My School Screwed Me! Help!!

kelsmom
Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:49:59 +0000

Your school has a policy of dropping students who have not paid for classes. BUT your school also has a policy that states that when you sign up for classes, you become responsible for payment for those classes unless you formally drop them within the drop/add time frame (all schools have this policy). Your aid paid out, as it was scheduled to do. At that point, your costs were covered; therefore, the school had no reason to drop you from classes due to nonpayment.

It was YOUR responsibility to drop your classes. You did not do so.

The refund check the school sent you - if it wasn’t automatically deposited in your bank account (some schools have that option, and you may have signed up for it if yours did) - would not be cashed if you never received it. Do not ask the financial aid office about it - they do not issue or track refund checks. Contact the Bursar or Business Office. Ask them to check to see if it was cashed. If not, tell them to stop payment on the check and put the money back on your student account. Then tell the financial aid office to return the aid that was refunded to you (that is what you owe - the aid refund that you did not “earn” - it had to be sent back to the government).