College is trying to screw me over?!?

bjkmom
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:37:02 +0000

Question:

You’ve said repeatedly that you “don’t have $3450.”

But you agreed to spend the semester in a dorm-- where would that money have come from had you stayed?

I hope you find a legal way to get out of paying this.

But think for a moment of how you would feel had the situation been reversed: had they decided at the last minute that there wasn’t room for you after all. You would have been outraged, right?? You had a signed contract that guaranteed a room in return for the agreed upon price.

Their point of view, as others have explained, is that until the day your mom withdrew you, they assumed that you were abiding by the terms of the contract you had signed. They were unable to offer your room to someone else as a result.