UCD wtf?

Riamfada

So i take a half day and come home to a letter from the Fees office. Blah Blah Overdue by 1500 pay Now... blah blah . They want me to pay 4200 a year to attend arts simply bacause i spent one year in another 3rd level instituiton and I dot qualify for free fees? Where the hell am i going to get that much money? And not one person from UCD told me about this . As far as I was concerned my fees were 835 like everyone else. WTF? €12000 for Arts?

irlrobins

Well thats def the norm. You only get free fees once for each year u do. Regardless of where u were before. I transferred from one course to another. Because i had done years 1 to 3 already, i had to pay fees for years 1 to 3 in my new course before getting free fees for year 4.

Tekken5isalive

Vainglory would be the person to talk to, or if she is busy, go talk to the educational officer....

Anyway,

If the governement paid your tuition for first year, then you either repeat first year or go to a different instituition and do first year again, they won't pay for this year. however, if you pay yourself, and you complete 1st year and enter 2nd year, the goverenment will start paying your fees again provided this is your first 2nd year if you get me.

I'm surprised it's taken you this long to realise this and secondly for them to catch you. i know a few people that got away with this. did 1/2 years in a small IT, drop out, reapply to a uni a few years later and don't get stung for tuition.

ah well.

Riamfada

I was in griffith and I paid my fees for the first two years

beanyb

If you were in Griffith it should be different then since that's a private college. I could be wrong though.

Jonny Arson

Since you paid fees in your first two years of your previous course in a private institution you should be entitled to free fees.

This screams of UCD chancing their arm here. Go to them in person and tell them of your previous course details.

BKtje

i had to pay 5800 for science for this year.
I knew about it tho and was expecting it.
Im quite poor now tho

rainbow kirby

4200 for me... because I've done 2nd science before 2 years ago. (But on the good side, because I just about passed maths the last time (in time-honoured fashion, at the repeats), I'll get into honours 3rd year on passing 8 units of CS this year )

GO TEAM POVERTY!!

orangerooster

2,020 here not as bad granted but I'm still on a very fast train to brokesville!. If you paid your own private fees last year I'm sure that you are somehow entitled to free fees.

besty

jesus im fookin skint as it is just paying the standard 835. god help any of you having to pay some of those amount.

Funky

€2600 half fees for the win