Financial Aid :mad:

[_Lost_]

So Thursday night, I was talking to my friend from the school I just transferred to and she tells me that she got her financial aid refund on wednesday, but I still hadn't gotten mine. So Friday, after the mail had come and my check still hadn't come, I called the financial aid office at my uni. The conversation basically went like this:

"Hi, I'm calling because I still haven't gotten my refund check and my friend got hers two days ago."

"Ok. Let me check your file...."

...

"Well according to our database, you still haven't cancelled your financial aid at your previous university." <<<--- I cancelled my financial aid for that school on November 17th of last year.

What wonderful people! My term starts Tuesday and they hadn't been bothered to inform me that I was 4 days from being dropped from all my classes and losing an entire semester.

So then I had to drive the hour and a half to my old uni (I tried calling but kept getting machines), so that I could get them to write a letter to send to my new school saying that I had in fact cancelled it. I get there and they pull up the NC database for financial aid (the same one that my new school told me said I was set up for financial at my old school). They told me that they hadn't a fucking clue what my uni was talking about because nowhere in there did it say that I was getting aid and the school hadn't received a dime for me. So in the end, they sent 2 or 3 politely worded emails that said they were wrong and that I wasn't enrolled there or receiving any money from them.

By the time I got home, the problem had been fixed in the computers. But see, I still have no money. And I probably won't get my refund until the end of this week at the earliest.

Class starts Tuesday and they don't seem to give a damn that I have no way to buy my books. I'm having to borrow $500+ bucks from my dad so that I can get them before classes start. Its not like its gonna be a long time before I can pay him back, but I shouldn't have to do that at all!

I took care of all that shit in November, so that I could avoid mess ups like this. This is so messed up! I'm so bloody pissed right now!:mad:

Most of you are either in college, recently graduated, or getting ready for college in the next couple of years. If you have had to deal with any BS like this, please, share your stories.

[Rag Doll]

i'm in my 5th year, and i have bigger horror stories every single year, so i won't get into it.

my worst involves going to england for school, having to go home after only attending one class (medical issues), and then not getting a dime back from the school for tuition (cambridge university reimbursed me for my room though...oh, and the school also didnt get travel insurance, so i had to shell out $1000 for another plane ticket too). the school's financial aid claimed i went to every class, despite the registrar and professor's and cambridge saying i didnt....so i didnt get any of the tuition back. yay.

[IamSam]

I've had issues each year here, normally because they change how they communicate with you every year. I'm really scared now because I just had a name change. I think I may not inform the college and continue to go by my previous name here in order for there to be no screw ups.

[ilovellamas]

My university charged me out of state tuition this year. I may have only been a resident of Minnesota for a year where I wasn't actually in school... but my entire life before that, I was a Wisconsin resident, and Wisconsin residents actually have reciprocity here and pay LESS than a Minnesota resident to go here. So, as a WI resident, I'd pay almost $5,000... as a MN resident, I'd pay almost $6,000... my student account listed $12,000. All my financial awards went to that total, and so I didn't get a refund check. Instead, my account says I still owe $4,000.

So I had to go through this huge hassle of a filing a petition that I'm a Minnesota resident. I have to actually prove why I deserve to pay resident tuition, even though I haven't lived in a "Non-resident" state since I was 2 years old.

On top of all this, the petition required my driver's license number, for which I took my license out of my wallet (where I ALWAYS keep it), and the next day I went on a trip to Wisconsin for the basketball game... forgot to the my DL back in my wallet beforehand, and after the game when we tried to go bar hopping, I realized my DL wasn't in my wallet. My friends were like "great, we have to go all the way back to the house to get it?" and I was like, "....no.... it's in Minnesota..." SUCKY.