A New College and New Tuition Reqs

[unkown1961]

With Fall payment due 8/21, I realized that with my youngest I'm on my third college and third way of dealing with late AFROTC payments. This is a large private university with a good-sized detachment but so far the people I've talked to in Fin Aid, Cashier, and one other department almost sound like ROTC must be a new program. The best response I have yet is to pay what I expect to owe (Type 2 scholarship) and then deal with reversing the late fees after AFROTC pays up.
I've liked MIT the best so far, they just told me not to worry and that they knew who was ROTC and that the payments would be late. Oh well, onward and upward.

 

[IrishBrewer]

You might want to tell them that virtually no other University does it like that. Most know Uncle Sam has the best credit rating of any of their clients. We get invoices from our daughter's college but other than that, they don't hound her about it because they know she's on a full tuition ROTC scholarship. I think that for the most part, the schools make out really well on the ROTC students because they are getting 100% of tuition paid and the average non-ROTC student has a sizeable amount of financial aid funded by the school. So, it is in their interests not to turn off prospective ROTC students with burdensome financial policies that are really no benefit to either party. I mean, are they really going to make a ton of interest on holding your money for a couple months? The answer is "no".

 

[unkown1961]

You might want to tell them that virtually no other University does it like that. Most know Uncle Sam has the best credit rating of any of their clients. We get invoices from our daughter's college but other than that, they don't hound her about it because they know she's on a full tuition ROTC scholarship. I think that for the most part, the schools make out really well on the ROTC students because they are getting 100% of tuition paid and the average non-ROTC student has a sizeable amount of financial aid funded by the school. So, it is in their interests not to turn off prospective ROTC students with burdensome financial policies that are really no benefit to either party. I mean, are they really going to make a ton of interest on holding your money for a couple months? The answer is "no".

I've thought the same thing. But it is surprising to speak with someone in Finacial Aid or the Cashier's office and have them react like ROTC is this new program they've never dealt with before.

 

[ProudDad17]

Not sure if its a university thing or NROTC thing, but every semester I get a billing notice and when I log in, the system shows $0 due. By the time I get the notice, it already shows the NROTC credit and I smile and have a drink.