choosing not to tansfer a course

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Edit: Part of this is also to enforce delinquent accounts. If you don't pay your old school, they won't send a transcript. Your new school won't graduate you without one and you're forced to deal with it. That parking fine from 1995 can still get you...

Yes - they're all helping each other to make sure that someone can't go to School A, take out a bunch of student loans, never pay them back, and then just start over at School B 10 years later.  Nope.  Can't do that.  Once you owe money to a school, they're going to put the word out to all the other schools that you're a deadbeat, and hold that transcript/diploma hostage.

BTW - I'm not saying that this is a bad thing - they need something to hold over you.  But it's a bad thing if you want to try to do it yourself.

For those who aren't in the same boat, you're kind of lumped in with the bad actors.

I think a better thing to do is to take courses through a MOOC instead.  No grade, no student loans, nothing to come back to bite you later.  Prices are usually good too.