<p>Today we dropped D off for freshman year. She preordered books from the bookstore but the lines was so long today she decided to try and pick them up tomorrow. There was a seperate line for people to pick up "book vouchers" - I had never heard of this before - something about charging books to tuition account? It was too busy for me to inquire at the time, but wondered if anyone here has used this system and how it works.<br>
This is a small private school and I don't believe any students receive books costs as part of their $$$ award...</p>
<p>As far as I believe, my son has received a financial aid award for the entire school tuition, which is set up to include an estimate of how much books would cost. These book vouchers that you speak of are foreign to my knowledge, but I believe that there is a certain voucher that emanates from the financial award of "leftover money" that can account for that. I'm not really sure though.</p>
<p>At my son's school you can charge your books to your student account. It is then billed like tuition. There is a limit per semester.</p>
<p>At my D's school they are allowed to spend $500 at the book store the first week of school. Up to this amount is billed to the account - they call this a $500 voucher. After the first week students need to pay (cash, check, or credit card) for what you buy.</p>
<p>Your comments make sense - I do know this school has no "full-rides" out-right unless people make up costs with scholarships. I guess I was just surprised that their was something they "offered" that I had no clue about!</p>
<p>At my son's school I also had no clue. Due to some unusual circumstances we had to visit the finance office when dropping off. The woman who helped us gave us all sorts of info we had no clue about. Students can charge up to $850 a semester in the bookstore to their student account. Students also can cash a check for up to $50 a day in the finance office. No need to go find a bank or ATM. We would have had no idea that these services were offered.</p>
<p>At the school I work at, if the student's aid, including loans, adds up to more than tuition, they can be issued book checks to use at the book store. these are mostly very low income students, who would not have book money otherwise (work pays for bus fare, phone, clothes, etc--they rarely get anything from parents.) I don't know if this is the same thing, though.</p>