Really naive question regarding tuition payment schedule

anon94785555
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:28:52 +0000

We’re lucky- semester tuition payments are always due a few weeks after the session starts at public U. Son’s final semester will be billed only electronically- no more bright yellow envelopes sent to him at our home address. We’re also lucky we translated our own educations into financial well being. The dorms were quarterly payments with the first one due before school started. Of course there were deposits and summer orientation fees due in spring. All of this information should be on the colleges’ websites.

I’m still not sure how my parents managed to help me with my college expenses eons ago given their economic status. I remember deferring a one time scholarship award so I could max out on the then need based one time merit award through my state. It also helped that despite much lower minimum wages I was getting then that colleges costs were relatively cheaper than currently.