Once you apply and are admitted to Friends, there are a few steps everyone needs to complete in order to officially become a Friends Falcon. Directly below is the Falcon Flight Checklist for New online Undergraduate students.
If you are a Continuing FriendsFlex Undergraduate student, your checklist is slightly different and can be found by scrolling down a further or clicking here.
These are items that new Online Undergraduate students must complete before the start of their classes. Even though it may seem like a lot, we’ve made it easy with this page. Break it up into steps and finish one a day. You can always come back later to finish the rest. This page will be here whenever you need it!
To keep up with the status of your action items, sign in to your Falconhub Dashboard (link)! There you will see which action items have been completed (green) and which have yet to be finished.
Complete your Falcon Flight:
Note: these items are not in any particular order, so if one task takes more time, you can skip it for the moment and move on to the next one.
- Financial Aid
- Complete your FAFSA online at fafsa.gov if you are planning to use any type of federal financial aid, including grants and loans. Use Friends University’s school code: 001918.
- Contact our Financial Aid Office with any questions you may have regarding the status of your scholarships, loans, and/or grants. You can reach them via phone at 316-295-5100 or email at financialaid@friends.edu.
- Become Fully Admitted
- Work with your admissions recruiter to ensure you have everything you need to become fully admitted. Not sure who your recruiter is? Call 316-295-5100.
- Become Enrolled Full-Time
- Sign up for an enrollment appointment with an Academic Success Coach.
- (Directions on how to do so will be emailed to you once you are admitted to Friends University.)
- Complete your online Tuberculosis Questionnaire
- For the following steps you will need your network username and password, which should have been emailed to you. (If you cannot find this email, or if you have trouble logging in, please contact the Friends HelpDesk at (316)295-5767 or helpdesk@friends.edu).
- Go to the friends.edu website.
- Hover over Students at the top left-hand side of your screen.
- Click on FALCONHUB.
- Use network credentials provided by HelpDesk to login (example: first_last and password).
- Scroll down and select TB Form.
- You will be contacted if additional steps are needed.
- For the following steps you will need your network username and password, which should have been emailed to you. (If you cannot find this email, or if you have trouble logging in, please contact the Friends HelpDesk at (316)295-5767 or helpdesk@friends.edu).
- Sign up for an enrollment appointment with an Academic Success Coach.
- Sign your Student Payment Agreement
- Once all charges are placed on your account (housing if applicable, meal plan, tuition, fees) and you have completed the financial aid process, you must sign a Student Payment Agreement that indicates how you plan to pay.
Once your Falconhub dashboard is all green, that means you’re cleared for flight and you’ve completed all the necessary steps for enrollment.
All you have left to do is RSVP for your New Adult Student Orientation! Here you’ll get learn the ins and outs of what Friends University has in store for you. RSVP Today! And don’t forget to buy your books here!
Falcon Flight Checklist for Continuing Online FriendsFlex Undergraduate Students
These are items that continuing FriendsFlex Undergraduate students must complete before the start of each semester at Friends University. It may seem like a lot to do, but you have time! Finish one step today, then come back later to finish the others. This page will be here whenever you need it!
To keep up with the status of your action items, sign in to your FalconHub Dashboard! There you will see which steps have been completed (green) and which have yet to be finished.
Complete your FALCON FLIGHT:
Note: these items are not in any particular order, so if one task takes more time, you can skip it for the moment and move on to the next one.
- Financial Aid
- Complete the Financial Aid Process
- Complete your FAFSA online at fafsa.gov if you are planning to use any type of federal financial aid, including grants and loans. Use Friends University’s school code: 001918.
- Contact our Financial Aid Office with any questions you may have regarding the status of your scholarships, loans, and/or grants. You can reach them via phone at 316-295-5100 or email at financialaid@friends.edu.
- Complete the Financial Aid Process
- Take Care of your Holds
- Student Accounts Hold
- This hold is placed on your account if you have an outstanding balance with the university. Make a payment online or in-person to remove this hold. If you have any questions, contact the Student Accounts Office by visiting 106 Sumpter Hall or calling 316-295-5630.
- Advising Hold
- This hold is placed on your account every semester, which is released by your academic success coach when you meet to create a course schedule for the upcoming semester. Be sure to schedule an appointment with your academic success coach to get this hold removed.
- Student Accounts Hold
- Become Enrolled Full-Time
- Meet with your Academic Success Coach
- Schedule an appointment to meet with your Academic Success Coach and create a course schedule for the upcoming semester. Once enrollment opens, use the course schedule that you and your academic success coach created to enroll through FalconHub.
- Instructions for Enrolling in Classes:
- Log into FalconHub
- From the Student tab, click Enrollment
- Click Register for Classes
- When the Action Item Processing pop-up appears, click Continue.
- You will see a Financial Responsibility Agreement that you will need to read. Click on the box next to Electronic Signature to electronically agree to the above. Then click Continue in the upper right corner.
- Select the Term for which you wish to register and click Continue.
- Use the Find Classes page to search for a course. (You may select multiple subjects in your search. You can also search by CRN under the Enter CRNs tab).
- Once you have located the course(s), click Add to add the course to your Summary.
- Select Submit in the bottom right corner of the screen to finalize enrollment in your selected classes. Please contact your academic success coach if you receive any error messages preventing registration (i.e. prerequisite error, class is full, time conflict, etc.).
- Meet with your Academic Success Coach
- Sign your Student Payment Agreement
- Once all charges are placed on your account (housing if applicable, meal plan, tuition, fees) and you have completed the financial aid process, you must sign a Student Payment Agreement that indicates how you plan to pay.
Once your Falconhub dashboard is all green, that means you’re cleared for flight and you’ve completed all the necessary steps to keep on being a Falcon!