Medical Leave

idaisyi
Thu, 31 May 2012 15:05:15 +0000

My university’s financial aid office has been extremely confusing about this and I was hoping somebody might be able to explain to me what’s going on here. I took a medical leave of absence the first week of February this semester, and so attended my university for about a week. I was informed that I’d be receiving about a 60% tuition refund in accordance with the date of the leave of absence.
I received a decent finaid package from Duke, and all my costs are covered between my parents’ PLUS loans ($6k per semester), my small loan (about $1.2k per semester), and the university scholarship ($19k per semester), so I don’t pay anything directly out of pocket. The finaid office reduced the total loan amount on my package for the semester last month to ‘reflect the amount of time’ that I’d actually attended. So I’m still paying money for the amount of time that I attended, but I received a bill from the bursar’s office last week saying I have to pay about $4k still? Isn’t that like paying the full tuition for the semester? That was about the amount that my parents’ loans were refunded by, so if I paid that amount, it’d mean that only my loan was refunded. I am extremely confused, not sure if the Bursar’s Office knows that I actually took a leave of absence, and very strapped for time (the bill is due in a week).

I apologize if the post was confusing, because I am extremely confused at the moment, and parents are also very angry at me (or the school, or both) because of the situation.