Excelsior's Financial Aid Department Sucks

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This is a rant about Excelsior and I hope the faculty reads this board.

- Excelsior doesn't give out book vouchers to help it's students.

(If you keep calling enough people; they'll, eventually, tell you to email this one guy and you will have to explain why you need a book voucher. Uhhhmmm, the federal government says I qualify for the maximum financial aid, isn't that a good enough explanation? Nope, you have to get personal and explain your situation deeper to this one guy!)

- Last financial aid year, you had to wait a month after school starts to get a refund check. Now this aid year it is 2 months!:mad: I emailed them and they said it's to stop students from withdrawing early, but this problem has to be a small fraction of the honest students that receive aid. So their philosophy is to punish the majority of honest students because of the actions of a few.

Why am I pissed? I qualify for the maximum aid and I am a pre-med student (Sciences done at brick and mortar college). Grades are important to medical schools and working full-time will make them drop. I'm around a 3.85 gpa now. However, I will be forced to transfer from part-time to full-time because of no book vouchers and the 2 month delay on refund checks so I can pay the bills.

State schools in Alabama and Georgia, that I've attended try their best to disburse aid within 2 weeks after classes start. Excelsior's Financial Aid Department doesn't care about you.

call me harsh, but school ain't free...and they all have policies. if u don't like it.. you can leave it. other schools may have better fin-aid policies but less understandable acceptance of credits.