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Am I legally obliged to pay fees after withdrawing?

  • 12-02-2016 5:44pm
    #1
    PikingPiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭


    I withdrew from my course on the first day of second semester. I later read that the cutoff for withdrawals was a couple days beforehand. I should've known this given I had planned to withdraw, but I left it to last minute. Anyway, the college sent me an email reminding me I owe them €700 for the second installment of fees. I paid 60% in first semester. I don't have money to pay them with. Also I'm literally paying them €700 for nothing since I haven't attended any lectures for Sem2 or event stepped foot on the college grounds.

    Also I wasn't receiving a grant.

    Am I legally obliged to pay them? Could me not paying them affect other college applications?


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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Yes, if you miss the withdrawal date you're liable for all the fees. The colleges need to allocate resources and plan, they cannot do this if a chunk of their funding is up in the air until 3/4 through the academic year.

    The debt won't block applications to any other colleges, but they'll probably sell it to a debt collector so you'll have them hounding you.


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