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Unnecessary graduation fee punishes outgoing Gorloks
Issue date: 11/8/07 Section: Opinion/Editorial
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As seniors in high school, we paid to apply to Webster University. We paid fees for practically every class we took while we were here, including a $30 activity fee every year. Now, as some of us get ready to graduate, we are once again reaching into our pockets.
This time, the fee is $50 and has appeared on many seniors' billing statements already, even if they graduate in May 2008. The Registrar's office uses the fee to process the paperwork for us to graduate and to print our diplomas. We should not have to be charged a fee in order to graduate. We have worked hard enough these past four (give or take) years that charging us to leave this place is ludicrous.
What's worse is that the fee is put on seniors' accounts even if they are just candidates for graduation.
Students should not be charged this fee until they have petitioned to graduate, according to the Business Office. But this is not the case for many seniors. Some get charged the fee but might have to go another semester or even two.
This fee adds to the financial struggles students already have as they near graduation, especially those who are graduating this December. Tuition and room and board increase every year. Those of us who have been here all four years have paid more than $60,000 for tuition alone.
These graduation fees are ridiculous and should seriously be rethought by the administration.
This time, the fee is $50 and has appeared on many seniors' billing statements already, even if they graduate in May 2008. The Registrar's office uses the fee to process the paperwork for us to graduate and to print our diplomas. We should not have to be charged a fee in order to graduate. We have worked hard enough these past four (give or take) years that charging us to leave this place is ludicrous.
What's worse is that the fee is put on seniors' accounts even if they are just candidates for graduation.
Students should not be charged this fee until they have petitioned to graduate, according to the Business Office. But this is not the case for many seniors. Some get charged the fee but might have to go another semester or even two.
This fee adds to the financial struggles students already have as they near graduation, especially those who are graduating this December. Tuition and room and board increase every year. Those of us who have been here all four years have paid more than $60,000 for tuition alone.
These graduation fees are ridiculous and should seriously be rethought by the administration.
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