03-10-2009, 01:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-10-2009, 01:16 PM by TeeitupTom.)
Not "fishy" at all soupbone. Sorry if my posting this offends you but complaining is a way to make the school accountable so they can make it easier for the next group. Otherwise they could lose business. I think that's why OP started this thread. And I believe you are completely wrong to imply that I said it was not my fault.
Since you seem interested I'll tell you how I figured it out: Before I was admitted I couldn't get an answer as to exact tuition cost and any added fees. Like I knew nothing of the added 100.00 technology fee for online classes and a few other added fees. Maybe the tuition cost and breakdown is on the web site for TE but I searched and could not find it. I didn't know about degree forum at the time or I'd have asked here. Maybe I couldn't find the cost because I don't live in NJ or didn't know enough about who the right people to call were. I couldn't get an answers to my questions.
I had never even heard of TE and had never taken any classes from an OL school. I found about TE from a nurse friend and he told me to be admitted and have a transcript eval costs $300.00. But that turned out to be what they charge nurses not other students. I didn't know this at the time. When I sent in my admission forms with the admission fee I waited and watched my mail because i knew THAT WAS WHEN I'D GET TUITION COST INFORMATION. That's when they sent me the "Fees and Tuition" little booklet. I've only been to B & M schools so I'd never paid an enrollment fee separate from the fee for classes. At my university we would register for classes and the bursar would give you the total amount owed. So once I had the fee booklet I paid their annual enrollment fee. But paying for my 3 classes separate from enrollment fee was new to me. Even with the booklet explaining fees I couldn't understand if the added 100.00 technology fee and other fees were per course or per semester. So I paid the annual enrollment requested in the booklet.
btw: They then sent me a bill saying I owed $35.00 more because of the transaction problem caused when I sent in my admission paperwork with the $300.00 fee charged nurses instead of the $75.00 fee. Apparently not sending in the right admit fee and causing them to refund my admit money and send in the right amount triggered a 35.00 fee. The bursars office said it was because the system saw it as a "NSF". I HAVE NEVER HAD AN NSF. I don't bounce checks. But I paid the 35.00 "NSF fee for the mishap in my admission payment because I didn't feel it was worth arguing over 35.00 and I wouldn't have know who to complain to anyway. I didn't have a name of anyone at the school who could help.
As dumb as it sounds I still couldn't figure out what my 3 classes would cost because the fees booklet isn't specific as to the 100.00 technology fee and some other fee of 40.00. I didn't know if that meant per yr, semester, class or per credit hr. So since I don't have financial aid this is how I figured out what my 3 (9 cr hrs) of classes would total out to be: I registered online when I hit "check-out" shopping basket it gave me the total dollar amount of what I needed to pay for the 3 classes. Including the 100.00 tech fee and the 40.00 fee.
Even then the system wouldn't let me check out so I printed out the computer registration with my exact classes-3 OL courses, exact sections and the mentors I wanted. When I got confirmation of my registration they had switched one OL to a GS and they changed one mentor I requested in another class. They gave me no explanation of why the changes were made. I then went online and found there were still openings in the class I had wanted to do OL but the registrar had put me in the GS version. At that point I didn't care about the mentor change but I called and after finding the right person to talk to I got the GS changed back to the OL course I had requested.
Since you seem interested I'll tell you how I figured it out: Before I was admitted I couldn't get an answer as to exact tuition cost and any added fees. Like I knew nothing of the added 100.00 technology fee for online classes and a few other added fees. Maybe the tuition cost and breakdown is on the web site for TE but I searched and could not find it. I didn't know about degree forum at the time or I'd have asked here. Maybe I couldn't find the cost because I don't live in NJ or didn't know enough about who the right people to call were. I couldn't get an answers to my questions.
I had never even heard of TE and had never taken any classes from an OL school. I found about TE from a nurse friend and he told me to be admitted and have a transcript eval costs $300.00. But that turned out to be what they charge nurses not other students. I didn't know this at the time. When I sent in my admission forms with the admission fee I waited and watched my mail because i knew THAT WAS WHEN I'D GET TUITION COST INFORMATION. That's when they sent me the "Fees and Tuition" little booklet. I've only been to B & M schools so I'd never paid an enrollment fee separate from the fee for classes. At my university we would register for classes and the bursar would give you the total amount owed. So once I had the fee booklet I paid their annual enrollment fee. But paying for my 3 classes separate from enrollment fee was new to me. Even with the booklet explaining fees I couldn't understand if the added 100.00 technology fee and other fees were per course or per semester. So I paid the annual enrollment requested in the booklet.
btw: They then sent me a bill saying I owed $35.00 more because of the transaction problem caused when I sent in my admission paperwork with the $300.00 fee charged nurses instead of the $75.00 fee. Apparently not sending in the right admit fee and causing them to refund my admit money and send in the right amount triggered a 35.00 fee. The bursars office said it was because the system saw it as a "NSF". I HAVE NEVER HAD AN NSF. I don't bounce checks. But I paid the 35.00 "NSF fee for the mishap in my admission payment because I didn't feel it was worth arguing over 35.00 and I wouldn't have know who to complain to anyway. I didn't have a name of anyone at the school who could help.
As dumb as it sounds I still couldn't figure out what my 3 classes would cost because the fees booklet isn't specific as to the 100.00 technology fee and some other fee of 40.00. I didn't know if that meant per yr, semester, class or per credit hr. So since I don't have financial aid this is how I figured out what my 3 (9 cr hrs) of classes would total out to be: I registered online when I hit "check-out" shopping basket it gave me the total dollar amount of what I needed to pay for the 3 classes. Including the 100.00 tech fee and the 40.00 fee.
Even then the system wouldn't let me check out so I printed out the computer registration with my exact classes-3 OL courses, exact sections and the mentors I wanted. When I got confirmation of my registration they had switched one OL to a GS and they changed one mentor I requested in another class. They gave me no explanation of why the changes were made. I then went online and found there were still openings in the class I had wanted to do OL but the registrar had put me in the GS version. At that point I didn't care about the mentor change but I called and after finding the right person to talk to I got the GS changed back to the OL course I had requested.
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