<p>Okay, so I'm going through my e-mail and receive a message stating that enrollment is in danger due to an unpaid balance. Looking at my e-bill, I find I owe 2k, which should not be possible, except that my financial was decreased, again. My FA keeps getting decreased at an alarming rate and making me owe money that I should not be owing. My mom paid the last bill two weeks ago! Is anyone else having this issue?</p>
<p>Each person has unique circumstances and income levels. Call financial aid and discuss immediately. This is not the forum to debate your situation and it serves only to scare people. </p>
<p>Financial aid is decreased when your tax returns and other indicia indicate that you have more money available or an increase in income. </p>
<p>Appeal your case. They will work with you. But being nasty and negative wont help. I empathize…its frustrating. Been there. Be forthright and focused but not nasty or threatening. </p>
<p>Its also possible to graduate early to save money if you have the credits completed. My kid finished a semester early and used the savings toward graduate school.</p>
<p>I am a student at Fordham. I have not heard of anybody’s financial aid being reduced by the school although sometimes the financial aid shows up late online. As far as I understand it, financial aid would only be reduced if: a family’s financial situation improved or a student didn’t keep up the B average needed to retain his/her merit aid. I agree with sovregndebt in that you should contact the school so you can understand the problem and work to come up with a solution.</p>
<p>Our fin aid is not posted to the account yet. Don’t panic yet ��</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. It turns out that they don’t count the loans, so it came up as unpaid balance. I apologize for the tone, I didn’t mean to come off as nasty and rude, I was just really worried.</p>
<p>Understood. The same thing happened to us, and with grants etc. Good luck to you.</p>
<p>I have to say-- their website is very confusing! If you look under student accounts you won’t find a record of your financial aid (the finaid tab is also currently disabled, at least on our screen.) But if you go to “my e-bill suite” you will find a bill with your “estimated” financial aid at the top. If your “term balance” = your “estimated financial aid” you should be good. I have no idea why they don’t make this easier to understand, as they must be fielding plenty of panicked phone calls.</p>
<p>I understand. I think they needed to lessen the automatic e-mails for non-compliance a little, since a person might have been compliant, but it didn’t show up on the site. This seems to cause an e-mail to be sent, causing the person to worry. It gets a little frustrating at times.
Also, the financial aid works, but you can’t always go by that it seems, since my Pell grant was reduced, but they never put the change in the awards area. :(</p>
<p>I am not defending financial aid…been there and done that. Its a confusing process and they make it difficult with some students working part time answering questions who give talking points answers and arent helpful. Its important to find out the financial aid officer working on your file and contact them directly and appeal your case, explain circumstances and so forth. Of course outside independent loans are available from many lenders…but they can be higher interest rates.</p>
<p>Finally, if you did your core work and completed your major requirements its possible to graduate a semester early. You will walk in May with your classmates and can participate with all the Senior events in the Spring, you just complete your work, get the Dean to sign off and at graduation you are listed as among the February 2014 graduates…not late bloomers, but early birds! LOL. In that way you save a semester of loans and expenses, get an early jump on job searches and its all good. We did that to save money for graduate school and it all worked out well. I told my kid no sense paying all that tuition to take electives and hang out with senioritis friends in the apartment (Campbell) on campus. Made no sense. Its a very reasonable alternative.</p>
<p>I doubt I’ll be finishing a semester early. Plus, I’m trying to get into the 3-3 program for the law school, so I won’t be saving any money.Eh, I think the price will be worth it. Also, I wasn’t talking just about the finance with the non-compliance thing. I’m also having issue with the health office about immunizations. Called them four times and co firmed that they have the form, but since it’s not checked off on the site, I’m ‘non-compliant’. :(</p>
<p>In regards to the immunization form: did you make a copy of what you sent them? Did you make sure you had your Fordham ID number on the form and stapled all forms together?
Depending on when you sent the forms they’re probably back logged. I mailed my D’s form back on 6/18. I didn’t see a green check until mid-July. She also took the math placement test and that had a red check, then green check, then disappeared and reappeared with a red check, then back to green and now it’s gone completely.
Right now we’ll be happy to know housing/roommate assignments. Holding off buying some stuff until she knows. Meanwhile everyone else my D knows going to other schools know their schedules/roommates/have ID cards. </p>
<p>Plus it would have helped if they added that AlcoholEDU to the summer checklist. She knew nothing about the timeframe for that at all.</p>
<p>With me, here’ an extra issue with an immunization forms that got sorted out, so hopefully they will stop sending e-mails.</p>
<p>For the alcohol thing, a lot of that was either in the e-mail or info packet you were sent. It helps to check the Fordham e-mail every day in order to be up to date on everything. It makes everything much easier.</p>
<p>Hope you get your immunization records straightened out. </p>
<p>Thanks for the info. There weren’t any emails and I’ll have to ask her about any info packets she received. She accidentally left her orientation folder at a friend’s house so it may have been in there, and that was back in June. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>