Enemy of Entropy

Stoopid School!

4 April 2008, 4:39 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under College, Rant.

I just found out that DeVry didn’t “pack­age” my finan­cial aid for this semes­ter. Huh? I reg­is­tered the day reg­is­tra­tion opened, or nearly so, as I recall. I wasn’t sched­uled to grad­u­ate. I did every­thing I’m sup­posed to do, in fact. Some­body there just dropped the ball.

Why isn’t that sort of thing auto­mated so that doesn’t hap­pen? It isn’t as if the place spe­cial­ized in, oh, tech­ni­cal degrees or any­thing like that, right?

Then they inform me that because of their mis­take, my stu­dent loans are also screwed up, and I’m going to end up owing them over $4k for the semes­ter! What?!

Yes, I’m fight­ing this. That school has screwed up some­thing every sin­gle semes­ter I’ve attended it! Unfor­tu­nately, so did SPSU. Is this just a given with col­leges? They only hire the incom­pe­tent, or they don’t honor com­pe­tence, or what? I know that schools usu­ally pay less than other employ­ers, so maybe they can’t com­pete and don’t care to try?

For your sakes, I will not upload a record­ing of the bel­low of inar­tic­u­late rage this crap pro­voked. I think it would have bro­ken my micro­phone, anyway.

2 Comments »

  1. avatar HopeEvey. 6 April 2008, 10:47 am

    I think it’s a com­bi­na­tion of lit­tle incen­tive to com­pe­tence in finan­cial aid offices, and pri­vate indus­try pays better.

    ARG!!! Finan­cial aid is mad­den­ing. That’s one of the advan­tages on attend­ing in-​​person, I think. When you phys­i­cally walk into the office, folks sud­denly real­ize you’re a human being — at least they did at UNCG — and things got solved. Maybe it would help to bring up ADA? That kind of thing often get bureau­cra­cies mov­ing, too.

  2. avatar cyn. 6 April 2008, 6:06 pm

    I attended classes in per­son dur­ing my first semes­ter at DeVry, and the whole time I was at SPSU. I spent a LOT of time in var­i­ous offices try­ing to get things fixed. I got to know every full-​​time employee in the finan­cial aid depart­ment at SPSU!

    I’ve used the ADA stick in the past, but I don’t see how it could help this time. I think I may have to con­tact the cor­po­rate president’s office again. They’re in Illi­nois or Michi­gan or some­where (can’t remem­ber right now), so I can’t just walk in phys­i­cally – but I know how to fax, email, and phone until I force an answer.

    It just takes too dan­ged much energy!

 

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