<p>Son was offered, in writing,
out-of state 4yrs(8 sem), accepted the offer, and has been attending. Conditional on his grades, of course but they’re ok and not in dispute. Problem is that son is entitled to in-state rates, and has always been.
We feel son should be entitled to refund of the difference between his promised scholarship and actual tuition cost. Part of the trouble is, he is in 5th semester, we just now noticed the schools’ “error”.<br>
We have sent copy of letter of scholarship offer to school as documentation along with our explanation that a refund is in order. If school declines, what do posters here recommend we take as our next step?
Visit school in person? Contact our attorney? Let it slide?
We see it black and white- just as if we’s made $12 purchase at store and handed them a $20, we’d expect our change in return.
Other opinions?</p>
<p>Wait. You’re not paying any tuition at all, and because your son is considered “in-state” for tuition purposes, though he’s out-of-state, you now want a refund of what the full cost would be, if he were paying? Am I understanding you correctly? If so, I’m at a loss for words. Forgive me if I’m misunderstanding you, but if I’m not-- that’s a mind-blowing demand, and a breath-taking sense of self-entitlement on your part.</p>
<p>When a student receives a full tuition scholarship at an out-of-state school, but he or she is considered in-state for tuition purposes only, who do you think is picking up the tab for his “in-state tuition” costs? (hint: state taxpayers where the school is located). </p>
<p>I’m pretty confident schools have this covered, but yeah-- go ahead and approach them. I’d love to hear their response.</p>
<p>Your son is getting the instate tuition scholarship and not the higher out-of-state scholarship? </p>
<p>If the scholarship was a monetary amount, and not on tuition, I say that you may have a chance. If this is a public school, I say that you could win, but only after a big fight. If this amount is large, and you win, scholarships above the cost of tuition is taxable. So the question may not whether to see your lawyer but your tax accountant first (do not forget to had the few extra 100’s for extra tax preparation work)</p>
<p>I had the same impression as janieblue…am I missing something? Schools can ill-afford extra outlays of cash to a student just because paperwork incorrectly stated their status. Is what you mean and is this what you are expecting, younghoss?</p>
<p>Sorry I just don’t get it.</p>
<p>so you want the school to pay YOU for going there? </p>
<p>so say the “tuition” for oos was 20,000- so on paper the school is “giving” you 20,000 (not really, just not CHARGING you 20,000)</p>
<p>but you say that because you are instate, your tuition would be 12,000, so you want 8,000!!! </p>
<p>that is just tooo funny!!! If you think the school “owes” you real $, I find that really quite bizarre to be honest</p>
<p>Stop complaining, your child is receiving a full ride to school, grow up and and be grateful. If your sons package was readjusted for in-state tuition he would most likely be receiving far less aid. Some of us are actually working to be able to afford putting ourselves through public education, and not being offered full scholarships or anywhere close to full scholarships. Your post is most likely going to offend many hard working families. Take your greed elsewhere. You stand no chance in a court room either way.</p>
<p>Your child already has all his expenses covered, correct? And you feel it is justifiable to request a refund of tuition costs you are not paying? This makes absolutely no sense.</p>
<p>its not like the school hands you $ and you turn around and hand it back…they just DONT CHARGE YOU!!! </p>
<p>To even consider doing anything like that would make me want to take away the scholarship…to be very honest and to look at a way I could do it</p>
<p>Just to make sure I am understanding correctly - you son was offered an out of state tuition scholarship which you accepted? Now - after 5 semesters you have suddenly figured out he is an instate student all along so entitled to instate tuition in the first place? How did you not know that? Out of state tuition being higher than instate tuition you are seeking a way to get the school to give you the difference between out of state and instate tuition? Am I understanding correctly?</p>
<p>a. If he is an instate student for tuition purposes why did you accept the scholarship in the first place. Sounds like an error was made - by the school and by you.</p>
<p>b. Tuition scholarships are based on the cost of tuition. My daughter has a full tuition scholarship. The figures on her offer were ‘estimated’ based on average hours students take. If she does less hours her tuition costs less so her scholarship is less. If she does more hours (which is the norm for her) her tuition costs more so her scholarship is more. Your son has a tuition scholarship - waives the tuition whether it is $1 or $10,000 - tuition scholarships are not used for other expenses or refunds.</p>
<p>I think you will find the scholarship offer includes wording about the scholarship varying according to the cost of tuition. Don’t think an attorney would be able to do a thing for you.</p>
<p>The time to have addressed this would be when the scholarship offer was made. If he was an instate student and somehow was offered an OOS scholarship you might have been able to get a different (and maybe better) instate scholarship offer at the time. Bit late now.</p>
<p>How do you go 5 semesters before figuring out - ‘hang on a minute - he’s an instate student.’? I have to be misunderstanding something here. It sounds ridiculous.</p>
<p>^^ took the words right out of my mouth - be an adult. What is the justification for your request? You have not been paying a cent. If the technicality lies in your son’s residency considered out of state, it is most likely due to school administrative process, and the package would be reduced to the equivalent in state rates. Consider yourself lucky to have a scholarship and leave it at that you will just be making a fool of yourself.</p>
<p>HUH? Are you paying any tuition at all?</p>
<p>Based on our experience with S scholarship for his MS in Canada which exceeded the COA is not all together a great celebration. A lot of headaches, extra tax preparation and set asides for unknown tax liability.</p>
<p>S undergraduate college made a substantial error in his grant in his senior year but to his favor. We noticed the error soon after the awarding in Oct but we didn’t get it straighten out until Jan. I will add that I filed FAFSA in August (only to qualify for FEFL loans), we are 100% EFC. S grant is merit based. We were told to keep the extra grant even after I told them that S didn’t need the money, 3 times in written form, I told them thankyou but pass the money to someone else. The school said, their error, its already been booked. Great school, they get extra points, and periodic donations.</p>
<p>They could also say “oh you’re not an out of state student - then you’re not entitled to this scholarship at all” and take it all away. He accepted a scholarship he was not entitled to based on his residency (which surely you realized??
) so there are more ‘errors’ here than just the schools.</p>
<p>That would probably be my reaction. Good lord!</p>
<p>If my daughter had been offered an OOS scholarship when she was an instate student we would have called and asked what was going on.
This makes no sense. Maybe I need caffeine. Yeah that must be it.</p>
<p>I think you should withdraw from school. That will show em! </p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Like most others, I’m not sure I understand. You want the school to refund money to you because by accident they gave your S too much scholarship money? (scholarship was for out of state tuition but should have been in state). Maybe they should be asking you to give them money back. Sounds like you got too much money. Using your store analogy, it doesn’t seem like you paid any money at all for your item, so why would you be entitled to change. If you go to a store with a $100 off coupon and buy an $80 item, you don’t get $20 change. You got an $80 item for free. That’s a good deal. Maybe I just don’t get it. Could the OP explain if all of us are missing something.</p>
<p>Easy up on the OP. Mistakes happen and OP just wants to know some advice.
BTW, Congratulations on the scholarship, they are very rare indeed.</p>
<p>How do you get a refund on something you never for paid in the first place ?</p>
<p>You’re kidding, right?</p>
<p>But, if not, I think OpiefromMayberry has the correct solution to your “problem.”</p>
<p>Or, since it’s
I imagine you’ll have no problem getting the refund when you take in a copy of your cancelled checks showing the tuition you overpaid.</p>
<p>I’m wondering if OP’s S is OOS, but considered in state for tuition purposes because of some reciprocal agreement? In any case that wouldn’t matter–since you’re paying nothing, a refund is not in order.</p>
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<p>This does not seem to be a honest error of judgment. The entire notion that a school who is paying for your child’s education in full is not enough, that they should be reimbursing you for finances you have never incurred seems laughable.</p>