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Dropping Out, Avoiding Fees?

  • 04-10-2011 2:28am
    #1
    ima_goldfish!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I'm a first year in UL and just started language literature and film in september but really feel it was the wrong course choice. Im thinking of dropping out but i dont know if i should finish the first year or drop out now before it affects the maintenance grant? Also is there anyway i could not have to pay the 2000e registration fee for this year does anyone know? Apparently if your going to drop out, in order to not be liable for the fees you have to leave before the 23rd of September, it's a week after the deadline, so is there any leeway on that?
    any advice appreciated!:)


Comments

  • #2
    Mr. Loverman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Mr. Loverman


    You need to talk to your college.

    This is a serious decision so do not make it based on the advice of strangers on the internet!


  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    ima_goldfish! wrote: »
    Hi,

    I'm a first year in UL and just started language literature and film in september but really feel it was the wrong course choice. Im thinking of dropping out but i dont know if i should finish the first year or drop out now before it affects the maintenance grant? Also is there anyway i could not have to pay the 2000e registration fee for this year does anyone know? Apparently if your going to drop out, in order to not be liable for the fees you have to leave before the 23rd of September, it's a week after the deadline, so is there any leeway on that?
    any advice appreciated!:)

    You need to talk to the college - if you wait and then drop out it could mean you won't get free fees or a grant for the first year of a different course

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    ima_goldfish!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭ima_goldfish!


    @ Mango salsa, I know that is what's causing the confusion :(
    According to the college if I leave now,although my grant wont be affected,I still have to pay them the 2000e registration fee (which I dont have).But I only missed the deadline by about a week,that's why Im posting to see if this has happened to anyone else and if they still had to pay the 2000e,and if so is it better just to finish first year and then change?


  • #5
    Frowzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Frowzy


    ima_goldfish! wrote: »
    @ Mango salsa, I know that is what's causing the confusion :(
    According to the college if I leave now,although my grant wont be affected,I still have to pay them the 2000e registration fee (which I dont have).But I only missed the deadline by about a week,that's why Im posting to see if this has happened to anyone else and if they still had to pay the 2000e,and if so is it better just to finish first year and then change?

    I work in an IOT, we wouldn't take the reg fee if you drop out before November. Not sure if it's different for UNI!

    If you complete the year then you will def have to pay full fees next year and if you take your grant for the year then you may not get it next year.....

    It's complicated but the only way you might get around paying fees is if you register on a higher level course, eg if you're doing level 7 this year and re reg for level 8 next year.


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