Blocked from enrolling in Fall Semester

Paying for College
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<p>What recourse do I have if my student loans are controlled by a college that refuses to allow me to register for Fall classes?</p>

<p>I finished the Summer Semester with a 3.5 gpa.</p>

<p>I am an online student, but this is an accredited college.</p>

<p>I have never broken a single rule. The only disagreeable thing I expressed was that if they didn’t want to answer questions, I would no longer ask them to.</p>

<p>Since I’ve only corresponded with them by email, I have a record of every single letter that transpired between us.</p>

<p>Nothing I have done or written is in any measure a violation. I have always been courteous. I simply stated that if they didn’t want to assist me, I wouldn’t ask of anything but the most basic things I needed to know.</p>

<p>I have tried since three weeks ago to enroll in classes.
I have asked Teacher, Recruiter and Advisor to allow me to enroll.</p>

<p>I contactor the advisor as instructed and waited patiently for two weeks for him to respond which he has yet to do to this date.</p>

<p>In the beginning I was able to enroll from the student page on the blackboard, but that has been disabled and is now unavailable to me</p>

<p>Classes that were available to me has started and are now closed to any new enrollments.</p>

<p>I understand it will take at the least two months to receive funds if I start the FAFSA process over again with a different school.
I was living partly on student funds and I would like to know if there is any chance of keeping my present loans since I have done nothing to be denied a chance to continue at the school.</p>

<p>This is an accredited, brick and mortar school.</p>

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<p>Some information is missing here.</p>

<p>First, are you sure this college is still in operation? (Just making sure, since you don’t name it I can’t know.)</p>

<p>Second, you should be able to phone the Admissions Office and start talking live with people right now this very second – it is Monday, business hours. Keep talking to people on the phone until someone can tell you </p>

<p>1) Your enrollment status (current student, suspended student, expelled student, on probation, etc)</p>

<p>or</p>

<p>2) Can explain why you are “on hold/can not register”</p>

<p>and</p>

<p>3) What the next step is to get enrolled or re-enrolled.</p>

<p>Seriously. Skip the emails. Drop any odd attitudes. Just be polite and keep asking questions.</p>

<p>A school can’t drop you for being mildly rude in emails… unless it is some really strange or unusual school. So, be nice (not because it is required, but because it will make your phone calls go smoother) and start calling people.</p>

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<p>Anna,</p>

<p>The college is still in operation.</p>

<p>It’s Friends University of Kansas. I did not know if you can mention the school in a post like this.</p>

<p>I posted this in the FA section because I wanted advice on what to do about a loan situation, not advice on how to keep asking for something that I shoulldn’t have had to ask for in the first place.</p>

<p>If you read my post, I stated that asking questions is the reason for this situation in the first place.</p>

<p>I also stated that they didn’t want to answer questions and I have a clear reason for thinking that.</p>

<p>I also stated that I have asked a teacher, the person who first admitted me, and an Advisor. That means that I have already repeatedly “kept asking” the question(s).</p>

<p>I also stated that classes have already started and are now closed to new admittance.</p>

<p>I stated that I was told to contact an certain Advisor and that I did so.</p>

<p>Emails was enough correspondance to get me admitted and enrolled, and through the Summer Semester; I see no reason it is not now, since I am a long distance, online student.</p>

<p>Since I am already a student who has been sucessful at the school, what is the reason I have to make so much more effort to continue, than I did to get started in the first place?</p>

<p>I never clearly indicated that I am a current student who has done nothing to be blocked from enrolling.</p>

<p>Most schools allow you to enroll and add classes from a webpage.</p>

<p>I have to pay back those student loans. I am not on scholarship. I am paying for a service.
I am paying nearly 400 dollars a credit for a computer program and teachers and advisors that gets angry and refuses to answer the most fundalmental questions. </p>

<p>I was actually and literally boycotted, for asking one question in a month.</p>

<p>The question was about fund disbursement.</p>

<p>I got a 3.5 gpa without having a teacher ao much as saying hi or bye to me—which is fine.</p>

<p>The courses and work are laid out on the blackboard.</p>

<p>All I asked, was to be able to enroll for the next Semester.</p>

<p>The catch 22 is; they don’t want to answers questions, but if I don’t ask, I get absolutely none of the information I need.</p>

<p>I waited nearly two weeks for that Advisor to get back to me, specifically, because I knew they didn’t want to answer questions from me.</p>

<p>But since the deadline for enrolling was looming and it didn’t seem like I was going to hear from the guy, I asked again about being allowed to enroll. That was about the sixth time.
Still no answers or correspondence and since when I was being recruited;the answers came almost as soon as the questions, I can only conclude that continuing to ask, is not going to get me enrolled.</p>

<p>Hence, the first lines of my post.</p>

<p>If anyone can advise me on that, it would be appreciated</p>

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<p>This should have read:</p>

<p>I clearly indicated that I am a current student who has done nothing to be blocked from enrolling.</p>

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<p>There is something bizarre about this entire thread. I sincerely don’t know if it is you or the college.</p>

<p>Forget the teacher or advisor–go to the top of the administrative chain of authority.</p>

<p>Your attitude is bizzare. You say “Emails was enough correspondance to get me admitted and enrolled, and through the Summer Semester; I see no reason it is not now, since I am a long distance, online student.”</p>

<p>When a problem occurs, then you need to switch the mode of communication. Phone calls are the fastest and most direct way to get the <em>information</em> you need.</p>

<p>Call and call and call different people in Administration or Financial Aid offices until you find out</p>

<p>1) your student status
2) your financial aid status</p>

<p>and any other helpful information.</p>

<p>Even if registration is closed, as a continuing student in hopefully good standing, the college may be able to make an exception and get you in classes. Especially if there was a clerical error on their part.</p>

<p>“Boycotted” as you mention above is not an official college status. Talk to someone higher up the chain than a teacher or advisor.</p>

<p>If you refuse to doso, I guess you are stuck.</p>

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<p>Friends University of Kansas, huh? If it had only been Friends University of Central Kansas, this would all make sense…</p>

<p>You kind of half to call though, as Anika said. Without a phone call, you can’t succeed in getting the attention you require from email. If there really isn’t anything wrong with your financial aid and enrollment classification, then it’s aprobably a clerical error that has to be readdressed up the food chain.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Anna,
I think the thread seems bizzare to you because instead of taking my post as they are clearly meant, you insist on interjecting and assuming.</p>

<p>When I said email correspondence was enough for me to get through the first Semester, what is unclear about the statement?</p>

<p>Suddenly people stopped being able to communicate by email?</p>

<p>In my opinion, it is the best way of communication because you have an automatic written record and clearly–judging by you–some people have a hard time comprehending and keeping interpretations out of even what’s written–much more what is spoken.</p>

<p>Again…the point of my post was not to solicit advice on how to beg my way back into the school,but on what to do about my loan situation.</p>

<p>You can’t seem to grasp that I am saying that I am being blocked from enrolling because of a reason.</p>

<p>I have done nothing to deserve that reason. So again…</p>

<p>I am not asking how to get back in a school that barred me from enrolling simply because they didn’t like a question I asked.</p>

<p>I am not asking how to enrol in a school that does not respond to myquestions or emails.</p>

<p>I am asking what can I do to keep my loans so I don’t have to wait two months after I transfer.</p>

<p>If you are going to insist that I’m asking what you imagine that I am, I guess something is bizzare here, but I don’t think it’s the thread.</p>

<p>Again…</p>

<p>I am posting in the financial aid section because I’m asking a loan question–not about how to beg up the chain of command.</p>

<p>I know my student status
I know my financial status</p>

<p>Never said I was boycotted by the school. I said my questions were being boycotted, so why would I change mode of communicating? So I hear silence over the phone?</p>

<p>Thank you for trying to help.</p>

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<p>As a matter of fact,</p>

<p>It is Friends University of Central Kansas</p>

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<p>I doubt a teacher or advisor can help you (by phone or email) with any FA dispursement–cancellation or otherwise.</p>

<p>Is the FA office returning your emails? Because they are the office you need to deal with. And a phone call can speed things up.</p>

<p>And I believe if you are not enrolled in a school that the FA would go back into the federal government’s kitty. I don’t believe you can receive monies (including what would have been diverted to your food/board) if you aren’t enrolled in college at the same time.</p>

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<p>I didn’t mean “keep” the loan (-:</p>

<p>I was hoping that because of the situation, maybe I could have the present loan transferred to my new school. That way, I won’t have to go through the wait of the process again.</p>

<p>I don’t know if they screwed me or not. I’m still in the system, I just can’t enroll and add classes.</p>

<p>Maybe they are waiting for me to call like anna insists.</p>

<p>But I think 6 times is double begging.</p>

<p>They always got the emails before.</p>

<p>I just want to go to a school where I just quietly handle my business without having to wheedle about everything.</p>

<p>Other schools don’t require all this. I know because I’ve checked out more than a few</p>

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<p>How can they disburse loans to you if you are not in school? They are student loans for a reason. Loans without school looks to be fraudulent on the face, but what do I know.</p>

<p>To the OP, what annika meant, and what I don’t understand also is why you can not enroll. I never heard of someplace that drops a student for “asking questions”. If you have not been permitted to enroll, but are not otherwise on suspension, expulsion or similar, perhaps you have a case with damages against the school, but you would need to consult an attorney experienced in these matters. Personally, your story does not make sense to me, but like I said before, what do I know.</p>

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<p>Cross posted with you OP. I don’t think you can just transfer the loan to a new school, but if you can be accepted at a new school, their financial aid office would be the place to contact.</p>

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<p>I understand what you meant, even if some people above are pretending not to :rolleyes:. You want to leave the current school and attend a new one with a new package of loans. That makes sense considering how they have mistreated you thus far. However, you’re going to need to call someone. IF you don’t want to interact with this school, you have to at least call the Department of Ed so that they know which school you want to transfer to.</p>

<p>I totally get why you want to leave, but you’re going to need to call the Department of Education (U.S. Government) in roder to notify them of your droppage. they’ll walk you thru any paperowrk necessary</p>

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<p>They could be up to something shady. In that case, the OP is wise to withdraw from them and get his name out of their system ASAP. There are schools who play fast and loose with federal funds, and they’re usually quick to have their accreditation yanked. In a sense, OP is lucky that these guys decided to freeze him out now before they lose their standing. At least now he can make a clean break and attend a real school next time.</p>

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<p>You need to apply to the new school. Apply for financial aid at the new school too. If you get accepted, the NEW school will award you a financial aid package that could include loans.</p>

<p>NO you can’t just “transfer” the Stafford loans or Perkins loans from School ONE to School TWO. </p>

<p>Now…if these are private loans that you took out for paying college costs, you can use the money any way you choose unless there is a restriction on the loan itself.</p>

<p>But for loans disbursed by the colleges…you can’t take them from one school to the next…the second school will likely award you loans and you can accept them but there is no truncating of the process.</p>

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<p>Bedouin,
Thanks for that post at 5:15.</p>

<p>It was everything I was looking for</p>

<p>I swear to God, on a stack of bibles, that for a minute there, I thought one of three things must have happened:</p>

<p>1 I fell into the twilight zone
2. I fell into the short bus
or three:
I fell into the Friends university college advisors convention.</p>

<p>Man them things had me thinking I was writing in Sanskrit</p>

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<p>Don’t be mean. :smiley: Your situation is unusual and it might be hard for people here to figure it out (especially if they don’t want to). Just know that you’re going to have to work this out with your new school and the gov’t, including a new FAFSA to reinstate your Stafford loan disbursements.</p>

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<p>I hate to say it…but this posters situation is NOT unusual at all. He has decided for one reason or another to transfer schools. He is asking if his loans from school one will transfer to school two. This is asked often on these forums. The answer is no. As I posted in post #15, you apply to the school and for aid at that school. The OLD school cannot “send” your aid to the new school.</p>

<p>Not unusual at all…happens all the time when students want to transfer and have financial aid at the first school. They often want to know if there is some truncated way to get their financial aid. The short answer…no.</p>

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<p>I was giving it my best effort. A few things were just a bit odd, the number one thing being the attitude that he wasn’t going to stoop to use a phone to call because he was feeling put out about the delays in email. That plus insisting talking only to teachers and advisors was enough to deal with what is now (solely) a financial aid issue.</p>

<p>I’m glad the info is starting to flow in the right direction now on this thread. Best of luck communicating with the FA office as needed now.</p>

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<p>You know, this thread sounds awfully ■■■■■-ish.
Anybody notice the initials of the college: Friends University of Central Kansas?</p>

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<p>To the op even if you know you’re being ignored you should still call the school and talk with someone about this. No, you can’t transfer financial aid from school A to school B. If you get into the school you want you apply for financial aid there at the school you plan to attend.</p>