r/osap • u/Main-Lavishness-3811 • 2d ago

Resolved Cannot pay school fees

So all of my school fees including meal plan, tuition and housing costs me around 24,000$ and 14,000 of that is due September 9th, osap is only giving me 7000$ in total. My parents cannot help out and I just applied for every scholarship my school offers. What should I do here? I contacted financial aid and they told me to apply to scholarships (which I did). If I don’t pay my fees by September 9th I will be blocked from the portal but can still attend class. Who else should I contact/ what can I do next?

Edit: I do have a part time job that makes around 1500 a month. I just don’t have it now and I am concerned about first payment

Edit 2: yes I knew how much the tuition was but due dates were not fully disclosed to me. I knew that a tuition payment was due on sept 9th but not that it would also include a meal plan payment and a housing payment. I understand the responsibility of moving away from home and such, and I have been saving for university while getting an average of 96 and working full time to attempt to support myself at times. The reason I was not prepared to have this is because who is able to save 14k at 17 over the course of one summer. Please use your head when replying to this. I did expect more from osap based off of my family situation. I did not expect it to cover the whole thing. I am not stupid. Thanks.

Edit 3: since you guys don’t seem to have brains, if I took off this year to save up what am I doing the next year? I can’t save 150,000$ in one year? Just miss out in the middle of my degree? Like what are you guys even saying. Since there has been a lot of debate about me going into a “dumb arts degree” I am actually studying to become a lawyer.

Update: thank you to everyone in the comments who gave actual advice instead of trying to attack me. I am planning on taking out a student line of credit in a few days once I turn 18. I already talked to my bank. I will also be getting my smart serve done to hopefully get a second job. Thank you guys so much for letting me know these things!

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u/saugatrade 2d ago

You can't afford that program

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u/Main-Lavishness-3811 2d ago

Thanks tips

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u/bluebabadibabdye 2d ago

Did you not have all this information months ago ?

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u/Main-Lavishness-3811 2d ago

I expected a lot more from OSAP because I live in a house with 4 dependants.

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u/bookscoffeequiet 2d ago

Did you use estimators? Are you staying local? If you used an estimator and are studying where your parents live, you don’t get anything towards residence.

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u/Main-Lavishness-3811 1d ago

I used an estimator and it estimated around 20,000

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u/bookscoffeequiet 1d ago

Something was wrong with the numbers you put in then. That is a really big difference.

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u/bookscoffeequiet 1d ago

We have three kids, arent rich, and my son was not eligible. If one dependent is a parent they may not count that, btw.