I'm sure most of you have had similar dealings, but seriously, why are universities plagued with incompetency? Everyone I talk to says the same thing. My graduate school is making me a nervous wreck about once a week and I'm not even there yet!
After filing my financial aid paperwork back in Feb when I got accepted, I kept waiting for an award letter that never came. Finally in June (when they due out) I called and they told me they had me under two different SSNs. Like, how does that even happen? And the one they'd be referencing the past few months was the one that didn't show my paperwork. So, by this point I was pretty much guaranteed not to get any grants since they'd all been given out months ago. But whatever.
Then today, I get my first tuition bill that showed a balance of $2000 something due August 1, after some of my loans were credited. Still, I have other loans not shown on the bill that should cover this cost. So a little panicked because I'm on my own and do not have $2000, I called the school to ask about my loan status. Long story short, one of my loans is still being processed and when it goes through, I should be able to just ignore the bill (although a woman from the registrar's office told me financial aid shouldn't be telling me that... um, what?) Oh, and also my bill is wrong? I only owe $1000.
So... now I'm waiting until my loan goes through and hopefully everything turns out ok. But seriously, everytime I ask a question, I get a different answer and they're constantly messing stuff up - like when they had me in the system as part-time even though I'm registered full-time.
Is anyone else just baffled by the idiocy of our institutions of higher learning sometimes?