Argh!
I am so frustrated right now. The financial aid system at WSU stinks. It is very different than what I had to do at Western. For as much as I bitched and moaned about some of the stupid stuff that Western did to me, I never had any problems with my financial aid. Last week, while at Wayne State, I stopped by the financial aid counter to make sure I had done everything I needed to do so that my loans were sure to be dispursed. They guy looked through my stuff, said it was fine and that it should be dispursed either Monday or Tuesday. That was Thursday afternoon. On Friday, I got a letter from nel*net, who is my lender, saying that I hadn’t signed a promissary note. I signed a Master promissary note nearly a month ago. On Tuesday, when my loans still hadn’t been dispursed, I called the 1-800 number to nel*net to check on the status of my loan. They said it had been cancelled by Wayne State the previous Friday. Um, what?
This, of course, led to a humonguous wait on the phone to try and get through to somebody at WS. The girl couldn’t figure out why they would have done it and said she was submitting my claim to the supervisors and somebody would get back to me later. Nobody ever did, so I called back again later that afternoon and the guy I talked to told me that a ton of student’s loans got cancelled for some unknown reason and they were trying to get everything sorted out. They are hoping to have it taken care of by Thursday, Friday at the latest.
This is so annoying. And apparently, next semester, they are switching back to the Direct Loans, so I’m sure everything will get screwed up again in the fall. I don’t know why I’m surprised. It seems like there is always something to jump up and bite me in the ass.
So. Frustrating.
