{"id":82,"date":"2018-04-18T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.forums.geteducated.com\/forums\/uncategorized\/what-should-i-do-if-i-am-unable-to-obtain-official-transcripts-from-a-previous-college\/"},"modified":"2020-02-21T04:55:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T04:55:35","slug":"what-should-i-do-if-i-am-unable-to-obtain-official-transcripts-from-a-previous-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/6-online-bachelor-degree-programs\/what-should-i-do-if-i-am-unable-to-obtain-official-transcripts-from-a-previous-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Transcripts Unavailable\u2014What to Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a 4-yr university rougly 5 years ago. My financial aid fel though and I was unable to apply for loans (family has a history of bad credit as well). The financial aid office encourgaged me to remain enrolled and that we had options to cover costs. Unfortunately that never materialized.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I completed my first semester without being able to cover the costs and as a result was unable to enroll the following semester. I then stopped attending and got a part time job but still want to complete my degree. Brcause most colleges require &#8220;official&#8221; transcripts I am in a bit of a bind. My previous school refuses to release official transcripts until I pay off the amount owed (somewhere in the vicinity of 30k) I am in no position to do so. I&#8217;ve attempted to work out a payment plan with them (they want over $450 monthly, which I can also not afford) but even if I take the payment plan they will not release transcripts until the full amount if paid off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What are my options in this situation if I wish to contine my education?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a 4-yr university rougly 5 years ago. My financial aid fel though and I was unable to apply&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-6-online-bachelor-degree-programs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geteducated.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}