So my parents are making me transfer out of the university because they don’t think I can handle it. They want me to go to the university closer to home & commute from home. I was wondering if I don’t withdrawal from my current university until after the financial aid disbursement day will I still get financial aid from the new university closer to home? Also will I owe my old university money? I plan on going back to the old university away from home in Fall 2016 so I’m just leaving for a semester. Will my financial aid transfer or will I have to pay out of pocket?
You have to apply for financial aid at your new school. The aid from your old school doesn’t transfer to your new school. You would need to submit,the FAFSA ASAP to that new school. Have you applied for admission to the new school? You have to be matriculated in a degree program to get financial aid.
Are you taking a leave of absence from your current school? If so, you need to ask if they even allow courses to,be,taken elsewhere.
If not, you will need to reapply for admission for,the fall.
Also…yoir current school likely has a date by which you MUST withdraw in order to get a full refund. If you miss that date, you will owe the current school money.
PLUS, you cannot be a matriculated student at two,schools,at the same time. So if you have not withdrawn from school one and are still registered for,classes there, you cannot receive financial aid from school two.
Basically my parents are “making” me leave and I don’t want to go, is there anyway I can wait until the last minute where I can’t get a refund on the financial aid? I have not applied to other schools & I have not withdrawn from my old school, let alone fill out the fafsa and all that fun stuff. We are not rich & can’t afford school out of pocket so if financial aid doesn’t work out they will have no choice but to let me stay at my university. It’s more practical anyway because I already have my class schedule for next semester, I’m still moved in…
You are not making any sense.
Until you apply to and are accepted at your new school, you can NOT get financial aid there.
So…if you want financial aid for school number 2, you need to apply to that school for admission as a Degree seeking student. You need to submit your FAFSA to that new school. That new school will award you financial aid if they accept you.
Maybe.
What kind of financial aid are you receiving at your current college? You might not even be eligible for the same types of aid as a transfer student to a new school. Do you have school grants at college one? If so, there is no guarantee you will get those at all at college two.
The only guaranteed aid you would receive is the remainder of your Dorect Loan (so 1/2 of $5500), and the remainder of any Pell grant for which you are eligible (1/2 of the amount of your Pell award)…assuming you are attending full time.
Any school grants from school one would not be awarded to you by school two.
Do you require a parent contribution? If yes, if your parents don’t pay it, you will not be allowed to attend classes. While you may feel that you are winning the battle, you could ultimately lose the war. What would happen if your parents decided that they are not going to pay for college going forward or won’t fill out financial aid forms for next year ? What if they refused to pay for books, transportation, etc? What if they took your car, cancelled your insurance or did other things to prevent you from bein at school the spring semester?
You may end up digging yourself into a hole that you may not be able to dig your way out of. Remember the golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.
Also…why are your parents making this request? We’re your grades not up to snuff?
How much are your parents paying each semester for your current school?
What good does leaving your school for ONE semester???
do your parents realize that if you leave and go elsewhere, that you LIKELY WILL NOT GET the same aid once you return??? Your parents may be wrongly assuming that you’ll get the same good aid when you return in the fall…likely, you will NOT. Then what?
What were your grades for the last semester?
There has to be a good reason why yoir parents are making this request for a transfer. What is it?
My parents are making me transfer because they say that I am immature and that I party excessively. I do party alot , but I got a 4.0 my first semester. They just want me to stay home a semester to learn my lesson a mature a little bit. This didn’t happen until I came home from winter break and my mom got mad at me and she was like “you’re not going back to NAU” (thats the school I go to). They are letting me go back Fall 2016 though. But I honesty feel that’s unnecessary, I realized that I definitely did go overboard last semester and I will surely change.
Another thing is they are not really withdrawing me or doing my financial aid, they are leaving it all up to me. And as a family we aren’t very timely people, we are truly last minute folk. So me not wanting to leave NAU I’m honestly not in a rush to withdraw myself, transfer my financial aid and all that stuff. So I’m just trying to wait until the last minute, because I know that if something goes wrong with the money they will let me stay…I hope. My parents are paying about 5K a semester out of pocket. I got no grants or scholarships, financial aid didn’t give me much but it helped. FAFSA gave me about 9K a semester.
FAFSA didn’t give you a dime. It’s a financial aid application FORM. If you got $9000 as a freshman, what did you get in addition to your Direct loan? I can’t think of federally funded aid that would total $9000 for the semester.
And here is the rub. If you don’t apply for admission to school number two…and get accepted, you won’t get a dime of financial aid from school 2. You need to apply for admission, and apply for financial aid at school 2.
And you can’t get a penny of aid from school 2 while you are still a matriculated student at school 1.
Is there something you don’t understand about this? If you NEED financial aid, you have to apply for it at school 2…which means applying for and getting admitted to school 2 and applying for financial aid at school 2.
And you can’t continue to be a student at school one at the same time.
How did they find out that you’re partying? Maybe, you should tell them it’s too late to transfer to any schools for the coming Spring term.
It probably IS too late to apply as a matriculated student to school number two.
OP, if you having on campus housing for the first year, it would be very difficult to withdraw now.
If you’re in a dorm or an apt, you may be in a contract for the year.
It doesn’t sound like you have applied and been accepted to a spring school, unless your parents are assuming that you can register late at a local CC.
You can register late at a community college…but unless you are pursuing a degree there…and have applied for financial aid, you won’t get it.
OP- if you don’t withdraw officially from your current U (either get an official leave of absence or withdraw) you are going to get a bill for spring semester. How you pay for it is not the university’s problem- it’s your problem. So telling them that you are actually signed up somewhere else (if you manage to matriculate at the second college while still enrolled officially at the first) doesn’t help. They won’t care. They issue a bill, you pay the bill.
You need a sit down with your parents before you incur a semester’s worth of fees at a university you are not attending.
Appeal to your parents to let you stay at current school another semester. Prove to them that you will do better.
The bill for next semester is probably due now and it might be difficult to get everything set up at another school for spring (if you haven’t even applied yet).
Switching for one semester only makes no sense as others explained.
Thank you a lot of you guys have helped me. I do live on campus & I think I am on contract for a year. So I think that is the loophole I have been looking for! Thanks everyone for your help I’ll try to keep everyone updated and see how things go. Worst comes to worst they’ll just make me go to community college for a semester & eat it & pay for the bill at my old U
This is stupid, and I’m doubting what you are saying. Your parents should hit need to pay the bill at your four year college IF you withdraw. You say that finances are a serious consideration…but your parents will pay the bill at school one, and also at school two?
Sorry…that makes NO SENSE in the context of this thread…none.
If your finances are strapped, withdrawing from school one would be the thing to do, even IF you had to pay room board costs for that school. At least your parents wouldn’t be paying tuition twice.
To be honest, this makes very little sense. Very little.
Yes and if you don’t withdraw from school one as far as classes go, wouldn’t you get Fs in the classes and then lose all your financial aid for not meeting Satisfactory Academic Progress and also wreck that perfect GPA?
You all need to sit down and decide what to do. Transferring for one semester to CC makes no sense. Have your parents give you one more chance at your current school for this semester, shape up and then you can stay there. If not you come home.