<p>This morning I called the USC housing office, and they told me to call the office of financial aid, so I did that.</p>
<p>When I got in contact with one of the people, they said that they could just charge it to my student account and that it would be taken care of for now, and it wouldn’t come out of pocket, but out of the money given to me as financial aid, which would come back when I needed it, as it does for everyone else.</p>
<p>I don’t have confirmation that this has happened yet, but I intend on calling back in a few hours to see if my payment had been received from my account, because on the application on the portal, the current step is still payment and I can’t go to contract/meal plan yet because I don’t think the payment has registered yet.</p>
<p>I’ll keep you up to date and let you know as soon as I know whether or not it has been made yet.</p>