<p>I just spent most of the afternoon on the phone with the office of Student Accounts at my sons two schools. Here is the situation. Two sons, one a senior, one a freshman, at two different schools, both on a mix of school scholarship, third-party scholarships, student loans and parent pocket book. Two completely different COA. Senior son off campus, freshman in the dorm.</p>
<p>I went online this afternoon to make sure that both accounts were at 00.00, it being the end of the month. I found that Senior son had a credit of $4,308.62. That was odd, since I was sure I had not overpaid anything, and most certainly not by that much money. I check Freshman's account and find he has a DEBIT of ... $4,308.62. My first thought was that I had screwed up and send a payment wrong, although this was more then the parent pocketbook payment should have been at either school. But I was able to go through their account activity line by line and could see that I had in fact made correct payments. After much phoning and discussion at both school, we discovered that Senior's school had given him to much credit for a school sponsored scholarship and Freshman's had not given credit for a portion of a third party scholarship. BUT FOR THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT??? AND WHAT A WEIRD AMOUNT!!!!! I am convinced that the universe is trying to drive me mad!</p>
<p>Maybe the universe isn’t out to get you but trying to give you a hint on lottery numbers
Yes – I would definitely play the lottery with those numbers.</p>
<p>^^^^ That’s what I want to know! Perhaps if I knew the odds I could play the lottery, but then I would have to figure out what numbers the universe wants me to use. Is it 4 3 0 8 6 2 or is 43 0 8 62 or is it 4 30 86 2? It makes my head hurt.</p>
<p>is there some way that the schools use a third-party processor where both sons’ accounts have funds applied and/or subtracted? It’s too weird otherwise. But intriguing.</p>
<p>(I once had a checkbook snafu as the result of my monthly rent being the same amount as my biweekly paycheck, but that was my fault.)</p>
<p>I forgot the really weird thing. It was Senior’s school, where he had a credit of $4,308.62 that had the hardest time admitting that they had made a mistake. They kept wanting to send me a check for that amount!</p>
<p>I don’t know about the third party payer thing, although our boys names are very similar and they were often mixed up in high school so maybe that is the explanation.</p>
