Excelsior's Financial Aid Department Sucks

[joel66]

If you're looking for maximizing your financial aid then I would suggest taking a lot of your classes at your local community college, or state college with low tuition.

Example, for full time I qualified for up to 1200 to 1400 per semester. At Excelsior if I took 6 units then approx 600 dollars was credited toward 1800 of tuition for 1200 remaining balance. I decided to take some online classes at my local college for 6 units and had enough money to pay for my classes, books, and other misc fees. The school would send me two separate checks like 300 around the 3rd week into the semester, and another check half way though.

I noticed when going to local community college or checking out TUI or Excelsior, the amount is the same. For me, I thought it was better to use financial aid at my local school.

In regards to coupons for books? I never buy books at the school. Even in my local school and many other schools the books are way over priced. Toward the last year of school with Excelsior, I started getting most of my books from chegg or used books from amazon.