<p>I did everything I was supposed to. I've been busting my ass since I got here, studying for hours and canvassing with a political campaign during my free time trying to pull together some amount of money.
But even working as hard as I can, I can't pay for school. My mom hasn't helped me, and the school doesn't care. I've pulled out every loan I could possibly pull out, and they basically said sorry but you have to go.
I just don't know what to do. I'm so frustrated - I was really looking forward to college and now I feel like my whole life is falling apart. What do I do?</p>
<p>Can you transfer to a school with a lower net price?</p>
<p>I’m going to CU Boulder OOS so of course it’s expensive, but I was hoping to get financial aid from the university, and they didn’t give me any except for loans that don’t even pay half of my education.
I could maybe to back to California and apply to a UC, but I was rejected when I applied initially. I really don’t want to go to a CSU or a community college, I’m going to a good public school right now and I was hoping to transfer to a good private school on the east coast after freshman or sophomore year, but now I feel like everything is ruined.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, digging yourself into deep debt at CU Boulder limits your options. In retrospect, you should have gone to a CC or CSU instead of CU Boulder with no non-loan financial aid.</p>
<p>It is likely that your best option is to transfer to a California CC, then transfer to a UC or CSU or private school with good financial aid as a junior.</p>
<p>You’re a Calf resident who went ahead and enrolled at a pricey school EVEN THOUGH you weren’t given the aid…and now you’re being told that you have to withdraw because you owe money.</p>
<p>Now, you’re looking at MORE unaffordable schools to transfer to.</p>
<p>I’ve been looking at some schools schools - anybody think that I would have a chance at transferring to Fordham or Rutgers?</p>
<p>Rutgers is an OOS public. Its’ not going to give aid either.</p>
<p>Fordham doesn’t give great aid either.</p>
<p>Have you used the NPCs on schools’ websites? If not, do so.</p>
<p>Very likely you’re going to have to go to a Calif CC and then transfer after soph year.</p>
<p>You didn’t have the money; getting yourself into huge amounts of debt was not ideal. I agree that you’ll probably have to transfer to a CC and transfer.</p>
<p>The circle of friends I grew up with often did not have the money for expensive college either.
We either went into the military or local community college.
Those options are still available to you.
Good luck.</p>
<p>Damn, I guess you guys are right.
I really just want to learn though, and get a good job. It sucks that this happened. Thanks for your guys input though, I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>revelc, it sounds like you already see the light and will head back to California. I want to assure you that you can still learn and get a good job even at the CSUs and the CC/UC route. You will be fine. :)</p>
<p>Revelc…you will be able to learn and get a good job when attending an affordable college. Here is your current issue. You will need to pay the bill formTHIS term in full, or UC Boulder will not release your transcript. So get that bill paid.</p>
<p>Once it’s paid, apply to a California community college. Complete,your first two years there, and then finish your bachelors degree at a Cal state or UC…whichever is affordable,when the time comes.</p>
<p>Do NOT enroll at any other colleges that give you insufficient financial aid, or where you cannot afford the costs.</p>
<p>There are no money trees growing anywhere…or tuition fairies.</p>
<p>ETA…on your chances threads, you claim you just don’t “feel it” at UC Boulder. And you are proposing looking at more UNAFFORDABLE colleges. You would be OOS for Rutgers, and Fordham is mighty costly. </p>
<p>So…what is the truth? Are you looking to transfer because of the costs, or because you just don’t like UC Boulder?</p>
<p>Does the student have to have the Boulder bill completely paid for before starting at a CC? I realize a transcript won’t come until that happens, but can s/he start at a CC while paying off that bill?</p>
<p>Besides…if the student withdraws now, there won’t be a worthwhile transcript anyway. I’m guessing that Boulder wants you to withdraw NOW, so you won’t have a debt to them. </p>
<p>Were you given a Pell Grant for this semester?</p>
<p>RevelC…what is Boulder saying about how much you’ll owe IF you withdraw NOW? Find out! </p>
<p>To me, it would seem odd if Boulder said, “you must withdraw NOW, but you still owe for the entire semester.” that hardly seems fair, but maybe that’s how it works. </p>
<p>Anyway, Calif has excellent CCs. You can learn at those schools. </p>
<p>*I did everything I was supposed to. *</p>
<p>NO, you didn’t. You didn’t make sure that your costs were covered before you traipsed across the country and enrolled in an unaffordable school. This was not much different from driving off in a new car that you had no means to pay for.</p>
<p>Tip: Before you jump into anything in the future, be sure to have all your i’s dotted and t’s crossed. Your parents never should have let you go to Boulder when you didn’t have your costs covered…which was very apparent long before classes started. I know that sometimes kids think, “If I want something bad enough I can make it happen.” That’s just not true in many (pricey) cases.</p>
<p>According to the CU website, the last date for withdrawing without paying full tuition was Sept 25th. So it is likely the OP will owe the full tuition unless he can provide a compelling reason why they would provide a partial refund. He will not be able to register for spring classes of course.</p>
<p>How did you plan to pay the bill when you moved there? Federal loans won’t cover even most Instate 4 year school’s tuition, let alone OOS.</p>
<p>I think if a school is going to require full tuition payment, then they shouldn’t require the student withdraw. lol </p>
<p>I think the student should contact the school and ask if they’ll owe for the whole semester or if just a partial amount.</p>
<p>I, too, wonder how the student (and parents!!) thought that the student would pay for the cost w/o an adequate aid pkg. You’d have thought that the parents would have told the student not to go w/o having funding.</p>
<p>I have seen this happen with several students. Their parents worked their ways through school (usually CC), and they expect their kids to just do the same. The difference is that wage/college cost for college aged kids today are in no way comparable to the wage/college cost ratios many parents worked with 20-30 years ago. I don’t know what this student’s situation is, but I think there are a lot of parents who think, “I worked my way through college, so my kid can, too.” I don’t know any kids who are able to work their ways through school any more. A lot has changed with skyrocketing tuitions/fees in the past few decades. A lot of parents have no idea.</p>
<p>From reading the original post, I’m not sure the school is saying he has to withdraw now. My guess is that he cannot enroll for the next semester.</p>
<p>I don’t know of any school that would let a student withdraw this late in the semester and not have to pay full tuition. Admittedly I am not familiar with a whole lot of schools, but the ones I am familiar with have a fairly narrow time frame in which a student can drop and get a full or partial refund (my daughter’s school allowed a week for a full refund and 2 weeks for a 50% refund). Which is reasonable from their point of view as it is too late for someone else to take that spot in the class.</p>
<p>I know that some parents do think that a student can work their way thru college, but when the “amount owed” is likely $20k+ per year (after student loans), I can’t imagine that most parents would think that a student could earn that much WHILE going to college.</p>
<p>If your parent will not pay but can, I see no reason not to work on being declared independent. I have a friend who had the same situation, and it was some work to get declared independent, but as you state, she would have had to drop out of college.</p>
<p>Note that in her case, her parents threw her out of the house, made her room into a guest room and gave her 24 hours to move. If your situation is still hunky dory with your mom, you live there, she feeds you, she clothes you, that would be an issue with being declared independent.</p>
<p>It is too late to get any refund for this term. That being the case, the student is going to be required to pay for this term, and should do the best he can to complete the courses with the best possible grades. He needs to reconcile his bills at UC Boulder…and move on to a more affordable option.</p>
<p>If he is transferring to any college, he will be required to submit his transcript. And since he will have completed a semester, he would be transferring.</p>
<p>I totally agree, M2CK. It’s crazy. But I have heard of two cases of this very situation this year. And, where are the GC’s? Or the university? DSs college was very communicative this summer (starting in June) wanting to know where the outside scholarships were and what DSs backup plan was if they didn’t arrive. Allowing a student owing 10s of thousands of dollars to enroll and remain in school this long without having a sit-down, face-to-face meeting (or two) to find out what the situation was and whether it was viable seems akin to highway robbery to me. It’s one thing not to allow students to just decide to go home in November and not owe a dime. In my mind, it’s a completely different situation to allow a student who is not financially viable to remain in class past the deadline, then demand the money that was obviously not going to materialize. I hope we don’t have the full story here. Otherwise, I think it reflects poorly on ALL of the parties involved, especially the university.</p>
<p>IF the student is going to owe for this semester, then she should be allowed to finish the semester. </p>
<p>I wonder if she signed up for the monthly paynment plan in order to delay the inevitable.</p>