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What Can I Do If I Have To Quit University Due To Financial Problems?

Feb 9th, 2010 by dilantha

i am attending florida state university going for chemical engineering. i just transferred this year from a college and am taking 3 classes. when i came here to this new city i was hoping to get a job and some help from my parents to pay the rent and get by with food, but that didn’t happen. i am in half of my semester doing great in my classes, but i dont have the financial stability to survive and stay in school. it kinda frustrates me that i have to leave and quit school like this because some financial stability that i dont have even tho i got some pell grant and loans. what i have to do to leave school, do i have to call the university and let them know, or just leave it like that? i want to register to another university in my home town. is this going to affect me attending to a new university? what about my loans? any ideas what can i do in this situation

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2 Responses to “What Can I Do If I Have To Quit University Due To Financial Problems?”

  1. Path Less Travelled says:
    2010/02/09 at 15:17

    1) ” what i have to do to leave school, do i have to call the university and let them know?
    a) Yes, call or contact the university, because today no one should think himself wise to operate alone if you can afford yourself help from others. The college you are in should be informed so that they can fortify you and put their thinking caps on to assist you in ways you could not alone conceive of. See? Do not be a hero!
    Your second portion asks … “or just leave it like that?”
    b) No, you do not “leave it like that.” You opened a cycle and with this comes the responsibility to close that cycle in a way that resolves to neutrality, which implies no harm comes to anything or anyone. Because even if a derailment of some sort should occur, your intent will at least have shown that you did all you can for yourself and all others. Do you see?
    2) “i want to register to another university in my home town. is this going to affect me attending to a new university?
    No, there is nothing indicated that would put you in harm’s way while pursuing attendance elsewhere — provided that you at least do in principle what I suggested above. Here is an apt principle to your predicament here: — on crossing a bridge, do not blow it up, because you want to leave it standing so you can get back across it again if found needed to cross later. Furthermore, leave ‘yourself standing’, too — and not on your backside.
    But one thing is equally if not even more important here: you are in good (“great”) academic standing — this is most important as regards transferring. And this is certainly sharp. If this were not the case, however, then your dilemma would be more problematic indeed, much more than a worry over a lack of finances to stay in school. Most students today of working class families have financial drawbacks as regards financing their educations. You are not alone … this is for sure.
    3) “what about my loans? any ideas what can i do in this situation”
    The first response covers this in good measure. However, you have somewhat a catch if you should withdraw from school entirely: your loans would soon come due to begin paying off, as opposed to staying in school in which loans are suspended till the 4 years are completed.
    But I would say this and is what is most important of all: do nothing that will stress your mental and physical health into a grave harm’s way. In that case, money and good grades are of no consequence. Therefore, if you have to leave school, leave it in good academic standing. And if you will have discussed your predicaments with your school’s administrators ahead of time, you will have already insured yourself by your initiative and will be more readily endorsed by the college when your financial and academic transcripts are evaluated by the present school, and the new school you fancy attending.
    Actually, presently, you are doing quite well. ‘Not to worry, even though you would dread having to leave school. So stay the course in ‘doing quite well’ … See? Don’t go and do something rash! You are okay right now — just a little worried. But you have done nothing incorrect thus far. For you, the field of options are still wide open.
    Afterword: you are an electrical engineer candidate: engineers make things work. So, ‘engineer’ your ideal!

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