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I have the same problem with money lol...I am getting back money from my loans which I desperately need and they won't give it to us until the end of Add/drop period- but add/drop ends jan 16th so I was hoping we could get our checks oh like the 19th (the following mon)...but who knows. I don't know about parking either...they said we could apply for parking or whatever on orientation day but who knows if there will even be any available spots...so my plan was just to park across the street at st. v's which is $4 dollars a day- but even so thats $80 a month! This is all getting way too expensive! We can probably all figure out a carpool situation once we meet (just a few more days!). By the way does anyone know what is going on for orientation...like what time we are supposed to be there and where etc? I haven't gotten anything in the mail or email about it? Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays and is enjoying their last week of freedom!

I'm not sure of the exact bus schedule eitehr but I had checked that out a few months ago and I know it is online. I also live just outside of worcester (holden/worcester line) so carpooling could def be a way to go!

hey I got an answer about the email-and I was told another one was being sent today so I don't know if everyone got that. I just wanted to say you can find the Littmann cardiology III for a lower price than 155 at Trippis-and thats a sale for them. The lowest I've found so far is 129.99 from Steeles (www.steeles.com/catalog/3mlittcardIII.html) - any savings are good since we are already spending so much money for this program!

hey amanda-congrats on getting in! Ya they are def bad at getting back to people at this school. We definetly do not start clinicals until our summer semester- so I don't know what month that is june or july- but they are probably accurate with the july.

I didn't get an email with a book list-when was it sent? Also were you guys able to get on the parking wait list? I was told we had to wait till orientation and thats where we would be able to figure out parking.

Wow ya more details please? I hope the worcester campus isn't as bad as what it sounds like your saying about the boston campus. I sure don't want to be spending this much money for a complete nightmare :uhoh21:

Ya i know it seems crazy just for 2 semesters of school! Its hard enough trying to get loans the first time around lol

well what I did for the loan amount was take the budget on our financial aid letter and subtract my award amount and since thats the total the school would certify thats what I took out in the loan I applied for. For me that will cover the rest of tuition for spring and summer and some left over for books etc. and the financial aid guy said that the total loan amount will be divided in half and sent in 2 disbursements. However, I still need to apply for another loan just for my living expenses which sucks because I'm not having much luck with that.

ok I just called financial aid- i wanted to cathch them before the weekend. He said they messed up and sent the health insurance forms separate from the bill, so the health insurance waiver forms will be coming beginning of next week. I totally forgot to mention about the summer session bill so I dunno about that. But he did say that if you have a loan that the school will request 2 different dispursments one for spring one for summer.

I just got my bill ass well- no health insurance waiver form or even instuctions how how to go about doing so. This school is driving me crazy already! Also no summer charges- which I assumed ould be on there. So Im guessing we will get a different bill when summer comes- but it would have been nice if they had sent us both now so we can figure out loans-seriously! Guess I'm going to be calling the financial aid office- again.

Umm let me see if I can help cuz I have emailed the financial aid guy at least 3 times today- poor guy! Ok so the 33,660 (thats what was on mine too) is the expected budget for tuition, fees, books, supplies, room, board, transportation, and miscellaneous- and that is just for Spring and Summer semesters only. If you don't have health insurance you will have to take it through the school, which is the only thing i'm not sure is included in the 33,660. He said that the health insurance forms will come in the mail with our bill- at which point you can either take it or deny it if you are already covered by someone else. So if you take out room and board and health insurance the budget is less-i'm just not sure what. The amount of your award determines how much money the school will certify any personal loan for. The way it was explained to me: Take the budget and subtract the current award amount from that and that is what the school can certify the loan for. For me that amount isn't enough to cover the rest of my "budget" and my total living expenses so I have to take out another personal loan on top of that one that doesn't need the school to certify the amount. Man this is crazy I can't believe how in debt I'm going to be at the end of 16 mnth! I don't know if that made sense or answered any questions lol, but hopefully.

I asked about the bill and he said we would receive a bill either this week or early next- but I haven't gotten mine yet. Oh I just got an email from (lol I'm emailing everyone with questions) he said bills will be sent out by 11-14. I made out a tentative cost list for our school and I got 15,200 but I added in a lab top that I need, books, supplies, parking etc. So it could be less without those things. Don't we need to take out a loan for spring and summer?? I'm having trouble with private loans- sallie mae works with our school but the school has to certify the amount you need so basically said take the budget that is on your letter and subtract the total amount of award you got and that number is what the school will certify-no more. Which sortof stinks cuz I was going to try not to work during school so I need more money for living expenses. Blah. The other loans I've looked into were CHASE(they don't work with our school so thats out), BOA (but they aren't giving loans right now), Terri (they aren't accepting applications anymore), Citizens bank is the same as sallie mae I guess because citizens is the bank that is the lender for our school, there are some others like wells-fargo but they for example have variable APR which is not great. Other than that I was going to try credit unions. Anyway just thought I'd share my frustrations and research so maybe it will help and save you some time. Good luck and let me know if you find any good loan places becuase I'm def still looking!!

I'm not sure either about the CPR before Jan- i would call and ask. I think all of you are on the facebook group for our class? I just posted a letter from a friend of a friend lol that is in the program right now and she said some helpful things about the schedule and books, parking etc. check it out. Also I just got my financial aid package in so they must be coming if you havent gotten one yet! Now I'm just freaking out about where to get private loans from-eek!!

Hmm interesting I'm curious about that now too. I think we weren't supposed to get a schedule before orientation but it would be nice I wonder if there is someone else at the school that could tell us. If those parents are willing to work with your schedule then I would def try to keep the job. I'll let you know if I find anything out :nuke:

CLLB585 - do you want to know about the schedule as in what classes were going to be taking or like the hrs we'll be in class? If you go on the mcphs website and get into nursing and hit cirriculum it will give you the outline for what classes we are going to be taking and which semesters and nursing 226 is on there for our first semester. As far as hrs go I'm not completely sure but I thought someone mentioned the first semster would be like a mon-fri 8-4 kind of deal. So depending on when you nanny I might think of giving my notice?