<p>@cococo44, in order for this to work, you have to intend to pay the balance in full. No reductions or discounts. Start making payments today, even if they are small. I paid $50 a month and it adds up. You have to speak to them as if you’re going to pay it off, but that it’s a huge amount that may take a long time. Ask them not to remove the hold, but if there is a process that will allow them to release it one time for, say, a job. But that you intend to get it paid off. Try transcript appeal, start throwing out numbers. For instance, 50% shows you’re serious about paying off the balance, and you of course want your transcript to be clear to send to other people so you will continue to make regular payments.</p>
<p>The financial aid you may get if it was clear looks tempting, but even if you have the amount to pay off in financial aid, they won’t let you use it for this. The Pell Grant I would have received would have been enough for me to pay the balance on the old school, but they couldn’t do that because aid is supposed to be used for the year it’s granted.</p>
<p>@swoonsong I will try to do that and I don’t know for sure my transcript will be released after I have paid 50% of the debt and regular payment plan after that. For transcript appeal, do I need to fill some forms ? Does transcript appeal work for any college ?
So you mentioned you get $ 600 as grant from school, and you also said grant covers your tuition fees and books.
Does grant from school cover everything ?
Did you fill out FAFSA for your current community college even though you didn’t get transcript from old school at that time ? Since you said the pell grant you would have received, did you know how much pell grant you would of got before you get your transcript ? That is the question I think of very often, like even after I paid my debt at previous college, will I get enough financial aid to attend another college or can I even qualify or sth like that.</p>
<p>So even if I get enrolled by another community college as a degree seeking student before my transcript is released, will I qualify for financial aid ? Do I have to have official transcript in order to apply financial aid and actually receive the aid ? Even though I never applied FAFSA before, do I need transcript to apply ?</p>
<p>You need to talk to the college. You MUST be a matriculated, degree seeking student to get federally funded need based aid. I would imagine this is true for institutional need based aid.</p>
<p>Until you can be enrolled as a degree seeking, matriculates student, you cannot receive aid.</p>
<p>And to become a degree seeking, matriculated student, you will need the transcript from school 1.</p>
<p>But maybe I’m wrong. Go talk to school 2 and see what they say. Be honest. Say that you are working on a payment plan with school number 1.</p>
<p>But keep in mind…school number 2 is very unlikely to want to give you THEIR money when you owe money to another school…in my opinion.</p>
<p>That is correct. In addition, you will really on,y be able to take a certain number of courses as a visiting student…before they will expect you to matriculate. You need to find this out as well.</p>
<p>@thumper1 As a visiting student . I do not need any admission requirements and can attend any class I want. Do you think the credits I will get as visiting student will be able to transfer to other university ?</p>
<p>Maybe. But you have to be very careful NOT to exceed the amount of credits (in total…from school 1, and your CC), or you could have transfer issues.</p>
<p>And for that other university…your debt to school one will need to be paid.</p>
<p>As I said earlier, each school has its own policy on how to treat visiting student credits from another school. There is no way that anyone here is going to be able to give you one answer to that without knowing the name of the other school.</p>