Drop Fee Not Very Appealing

I read the article in the summer issue called, "Clean up your act, Baruch." I experienced the same issue about the way Baruch charges students who drop a class on the first day. I took summer classes through financial aid and was charged $285 for dropping a class on the first day of class. Apparently, there is a policy that in order to receive full refund, a student must drop the class the day before his/her first day of class. I am not sure if this has been the policy for years or if they just changed it recently. Either way it is unfair, because from freshman year to the end of my sophomore year, I have always dropped classes after first day of class (during fall and spring semesters) and never received any penalties. Or if I did, financial aid would cover it because I just don't have that money. According to the faculty, this session is different. So, now I do get charged and I have to pay it out of my own pocket. I tried to file an appeal and the Financial Aid Office just told me straight to the face that I could not. Because I haven't paid for my penalty charge, they actually raised it to 300, for whatever reason. This is completely unfair. Now that I have a stop on my eSIMS, they are forcing me to pay without letting me file an appeal. What kind of message are they sending if students cannot do anything about the unfairness in the school? I completely agree with the unfairness that was written about in the article and want the Ticker to continue writing more articles regarding this issue. It is issues like this from the Ticker that make me read the Ticker. Keep up the good work. 

Your reader,

Daniel Lee ‘12

Accounting Major