Some Charlotte Law Students Now Have Even Heavier Debt Burdens

Not all students were saved when the Department of Education released federal loans...

student loan debt forgivenessI had nothing to do with the poor decisions the administration made over the course of several years that resulted in the school’s probation, or the resulting DOE’s suspension of funding. However, I am being punished for these mistakes now, while InfiLaw and CSL get to continue profiting from me. That sounds unreasonably favorable to the parties who put students like me in this situation.

— Matt Blevins, a 2017 graduate of the Charlotte School of Law, commenting on the fact that he had to take an institutional loan from the school in order to pay for the spring 2017 semester and graduate. Blevins says that the institutional loan cannot be consolidated into his federal loans, and he believes that his monthly student loan payments will now increase by more than 50 percent.

As we previously reported, Charlotte Law’s eligibility for the federal student loan program was revoked in December, and students were sent scrambling for ways to finance the spring semester without loans. Earlier this month, the school offered students three options: pay tuition out of pocket, sign up for an institutional loan, or withdraw from the school (without grades for the semester, a transcript, or a transfer packet). Shortly before graduation, the Department of Education released the second disbursement of loans for students with fall-spring financial aid packages. Because Blevins took summer classes, he was not eligible for the disbursement.


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