Student Accounts Part Two

As explained above you have an account at your college whether you know it or not. Also this time of year few students want to think about school beyond the easy A, slam-dunk summer school class they are taking with the really cool TA who doesn’t even take roll.

With all of this as a background Planet College strongly suggests you contact your school’s student accounts office (or Bursar’s Office) to check the status of your account. This is why. In the end of the semester frenzy to just-get-the- heck out of here student’s often overlook really simple but fee-related things. Things like turning in the residence hall key, locker key, library books etc. Now. These simple oversights always result in fees. Key replacement fee, library fee, lab breakage fee, stuff like this. The fees are usually in the range $10 to $50. And. These fees are applied to your student account.

Students are sometimes but not always notified of these fees but students notoriously ignore such notifications.

Ok? So. Here is the totally important point of these two posts. Unpaid fees can affect your ability to register. If you haven’t gotten your Fall classes yet you are probably waiting for your registration date. In case you don't know it some schools will put a block on your registration until the outstanding fees are paid.

Sucks huh? Well what does this tell you? Go on line right now or call the bursar’s office and check you account balances. If there are any outstanding fees make sure they get paid. You don’t want some weenie lab fee interfering with your ability to get the classes you want. So go do that right now.