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jamesfitch
January 12, 2010
FINANCIAL HOLD ON TRANSCRIPTS
I went to ECPI while active duty military. I was given 6months off to go to school after re-enlistment, so I chose ECPI because I had friends going there plus it was very close to my house. Well 6 months came and went, I had finished classes and wnet to the admissions office to dis-enroll myself. They said it was all taken care of and thanked me for coming in. Well fast forward 8 years later I want to use my g.i. bill to go to school and when I go to enroll they ask me for my transcripts from all my previous colleges and what happens? ECPI says I owe 12, 000 dollars because I dropped outof school so I have to pay for the rest of the program, whether I attended or not I have to pay for the rest of the school program I had initially signed up for. I have seen where they have many many lawsuits against them for various reasons. I ask thenm to send me a copy of what i owed as opposed to what was paid for by financial aid, they wouldn't or actually could not do it.
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November 10, 2008
Financial Aid
I began attending classes with ECPI in March of 2008. My financial advisor was Melanie Bacon, who sent me an award letter with my grants, FAFSA, and student loan information. She assured me that I was good to go, because I was very hesitant about attending the program due to the expense. I asked her several questions to make sure my award letter meant that my tuition would be covered, and she insisted that I was good to go. A few weeks went by, and Melanie contacted me to let me know that there was an issue with my Household form regarding the status of my niece, who was listed as someone I supported that lived in the household. Because, my niece's mother had claimed her on her taxes the previous year, I was advised to provide a reason for this. I asked Melanie if we could just take my niece off of the Household form and just proceed with the process. At that time, I filled out the Household form again and emailed it back to her without my niece being listed. We moved forward, and I then started my classes. Two months later I received an email from Melanie stating the there was an issue again with the Household paper and that she had not sent them the new form that I emailed to her, so they had not been paid for any of my books or classes do the financial aid process not being processed. I had filled out all of the papers she requested in a timely fashion, emailed them back to her, and corresponded with her and Heather Savage frequently to make sure there were no discrepensies with my paperwork. They both affirmed before I started classes that I was good to go. I advised Melanie after sending me the email, stating my aid had not gone through, that I no longer wanted to attend ECPI, because I entered into a contract with them assuming my aid had gone through and my classes were covered. I had even informed Heather that I had just given birth to twins and was unemployed, therefore I was chosing to go back to college to further my education, so I could get into a Career. Well I didn't hear from Melanie again once I advised her that I wanted to Withdraw from the program. Then, in the middle of October, I received a bill for $4, 300 due in full by November 1st. By this time, I had already been enrolled in a new college where my FAFSA went through with no problems. I contacted Chris Lapicki and explained the situation to him. He then got together with other faculty at the school, and told me due to the circumstances of the events, they would not charge me the 4300, but only 1, 200. I told him I should not have to be responsible for any of the bill and that I didn't have 1200. He told me that was pretty much my only option. And the 1200 he said was to pay for orientation. How could orientation be 1200, and how can they charge me anything, when it was an error on their part?
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