Fucking Front Range Community College

[Street_Kings]

Has anyone ever gotten a refund for a semester?

I started to sign up for online courses last semester. It ended up being way more than i expected/could afford at the time, so a week before classes started I game them a call and asked what I needed to do to cancel out. They told me if I hadn't paid by the time classes started they would drop me. Cool, ignored it, never logged on, never made a payment so I assumed I was auto-dropped. Their little handbook thingie also said enrollment isn't ofically complete until I pay, so I figured all was well.

Last week I got a letter saying I owe them full tuition for last semester. WTF?

When I called them back, they said I needed to talk to an advisor, and keep bouncing me around from extension to extension. I left 7 or 8 voicemails and have not gotten a call back, and have yet to get through to a person besides the lady that answers the phones at the front desk of the cashier's department.

Does anyone know what I should do in this situation? Or has anyone dealt with FRCC's cashier's department and know how I should go about this?

[marcrx5]

I had a similar thing happen at Metro last semester. I talked to people in there cashiers office, as well as other, and tried to appeal it, but when it comes down to it, when you sign up for a class there is a screen that states you are agreeing to pay them. I was even willing to contact the instructor of the class and have him write a letter stating that I never attended the class, but they told me it still wouldn't change it. If it comes down to it, I think you can claim a NC, and retake the class within a year at no additional cost. You might check this route if nothing else works. Unfortunately for me, I didn't think of this in time so I had to pay for nothing. You'd still have to pay for it now, but at least you wouldn't be throwing money away like I did.

[Street_Kings]

NC? What's that?

i'm planning to retake the classes this summer, so i really don't care if they just put me in the same classes again.

[Mario]

NC is No Credit. It's not an F, it doesn't count on your transcript.

[HondasTrail]

I started to sign up for online courses last semester. It ended up being way more than i expected/could afford at the time

This really doesn't have anything to do with your current problem, but have you signed up for the COF stipend? Did you fill out a FAFSA packet? What about student loans?

These are all relatively easy to get if you signed up for the SSA, and between the COF Stipend and Financial Aid I haven't payed a single dime for School or books. In fact I still end up getting money back from Financial aid. I'm not trying to be an asshole or put up a brag fest here, just trying to put some info out that may be useful to you. :drink:

[Street_Kings]

I got COF, it's required, didn't do fafsa, have no idea why i didn't i should have.

Anyway, just got a call back from the advisors, they set up an appeal hearing for me, he said most likely what will happen will they will make me pay the $1800, and give me a free semester next semester, which is all i really wanted anyway.