<p>When should we expect the bills/statements for residence hall, meal plan, and tuition for fall? I'm getting nervous as we haven't received anything yet. Our deposits are paid, and my son has completed orientation and registration. My son is flying down in 6 days, and I'd like to get this taken care of. </p>
<p>Has everyone else already received their statements or bills or whatever they should be called? In which form did they come, and when?</p>
<p>Log into your student’s myusc account and set up parent logins (or you can just use his to see it all). Then go to the USC epay link on the lower left for info your statement. I remember wondering if we ever had to pay for it, because statements don’t come and it is not due as early as you think. That is the same place you set up the 5 installment payments if you choose to. I think first due date is 8/23. Frankly I don’t remember if we get paper statements. We have it set up on line and get email notifications when things are due.</p>
<p>oh and the USCard link is there too by the epay link, that is where we set up parent logins. (You can search USCard and get to that part directly too.) That allows us to put money on their USC card for campus stores and food places, laundry, etc. You can put it on your credit card to put it on their card. Ahhhh no more cash anywhere these days!</p>
<p>MyUSC has everything you need to know. Takes a while to know where everything is, but it is all there. Just stay away from web registration if logging in with their id! Frankly, we have our students login info (and they know this), but do have parent logins for the USCard. No secrets at our house.</p>
<p>You will only have access to your student’s bill etc… if they give you permission (they need to log on and select to give you access). College is entirely different than high school-- your student is now considered an adult and the responsible party.</p>
<p>Thanks CADREAMIN and camomof3. Yeah, son has agreed to let us have access to his grades while we are paying for most of his college expenses (outside of his scholarships). We haven’t worked out if we will have direct access to his account or if we’ll have to come up with another mechanism, but I’ll definitely get the parent account set up so we can make sure the bills are paid on time (hope our Toyotas have a few good years left!).</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, what other info is accessible on the student account and not the parent accounts besides schedule and grades? I am fine with having his health treatment records, for example, private if that’s his desire (I would never want him to avoid using health services because he was afraid we would see it).</p>
<p>Tuition for fall and spring is always due the Friday before the first week of classes.</p>
<p>The main stuff on the myUSC account is Blackboard (class websites with class grades), OASIS Student Records (degree progress and class records), Student email, and web registration for classes. The rest isn’t too important.</p>
<p>There are no student medical records online, so that privacy issue is not part of myUSC access. Full access allows one to see Blackboard (which may have current semester in process grades on essays / quizzes for particular classes), as well as grade reports for all semesters and Oasis data on courses still needed to complete degree. </p>
<p>Students may also elect to sign a FERPA waiver which allow parents access to other school data, including medical, disability services, or allowing the school and parent to talk on student’s behalf.</p>
<p>If they give you their myusc log in id, it is all there for you, no permission stuff needed (medical mentioned above excluded of course). Not weird for us to have full access to myusc at all. Nothing dark and mysterious going on there. If we wanted to go through his usc emails we could and he knows this, we don’t cause who cares, but it is there. We never followed their online grading systems in middle school or HS so won’t start now. But if you want to follow that, with their id, you can. On a side note, if the parent is paying the tuition, and putting money on their USCard, the student “being an adult” is a really big stretch. :)</p>
<p>We can see any and all USC stuff, but we don’t look at his facebook,we don’t have access there. Thank goodness :)</p>
<p>To be honest, almost none of my professors have ever published grades on Blackboard (I only had one who did)… OASIS, which shows class enrollment history, past grades, and degree progress, is probably the only thing you might ever want to look at and you can always just ask your son for that info.</p>