<p>First off I would like to say I have read two topics on the forum before starting this topic and I believe my son's situation may vary a bit. I understand it costs a great deal of money to run an internship program or clinical program(which my son is in).</p>
<p>Anyway onto my son's issue. My son goes to a college in Ny and is studying Radiological Sciences. His school costs nearly 19,000. His first two years are spent on campus and his second two years are spent at a sister school that prepares him for his registry. While at the sister school we still pay his tuition to his school that gives him his degree and they handle paying the sister school(the sister school if he went for just his registry training is nearly 4000 cheaper). Now he's already started the program in the sister school. He still has to register a "drone class" that is 12 credits at his original campus for every semester.</p>
<p>We were just informed after the year has started that he will be responsible to pay for the credits he receives during the summer. The summer is all clinical that is managed by the sister school. They aren't asking for the money(they are already paid), The school awarding him credits is(They have no expense or staff involved at the sister school) </p>
<p>We had no warning of this as well as about 10 other families who have kids in the program. We also have good reason to believe students that have gone threw this program before have not had to pay for these summer credits until now. He has a set curriculum at the sister school and can not choose his schedule or program structure. So even if he wanted to do his clinical during the year he is forced into it by the sister school. </p>
<p>Is it right for his degree awarding school to ask for that money even though they have no expense and the sister school is already completely paid? The sister school's full rate includes fall, spring, and summer incase there is any confusion.</p>
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<p>The next thing I wanted to mention is that students as part of this sister school can start at the sister school, complete their certification and then switch to the other campus and transfer all those credits for their degree, easily avoiding the charges for the summer classes. Should I consider removing my son from his BS program and have him finish his certification and then transfer back? He's completed all his BS curriculum on the original campus so I'm not really sure how that would work.</p>
<p>Think of your son’s situation as equivilant to study abroad. In that case, you pay the original school’s tuition, and almost always their study abroad tuition would be less expensive – except you don’t pay there; you pay at your original school. Sounds to me, you need to make a few phone calls to get this straightened out. Maybe the “sister school” shouldn’t have charged you.</p>
<p>You should realize that colleges are a business and while they aren’t currently educating your son, they do have to maintain his academic records.</p>
<p>“Maybe the “sister school” shouldn’t have charged you.”
The sister school isn’t charging my son anything. They are paid their 14,500 price tag by his original school(which charges nearly 19,000). I can understand a nominal fee for “keeping his records maintained” but if you look at the big picture you’ll understand my questioning of this. If their are 10 students in this program and they charge each of our kids about 10,000 dollars for summer classes(remember the other sister school who is actually running their current program is 100% already paid) our kids degree awarding school is averaging about 100,000 dollars a year bare minimum for close to no expense. All his school is doing is having their students register for a drone class. </p>
<p>I understand having to pay for credits earned during an internship, clinical, student teaching program, which I do pay for to the school he is earning his degree at and they pay the sister school everything and still average to make money off of the transaction. I should add that this sister school is really awarding the credits, the degree giving school is only really transferring them to their records. (It doesn’t sound like it should carry a $10,000 price tag)</p>
Isn’t that exactly what’s happening? Your son is earning internship credits during the summer, and his home college is charging him regular tuition for those credits. </p>
<p>It may be upsetting that the sister school would charge considerably less for those same credits (since summer credits are included in the academic year flat rate?) but there’s nothing unusual happening here. If you would rather pay tuition at the other school, have your son transfer there.</p>
<p>My S2 has to do an internship for the Spring 2011 semester. He gets nine credit hours for it.
He also has to take one online class for three credit hours. We still have to pay all the regular full time student tuition and fees even though he will not step a foot on campus or get any instruction or aid from the school. He has to find the internship himself with no assistance form the university even though we are paying full tuition for the semester. </p>
<p>Similar thing happened with S1. A summer internship was req. for his major. Due to military commitments S1 was unable to do it. His advisor worked out a deal whereby his summer military service could count as the internship. Even so, S1 had to register for the summer internship class and we had to pay tuition and fees. It had to show on his transcript so we had to pay for it. Doesn’t seem right but happens a lot.</p>