I am glad that schools charge a credit card fee. Otherwise, part of my payment is going to the credit card company. I want every dollar I am putting toward college to be going toward college.
I am glad that schools charge a credit card fee. Otherwise, part of my payment is going to the credit card company. I want every dollar I am putting toward college to be going toward college.
I am just curious....we have twins who just started college this year and I thought one 'perk' from this expense would be racking up Disney Reward Points. But then I find out that their college charges a service fee if you pay by credit card. So we wrote out checks instead because the service fee was 2.5% (so there would be no 'rewards' benefit to that).
Is that typical for colleges to do that? The bookstore didn't do that, so we at least got to earn some reward points on that expense. But for the tuition we won't at all.
We can pay tutiton with a credit card, but DS had a 529 account and I haven't had to pay much out of pocket. I was hoping to pay his rent with my Disney Visa, nope, they charge a fee! He is in off campus housing.
My DD goes to a state university here in CO and there is no additional charge for using a CC. I love the cashback rewards!
Tad off topic, cannot remember poster,
You should not have to pay for services not being used like the Health Center, etc. You should be able to decline any services offered.
I guess if it comes within a package with other services it may need to be included.
Tad off topic, cannot remember poster,
You should not have to pay for services not being used like the Health Center, etc. You should be able to decline any services offered.
I guess if it comes within a package with other services it may need to be included.
I am just curious....we have twins who just started college this year and I thought one 'perk' from this expense would be racking up Disney Reward Points. But then I find out that their college charges a service fee if you pay by credit card. So we wrote out checks instead because the service fee was 2.5% (so there would be no 'rewards' benefit to that).
Is that typical for colleges to do that? The bookstore didn't do that, so we at least got to earn some reward points on that expense. But for the tuition we won't at all.
you all know that you can get a check from Chase Visa for your Disney Visa to get points (most other companies will give you a check too) and send that in to pay whatever. I just got checks from Visa in the mail again yesterday and it was no fee to use them and sometimes they say 0% financing on whatever we paid for with those checks for 6 months or so.
We haven't used them yet but I'm sure we will someday.