/signup/** and it will always open to the current enrollment year.