<p>the stipend does not represent the same principles at all, its a stretch to compare the two, as the school told you it was an error to get the “refund” but let it slide because it wasn’t worth suing you and didn’t want to hastle with you suing them</p>
<p>apples and oranges</p>
<p>The school absolutely, positively did not tell me “the ‘refund’ was in error and they were letting it slide because it wasn’t worth suing me” as you say in post 41. Did I read that correctly? Where did you get that? Did you mean to say they said “the refund was in error”, and that you, personally, are guessing they let it slide to avoid hassle? The statements have 2 very different meanings.
I’ll remind you the school also told me more than once that student was entitled to refund. You seem to pick the one of the schools’ answers you like best, cgm, and assume that is the only one that could be accurate. How could you know so definitively what they were thinking? One Bursars staffer there didn’t even know what another bursar staffer was thinking, and yet you KNOW what they were thinking? As I have relayed on these 2 threads, different persons/departments at the school have given me more than one explanation, and I’m not sure which I believe. Having agreed to their offer however, it makes little difference which explanation I believe. Personally, I doubt the school would forget the funds just to avoid hassle from me. I’d be a fly buzzing by an elephant. Further, they have all the leverage since student still attends there. If they wanted to claim student owed school tuition money, and wanted to pressure him, they could prevent him from registering next semesters classes, withhold grades, withdraw scholarship, or prohibit school privileges. Given that the school gave me a number of different answers, but settles on(my wording here, paraphrasing) -that yes, its what was offered, yes, its what u accepted, but was not really our intent to offer what we did, so, you can keep the one refund sent by mistake if you’ll disregard what we wrote, accept what we now say was our intent then, and waive claim to all other refunds- well, I’m a bit skeptical. I wonder “is the last one the one real, right answer, or just the one they think is best to use?” As the joke goes- that’s my story and I’m stuck with it. Nevertheless, I thought their offer reasonable, and accepted it to achieve a quick and friendly close.
Much like that agreement, its time for my posting on this thread to come to a close. My thanks to all those who offered encouragement, their similar personal experiences, and their opinions here.</p>
<p>this is where i got it</p>
<p>“At first they said since committee’s intent was exact tuition only, then refund and subsequent explanation of refund were in error and we should return the refund promptly”</p>
<p>It is amazing that people would even thin they deserverd to get the difference between oos and instate tuition in cash back for something they got for free</p>
<p>astounding and without ethics imo, as stated by many others, with who I often disagree</p>
<p>doing the honorable thing…wish I saw more of it</p>
<p>Well younghoss, I am glad things all resolved themselves in a positive fashion. I appreciate your willingness to bring the details back for follow-up and explanation. Good luck to you and your s.</p>
<p>CGM-
It seems like this poster has ween whipped and attacked for his supposed terrible ethics and immorality from about every angle. Is there some enjoyment received from this?? With all due respect, the honorable thing to do would be to cut that out.</p>
<p>
I am not going to comment on my opinion of the rights and wrongs of the situation but am puzzled by this statement regarding taxes. Scholarships for the amount of tuition and fees are not taxable. They should not have been shown on your tax papers as income. Only scholarships/grants over the amount of tuition/fees are taxable. The refunded amount would be taxable as that was in excess of tuition/fees. But not the tuition waiver.</p>
<p>becuase he basically said I made something up and there it was in his own post…chewed me a up one side and down the other…and he denied he school ever said the “refund” was in error, and yet, I quote him on it </p>
<p>And I do believe what he did was wrong…it was morally wrong, he got away with it because the school wanted to cut their losses</p>
<p>It is almost as if he was bragging about getting away with it…and that is not something one should be proud of, imo</p>
<p>when one comes here and posts how they get to keep the money they really didn’t rightfully deserve, even by their own admission, they open themselves up to critiscm.</p>
<p>Should we all just go, you go dude!!! Right on!!! Take that money and run.</p>
<p>And just becuase someone in some office said it was a deserved refund, when it got lucked into properly it was determined it was not deserved, but the college let it slide because the extra expense of fighting it or trying to get it back was not worth it</p>
<p>CGM-</p>
<p>IMO he has tried over and over and over to explain the situation. Some just seem to choose to see it their way-- to impose their views with their perception of the “facts” and continue to whip him. IMO what is morally wrong it to keep on chewing at this-- </p>
<p>Not sure where the notion came from that the school decided “it was not worth the expense to fight it”. That seems to be your opinion, which is fine. But to state it as fact is unreasonable, IMO. OK-- you don’t like what happened. Most readers here likely get that. Seems like any solution other than the OP throwing the money back at the school and begging forgiveness will be unsatisfactory to you. I might gently suggest you just agree to disagree with him and let the man be.</p>
<p>jym626- In case you haven’t noticed prior to this CGM makes a habit of picking fights and berating people on these boards. I have learned to skip anything she writes hopefully OP does the same.</p>
<p>Thanks, 2by2, I hadn’t noticed ;)</p>
<p>This ought to be one of the most bizarre threads ever to adorn College Confidential. </p>
<p>I am truly sorry for having wasted my time in a vain attempt to understand this incredibly sordid tale of greed.</p>
<p>I must say, it boggles my mind that someone would think it’s okay to expect the school to give the student the difference between th OOS tuition and the instate tuition. The school’s error was in their original wording. Not that they meant to give the student the difference, but in not realizing that someone would think they would be entitled to that. I’m sure they have changed their award letter since then to reflect their true intentions.</p>
<p>When my son received his full tuition scholarship the letter gave a dollar figure by saying “worth approximately XXXX”. I took it to mean exactly that. If the amount changed my son would receive full tuition. Period. Not more or less.</p>
<p>The resolution was more than fair to the student. Had the school meant to award a stipend, they would have. They let the student keep the difference because it wasn’t worth the hassle of arguing. That’s what settlements are.</p>
<p>I guess different scholarship offers come in different packages.</p>