Fees

chomps_x

Ok so I'm a first year student and I'm just wondering what the story is with paying fees? I am eligible for a grant, but I'm just waiting to get my approval letter. Do I have to pay the student levy before I can register for my modules or can I do that afterwards?

Any help is really appreciated

banquo

You gotta pay the levy, and then you have two options as a grant holder:

1. Pay the SCC (2,250), and get it back when your grant comes in.

2. Don't pay the SCC and it'll be covered when the grant comes in. With this option, you can go to lectures and hand in assignments and do all the normal stuff before your grant arrives, but your student card won't work in the library and you can't take out books and stuff. I did this three years in a row, it's completely fine, makes almost no difference to your daily life.

chomps_x

I know I have to pay the levy regardless. But do I pay it now or wait until after I have registered for my course?

Daemos

Pay it now. It saves the hassle and you'll have no trouble getting the money back later in the year. It does take some time to come back though, so don't do it if you immediately need the funds

PictureFrame

banquo wrote: »

You gotta pay the levy, and then you have two options as a grant holder:

1. Pay the SCC (2,250), and get it back when your grant comes in.

2. Don't pay the SCC and it'll be covered when the grant comes in. With this option, you can go to lectures and hand in assignments and do all the normal stuff before your grant arrives, but your student card won't work in the library and you can't take out books and stuff. I did this three years in a row, it's completely fine, makes almost no difference to your daily life.

Do you get your student card if you don't pay the registration fee but wait for the grant? Also can you get a Student travel card if you haven't been fully registered due to waiting for grant payment?

chomps_x

Daemos wrote: »

Pay it now. It saves the hassle and you'll have no trouble getting the money back later in the year. It does take some time to come back though, so don't do it if you immediately need the funds

I'm talking about the €97? You don't get that back later in the year as everyone has to pay it. All I want to know is can you register for your course without paying that levy or do you have to pay it before you register?

mickstupp

In the email I got it says the following:

If you need any assistance with your registration you can either call in person to the Student Records Office or telephone 01-7083813 or e-mail records.office@nuim.ie and we will be happy to help.

For Fee Queries please contact the Fees Office on fees.office@nuim.ie or telephone 01-7084747 / 7083875.

I have no idea how many people from the records or fees offices frequent this particular board, so you might want to send an email to them, or ring them. They're the people with the answers. Or they should be... The information might also be on http://fees.nuim.ie, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Worst case scenario, you show up for registration and they tell you to pay the thing first. No big deal. They're not going to hold it against you until after the 30th of September or something.

As far as I remember, I had three or four weeks where I was allowed to sit in all sorts of different subjects before finalising my choices, so you don't need to worry about not being signed up and registered officially for everything straight away.

chomps_x

mickstupp wrote: »

In the email I got it says the following:



I have no idea how many people from the records or fees offices frequent this particular board, so you might want to send an email to them, or ring them. They're the people with the answers. Or they should be... The information might also be on http://fees.nuim.ie, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Worst case scenario, you show up for registration and they tell you to pay the thing first. No big deal. They're not going to hold it against you until after the 30th of September or something.

As far as I remember, I had three or four weeks where I was allowed to sit in all sorts of different subjects before finalising my choices, so you don't need to worry about not being signed up and registered officially for everything straight away.

That's grand thanks a million I'm waiting for my tax refund before I pay the student levy so once I know it doesn't have to be payed by Friday I'm happy!

LedZeppelin

PictureFrame wrote: »

Do you get your student card if you don't pay the registration fee but wait for the grant? Also can you get a Student travel card if you haven't been fully registered due to waiting for grant payment?

I was a grant holder in first year last year. On registration day I brought the letter saying I had been approved for the grant and I got my student card that day so should be the same this year .

I know from experience that the college wont stamp forms or anything for you unless you're registered but again, I had shown the grant letter so when I needed stamp for the travelcard form there was no issue.
(also I think if you sign up for an AIB student account you get a free travelcard :P there should be reps wandering around campus signing people up this week)

onionballs

im a grant student and wasn't given a student card till i got approved for the grant, which through no fault of my own took till after christmas. that meant no library, gym etc but worst of all when i got the ESF grant i wasn't allowed get the cheque because i had no student card. It is a disgusting policy of NUIM to not give a student card to people waiting for the grant. i paid the €97 on the first day but there was a giant wait in dublin city council in processing grants. tried to go to the welfare department of the student union but after several emails and requests for an appoinment i was ignored every time. obviously they didnt want to touch it with a barge pole. made me quite disheartened with maynooth for a long time last year

chomps_x

onionballs wrote: »

im a grant student and wasn't given a student card till i got approved for the grant, which through no fault of my own took till after christmas. that meant no library, gym etc but worst of all when i got the ESF grant i wasn't allowed get the cheque because i had no student card. It is a disgusting policy of NUIM to not give a student card to people waiting for the grant. i paid the €97 on the first day but there was a giant wait in dublin city council in processing grants. tried to go to the welfare department of the student union but after several emails and requests for an appoinment i was ignored every time. obviously they didnt want to touch it with a barge pole. made me quite disheartened with maynooth for a long time last year

You can't get the ESF grant until you have a student card? :eek: That's ridiculous! I thought you got a student card but it wasn't activated... As in you couldn't swipe it or something like that. It's an extra tenner a week on the bus if I don't have a student card :mad: Grrrrrr

Novella

I didn't get my student card yesterday 'cause my grant hasn't been approved, so you will have to wait for a letter about your grant before you'll get your card.

chomps_x

Novella wrote: »

I didn't get my student card yesterday 'cause my grant hasn't been approved, so you will have to wait for a letter about your grant before you'll get your card.

Did you bring in the letter saying you are provisionally approved?

Novella

chomps_x wrote: »

Did you bring in the letter saying you are provisionally approved?

Yeah, they said it wasn't what they needed, they'd need to see a letter that said it was fully approved so to bring that to them when I get it and they'll give me my card then.

chomps_x

Novella wrote: »

Yeah, they said it wasn't what they needed, they'd need to see a letter that said it was fully approved so to bring that to them when I get it and they'll give me my card then.

Ah I thought that would of worked The SUSI people better hurry up! I wanna start pumping the guns in the gym asap :P

Novella

chomps_x wrote: »

Ah I thought that would of worked The SUSI people better hurry up! I wanna start pumping the guns in the gym asap :P

And I wanna go to the cinema for cheaper! :pac:

onionballs

the gym people will probably let you in. you cant take books out of the library, which is a **** when the essays start coming in. i couldnt afford to buy any books as i have a little baby so i had to photocopy all the stuff i needed in the library. you cant reserve the books though because of no card so you need to be fast. As i said its a disgusting policy i know UCC or UCD dont do. I was sitting in classes discussing equality and felt there is **** all in maynooth. they are all for equality until it effects them. Even though they like to promote themselves as the mature student friendly college. I had no heating oil for a month in my house and a 3 month old baby when i got that ESF grant and then was told i couldnt have it because they wouldnt give me a student card untill Dublin city Council processed my grant. anyway sorry for ranting but this upset me so much last year.

Seren_

That's ridiculous onionballs!! I really think that people should be given their student card once they pay the levy (or before that even). It's extremely unfair as some councils take FOREVER to process grant applications which leaves people unable to use important services through no fault of their own. You think they'd have allowed you to use your passport or something as ID for the ESF grant.

onionballs

i got it eventually after a member of staff fought my corner. the most upsetting thing for me was getting ignored by the student union when i wanted help with this policy. i thought that was what they were there for. didnt want to touch this subject though. at the time i was going over to there office desperately looking for help they were off doing some stunt and having photo ops with some tds office in kildare. even a reply to one of my messages would have been something. just very disheartening

Thwip!

Novella wrote: »

And I wanna go to the cinema for cheaper! :pac:

you also get a 10 percent discount in Golden Discs in Manor Mills

Cleaned up with that today

mickstupp

Wait, do you only need your student card for that? Seeing as they're in Maynooth? Or do they insist on that awful travel card crap?

Thwip!

mickstupp wrote: »

Wait, do you only need your student card for that? Seeing as they're in Maynooth? Or do they insist on that awful travel card crap?

for the discount in GD? student card

putupon

I am in the same situation as chomps.
I am still in shock. It seems like it will be impossible to write up essays and study for exams while not being able to take out books. I commute and have a baby on the way. To be clearly discriminated against because of the way my fees are being paid to the college and then have to sit through a lecture about how Maynooth is pro equality and anti discriminatory. Maynooth sucks! :mad: Seriously thinking about dropping out already.

Thwip!

putupon wrote: »

I am in the same situation as chomps.
I am still in shock. It seems like it will be impossible to write up essays and study for exams while not being able to take out books. I commute and have a baby on the way. To be clearly discriminated against because of the way my fees are being paid to the college and then have to sit through a lecture about how Maynooth is pro equality and anti discriminatory. Maynooth sucks! :mad: Seriously thinking about dropping out already.

if nothing else, congrats on the upcoming bambino