Posts Tagged as ‘financial aid’

October 9, 2008

When battling customer service, arm yourself!

Last month I wrote about solving my financial aid problems – well, it was premature. I should have known better. Until that student loan is in you account, you don’t have it. And no matter how promising customer service representatives sound, its never a done deal until the check has cleared.

Well, I can say *now* [...]

September 8, 2008

Free at Last!

Well, kinda- I’ve finally regained control over my account at the school. Because of a confusion with financial aid, there was a past due balance on my account, and so a “stop” was placed on my account. That meant I couldn’t add any courses (or drop any either) and it cost me a spot in [...]

August 14, 2008

Financial aid and other brick walls…

I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with financial aid. I love to get it, but hate to deal with all the hurdles.
When I started this foray into grad school, I was amazed by how simple everything was -especially compared to how it was when I went to undergrad. I’m not THAT old, but things have [...]