Ok my boyfriend seems to think DeVry is ripping me off and I'm beginning to think so too.

I've been attending classes online since March 2008.

In my second semester, I was sent a refund check, which 2 weeks later I was told I had to send back (after spending most of it) because online students are eligible to get refunds from NY TAP grants.

I never paid this back so I got cut back to part time. Everything was going good up until this past semester.

I received an email stating I needed to reapply for a fellowship that I never applied for in the first place. I called the school and I found out I was receiving another girls' fellowship award (same name) for the past 2 semesters.

I spoke with the first guy and they said they would write it off as their mistake.

Within a few weeks I'm receiving a phone call stating I owe just about $7000 because of their mistake. They got me 2 loans to cover this but I don't understand why I have to pay back something that I had no control over. Then I got sent a check for $1600 and same thing as before, got told to send it back.

After I get it cashed and go to pay it they say I only owe $456.. so I pay it and spend the rest to fix my car. This last week I received an email that I'd be receiving a check for $2500.. this time I actually called the school and found out that I do have to send it back.

NOW...

I've got the check and today there was another $1200 charged to my account for the rest of the check I didn't send back a few weeks ago.

I'm up to $12,000 just in loans (I have 2 grants as well) and I'm even half way done with my degree.


I'm still currently enrolled into a class, which by the looks of it will be my last because there's no way for me to come up with $1200 by July 3rd.


Any suggestions or help with this would appreciated. I'm not speaking with anyone from the college until next week and I'd really like some insight to what I should do.

Think of it this way if they hadn't sent you the money you would not have had it to spend anyway. You received it, you benefited from it.
If it was something that was their fault that you did not benefit from then N0 you shouldn't have to pay it back.
I think they need to get a third party go over and see what mistakes were their fault that you should not have to pay back.

All these charges to my account and errors have been due to that fellowship I was getting that I wasn't suppose to. I'm still going to have to pay it back because they got loans to cover the charges instead of grants.

... I guess it really doesn't matter.. there's no way I can come up with $1200 before July 1st. I can't register for summer classes until I have a $0 balance on my account.

It just makes me mad... I've been enrolled since March 2008... I've gotten A's in all my classes except one (a B) and I still have a 4.0 GPA and I'm getting screwed over to the point where I can't continue. I have all these stupid loans to pay and no degree.. I had 41 out of 126 credits towards my bachelors... I switched to an associated for this coming semester which is only 64 credits so I was so close...

They are a very good school, and no, honestly you owe the money, you never got a fellowship, you should have got the first person that told you they would cover it, to put it in writing right then

But the issue is, if you did not apply you should have known you owed the additional money.

The school is worth the investment to most people, and you basically owe it and should be paying it or getting the other grants and loans for the school

Sorry but it just makes no sense to me. I still think they royally screwed up somewhere... my refunds were no bigger when I had the fellowship on my account so I don't know where the money I owe is coming from. I usually only got between $800 and $1500 for each semester... the checks for the 2 semesters that I had the fellowship were relatively low... $455 and $1265 and I still had 6 loans and 2 grants covering some of it... it just doesn't add up.


I guess I was stupid to believe them when they told me I'd have no out of pocket expenses until after I graduated.