Hi, I recently graduated from a community college with a n AA-DTA degree and I applied and got accepted to a private college. Not knowing that a private college is super expensive and the aid didn’t cover it, I am playing to withdraw from that school and return to my old college for a new degree.
My question is that can I turn to my old college and receive aid for a new degree? I know it’s better to ask the FA office but it’s the weekends and I kind of need an answer now to help clear my head. Hopefully someone has been in my shoes before!
You may be able to return to your CC, but do you owe money to your current school even if you withdraw? If you’ll owe money, then that may be a problem.
Just curious, why did you start at this private school when your aid pkg wasn’t enough? Once you saw the aid pkg, why did you start school there?
No I don’t owe any money to the private school. We start on the 9/28 so I never began class there yet. I didn’t know it wasn’t enough at first. When I started to look deeper into the details I saw the little things such as loans, work study, cost of each credit and I didn’t want my family to pay that much. At the time I didn’t think about the true cost of the private school and I was sort of pressured to finding a school to attend.
So you never register any classes? And your student account balance is $0?
You’d have to formally withdraw from the private school. That means contacting registration and formally withdrawing from each class, alerting the financial aid office so any loans can be cancelled, and canceling your meal plan and housing.
If you have a cc degree, you’re better off spending your money at a 4-year public to get a bachelor’s degree. A 2nd accociate’s degree won’t help you as much as a 4-year degree will.
ok…so on Monday contact the school and withdraw. or, look at your portal and see if you can withdraw that way.
I did register for classes but I did drop them. I well contact them when I can on money about withdrawing from the school. I know is dumb to get a second associste degree but this one is a new major I would be more interested in and hopefully do better to get into other schools.
I’m just still wondering if I can apply for aid at my previous school for my new degree.
Don’t waste your time and your remaining financial aid by going back to your CC, especially if you have already completed the degree. You may find yourself running either running out of money when it is time to get your bachelors or over the credit limit and not being eligible for aid.
Go to you old CC to talk to your transfer advisor about attending an affordable state university, within commuting distance (if it is unaffordable for you to dorm).
The counselors at your CC will be able to tell you whether or not you are eligible for any more aid, and how many semesters it might take you to complete a second major there. Depending on what it is you want to complete your bachelor’s degree in, you might not need to take any classes at all! You might just need to take the fall semester off while you apply for transfer to an affordable state U, and start there in the spring semester.
Dropping a class is not withdrawing. You must contact the registrar and then the bursar to make sure that you are formally withdrawn from the university and that your balance is zero before you move on.
Agree with the other posters that a Bachelor’s degree is going to help you more than going back to CC.
Thanks fo all the help guys. I really appreciate it. One thing I know for sure is that I want to leave the private school and try to find a state school. I was planning to get a psychology degree by my gps probably isn’t the best for something that competitive or to get into a good college near my area. I was planning to major to computer science before I’m around and understand technology a bit better. Electives might not be a problem just the core class.
The threat to your access to financial aid is real. Please heed the advice to consult about when (after how many credits) it will run out. Take this warning VERY SERIOUSLY.