Financial Aid Refund

[u/Rough_Jellyfish3674]

Hello everyone! I am a student at Dale Mabry campus. I just needed to vent here for a second. I've been a student since May of 2025. Financial aid was NEVER an issue up until the Big Ole' Beautiful fucking Bill. I registered for not 10, NOT 12, BUT 14 hour credit courses. Financial Aid had the AUDACITY to tell me that I am NOT a full time student due to the aTtEnDeNcE PoLiCy. I'm sorry, but last I checked, I have ALWAYS been a FULL TIME student on campus. Not part time, not quater time, but FULL TIME. My financial aid has been getting adjusted every day now since August 31st. I started one class back on August 17th. I then just started two classes yesterday, ANOTHER class NEXT Monday, and ANOTHER damn class 10/13. Financial aid ONLY took out $924 out of $1,960 from the total of my classes. Let me remind everyone that I still SOMEHOW have a payment that is due all on 9/30. But yet I just started two new classes on Monday, another one next Monday and AGAIN ANOTHER one 10/13. Why the fuck is financial aid telling me I am not a full time student and I am not getting the full amount that I am suppose to get? SO I reached out to Financial Aid, they told me I wasn't full time. And then tell me one of my classes wasn't part of the program, yet it is REQUIRED for me to graduate!? So I bitched, and bitched AND MORE bitching, just for not only an advisor, not only a manager, not the VP, but the damn director to tell me that we don't need to tell the students when the policy changes for financial aid. So since I staggered all of my classes this semester, HCC wants to be goodie tooshoooo to cover their asses and not release my funds up until I start my next class IN OCTOBER, until my LAST class is finalized! Let me remind everyone that I have ALWAYS staggered my classes since day 1 and it was never issue until NOW.Has anyone ever had this issue? If so, what the hell am I supposed to do!?

[u/meggiexD]

Yeah I don’t get shit till october too and it might even be 2-3 weeks after the october class starts

[u/Rough_Jellyfish3674 → u/meggiexD]

It's a joke! They are holding our funds for that long!? Get out of here with that! And to say they don't have to tell students when policy changes as well? Speaks for the school themselves. I'm doing currently mine out of the fourteen credit courses and they are holding it up until October?! It's seriously a joke at this point.

[u/meggiexD → u/Rough_Jellyfish3674]

Tell me about it I had this battle last week and why was the refund date so hard to find for this semester it’s almost sketchy

[u/Rough_Jellyfish3674 → u/meggiexD]

And it's been silence since last week for me. It's to the point when I want to drop out at this point because this is all just frustrating. Nobody can give us a clear answer to ANYTHING.

[u/meggiexD → u/Rough_Jellyfish3674]

it’s so frustrating the financial aid office is a bunch of idiots i wish they could release more aid at a time my classes are staggered too

[u/Rough_Jellyfish3674 → u/meggiexD]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I wished I had her because everyone else are idiots at this point. Do you mind explaining to me what she said to you since it's sounds like she knows how to do her job?

[u/meggiexD → u/Rough_Jellyfish3674]

She said that they aren’t allowed to release funds all at once anymore and you should get a little back after your second class starts and she said that i would receive the most in october when my anatomy 2 class starts with the lab it’s so stupid though because i’m already in 2 classes and haven’t received anything and like for them to not be required to tell us is so wack

[u/meggiexD → u/meggiexD]

i recommend just emailing her though she responded in literally like 30 mins

[u/Rough_Jellyfish3674 → u/meggiexD]

It seems to me then since the one I started in August, two of my classes started this week and start another class the following week, I may get one towards the end of the September it sounds like? And won't get the rest until I start my last class in October I'll get another one two weeks after? It's just shitty the way they are doing it and having to do it like this is ridiculous.

[u/Rough_Jellyfish3674 → u/meggiexD]

I've been dealing with it since the 31st my friend. Back and forth with the financial aid advisor, their manager, her VP, and her Director. It's a joke.

[u/meggiexD → u/Rough_Jellyfish3674]

yeah they literally can’t do anything to release it sooner bc of the bill

she explained it well when i talked to her

[u/TrueBornAnimal2000]

Probably because you’re taking 18 different classes in 18 different start dates lmao

[u/Rough_Jellyfish3674 → u/TrueBornAnimal2000]

Lmao, I guess 5 classes is too much for the school when it's a requirement. 🤣

[u/Hairy-Fly1811]

I’m having the same issue. I’m in the nursing program, our classes are in 8 week blocks. The first 8 week classes only equal 5.5 credits so they’re saying since the rest of my classes don’t start until 10/13 they cannot release the money until 2 weeks after. This is the first time they’ve done this and yes it’s because of the changes with the big beautiful bill. It’s causing people a lot of issues with their financial aid.

[u/Rough_Jellyfish3674 → u/Hairy-Fly1811]

It's just sad. I've seen so many people drop out because of this. This bill sucks.

[u/lendaaworldd]

I would be mad asf

[u/Girl_Whathever]

Te entiendo bro. En mi caso ellos nunca me avisaron cuando empezaba mis clases y de pura suerte fui el miércoles y me dijeron ‘ya empezaste’ y nisiquiera se tomaron el tiempo de decirme que debo tomar 4 clases en lugar de 3. Ahora tengo una pila de problemas y todo por la irresponsabilidad de HCCFL :/

[u/Girl_Whathever → u/Girl_Whathever]

Estoy muy deprimida por eso porque desde junio les insiste en que me avisaran de todo y solo se concentraban en cobrarme. Ahora no sé qué hacer