mable.syrup
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At the college I attend they have it set-up this way:
2 weeks before classes start you are able to access your financial aid in the bookstore at college to buy their way overpriced textbooks and school supplies. You cannot transfer the money out or anything- you can only use it in the bookstore- there is no other way to have access to it.
then 3 weeks after the semester has started, they issue checks with your financial aid refunds.
This is really irritating me, and I am wondering if ALL colleges do this? I am so sick of being forced to purchase from their bookstore- I'm a single mom and don't make enough to buy my supplies/textbooks out of my own pocket and just wait for my refund.. and by the time we get the refund it's 3 weeks into the semester- far too long to go without a textbook (I could go to other bookstores in the area where their prices are right around 50% less).
This is very frustrating to me! For example for my summer classes- they are short- 7 week classes, and we don't get our refund checks until 1/2 way through the session!
Maybe that's what it is- something that community college's do, because it is a community college. And yes, I know for a fact that is what they do- it's not something that is only happening to me.
2 weeks before classes start you are able to access your financial aid in the bookstore at college to buy their way overpriced textbooks and school supplies. You cannot transfer the money out or anything- you can only use it in the bookstore- there is no other way to have access to it.
then 3 weeks after the semester has started, they issue checks with your financial aid refunds.
This is really irritating me, and I am wondering if ALL colleges do this? I am so sick of being forced to purchase from their bookstore- I'm a single mom and don't make enough to buy my supplies/textbooks out of my own pocket and just wait for my refund.. and by the time we get the refund it's 3 weeks into the semester- far too long to go without a textbook (I could go to other bookstores in the area where their prices are right around 50% less).
This is very frustrating to me! For example for my summer classes- they are short- 7 week classes, and we don't get our refund checks until 1/2 way through the session!
Maybe that's what it is- something that community college's do, because it is a community college. And yes, I know for a fact that is what they do- it's not something that is only happening to me.