Pay for books? Bursar? Financial Aid?

<p>If you haven’t gone through with a loan and are relying on financial aid, how do you go about buying books? Is there a way I can charge bursar (without a cornellcard), or should I do something else? Should I just get a cornellcard (is it too late?) and buy my books on credit? (is there a fee/interest if there’s no money on your card?)</p>

<p>mercy beaucoup!</p>

<p>Umm…Cornell Card does have a fee, but it was like 10 bucks or something, I don’t remember. If you rely on financial aid (as I do) then you pretty much have to use the Cornell Card to buy your books. At the end of the month when you get your Cornell Card statement, ask them to transfer the balance to the bursar. Do that, and you can use your financial aid to pay for the Cornell Card balance and not pay interest either. It’s what I do.</p>

<p>As for applying, you can apply at a kiosk inside the Cornell Store itself. It’s like a 3-minute process, then your Student ID instantly doubles as a Cornell Card as soon as you press submit.</p>

<p>cheers!</p>

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<p>yeah soccer is right…</p>

<p>Do you get your cornellcard statement through your cornell email or what? How do you transfer that to bursar so you don’t get a monthly fee?</p>

<p>Also, how do you use BRBs? Can I use them say at that dining all near the AG quad on tower road? Do I just get the checkout person my student ID card and tell them I want to charge BRB?</p>

<p>thanks for the help!!</p>

<p>The dining area you speak of is most likely Trillium and they only accept BRBs/CornellCard/Cash/Credit card. Just give them your Cornell ID…you don’t need to say anything. If you want to use your CornellCard…then you should specify that.</p>

<p>Your CornellCard statements shows up on your bursar account, but as a separate statement (So you’ll see bursar charges and CornellCard charges). Go to [Cornell</a> University Bursar Services](<a href=“http://www.bursar.cornell.edu%5DCornell”>http://www.bursar.cornell.edu) and select the option to view/pay your bill.</p>

<p>I just put my books on a credit card…this won’t have any effect on my finaid though will it? My grant was just a lump sum, but they figured the cost of books into the total estimated cost of attendance to determine the size of my grant, correct? It doesn’t matter how I pay for the books does it? I have to go to day hall monday to pick up a refund check they just emailed me about that I will use to pay off the CC bill.</p>

<p>can BRBs be used at the dairy bar?</p>

<p>BRBs can be used anywhere except Temple of Zeus…or whatever it’s called. </p>

<p>There is a list of dining halls and accepted forms of payment on the dining website. </p>

<p>Hermanns…it doesn’t matter how you pay for your textbooks. I always paid for my textbooks with my credit card and paid the bill when my refund was direct deposited to my bank account.</p>