Drexel University-ACE Program Fall '09

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Hi,

I will be attending Drexel University's ACE program in the Fall of 2009. I just wanted to see if anyone else on here is in that class...and the kind of information they have on financial aid for this program and how they are preparing for the fall.

Thanks!

Andrea

Hi have you guys already secured funding for the school year?

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Born and raised here :)

I sent in the $500 deposit back in November when I was accepted--I'm still waiting to hear about my loan. I've been having problems with AES and PNC.

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yeah, I've been working on my credit for the past 5 months, im trying to wait until it's the highest possible before start submitting loan applications. I guess I'm going to need to do it sometime soon. Can I ask what problems you are having?

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AES sent me a letter the day after I applied for the loan saying that I needed to verify my employment and my co-signers employment. Sent that in the next day and for the next two weeks I heard nothing--and everytime I called the number on the AES letter it said "need employment verification". I called AES and after about 25 minutes on the phone they finally told me that my co-singer needs to send in a letter stating why their job title on the application was different from the pay stub we sent in. So long story short after sending all that in and making sure everything was now correct, they told me that they now just have to wait and hear from Drexel. They told me to call back in a week--so hopefully when I call tomorrow all will be fine :)

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I got a student loan through Wells Fargo. My mom was my cosignor. I was rejected for a couple other loans (including PNC) even with a cosignor. I also was approved with Sallie Mae, but Wells Fargo offered me a better rate.

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I am soooo nervous. I don't have a cosigner.I've heard about a few students who have been approved through PNC without a co-signer. Since paying down my credit down I have seen major improvements in my fico score. I was thinking about trying to hold out for one more month, but I'm starting to think that it may not be the best idea. My job wants a month notice before I leave and I can't give them that unless I know for sure that I will have the money...I need to stop worrying so much and just go for it!

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Has anyone gotten their email address for drexel yet? I spoke to Kelly (Clinical Compliance Coordinator) last week and asked her if I could get them to send me information to another email--she told me that once we start everything will get sent to our drexel email account...but I noticed that some people mentioned that they have their email account. How did you get it?

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I registered for it on the one.drexel.edu site- IIRC you need your student ID number. I did this like, right after I got accepted so I'm fuzzy on the details.

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thanks for that information! i signed up but it's telling me that my username/pw can not be found. i'll wait till tomorrow and see if anything changes--if not i'll be on the phone i guess :)

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I think it took a couple of days to be able to access the account after I signed up. You got a page with your email and some ridiculously obscure password right?

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Yup! I got all that crap :)

Thanks for helping out!!

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Hey,

So here's some positive thinking for you guys that are starting soon. Yes; the ace program is a lot of work; but its not necessarily hard (you can't sit around and wait till the day before to study), but I previously had a 2.8 psychology degree and am having no problems with the courses; it's really not rocket science. Just stay on top of things and don't just memorize stuff; actually learn it and you'll do fine. 1st quarter took some adjusting, but honestly this quarter I haven't hardly had to study at all and I have 3 A's and a B (I'm in second quarter which is supposed to be the hardest). Also they seem to reserve the harder stuff for midterms and it's a cakewalk to finals, so really try to do well on your midterms and learn that stuff and once again...you'll be fine.

If you like people; you'll absolutely love clinicals and the days blow by so fast. I feel like I just started and I'm already almost half way through (I"ll admit I can't wait till the day I graduate). Anyway the people that tend to not make it through have too many other commitments and other things going on in their life so just prepare your next 11 months to be all about you. Seriously...no worries...I would recommend a car though, most sites aren't accessible by public transportation and you have to be there by 6:30; I generally wake up at 4:30 for clinical days, which would make public transportation nearly impossible since its not a 24 hour thing. Um oh yes...and eat breakfast and get your sleep...it'll help you more than staying up all night studying does!

Good luck!

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