$250 for letter of good academic standing? Forum

icedison · Post by **icedison** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:34 am

Is this legit? I mean, can they do this legally or is this basically blackmailing?

Anyone having similar experiences with their schools? I am trying to see if this is a common phenomenon and whether I should fight it rather than swallow the cost

Norwood · Post by **Norwood** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:58 am

They should be only be charging for the administrative costs associated with processing the letter, rather than using it as a profit generating mechanism.

fatduck · Post by **fatduck** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:59 am

i am genuinely sorry you go to such a shitty school, and glad that you are getting out. i think the best thing to do here is just suck it up and pay, though. and out the school.

random5483 · Post by **random5483** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:44 am

Which school charges that much?? Costs like under 10 bucks for letter/transcripts/etc for me.

Danteshek · Post by **Danteshek** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:56 am

What school?

jstn1104 · Post by **jstn1104** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:37 am

icedison wrote:Is this legit? I mean, can they do this legally or is this basically blackmailing?

Anyone having similar experiences with their schools? I am trying to see if this is a common phenomenon and whether I should fight it rather than swallow the cost

That is bullshit.

All the more reason to transfer.

DeSimone · Post by **DeSimone** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:28 am

Try to explain the situation to the adcoms. Ask if you can provide the letter of good standing after admittance in the event you're admitted. At the same time, stress your interest in the school.

Mine were free (didn't even pay for postage) fwiw.

ETA: iirc, someone said that UIUC is the school that does this in another thread (but I might be wrong).

lsltyf · Post by **lsltyf** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:42 am

DeSimone wrote:Try to explain the situation to the adcoms. Ask if you can provide the letter of good standing after admittance in the event you're admitted. At the same time, stress your interest in the school.

Mine were free (didn't even pay for postage) fwiw.

ETA: iirc, someone said that UIUC is the school that does this in another thread (but I might be wrong).

Sucks. Pay it and move on. Never look back.

dood · Post by **dood** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:48 am

stop being a pooor

VinceIrons · Post by **VinceIrons** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 8:53 am

$250 each? That's absurd. I feel bad about bitching over my $40 per letter + transcript.

keg411 · Post by **keg411** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:27 am

That's insane. Both our letters of good standing and transcripts are free (although apparently the latter is thanks to the main campus undergrad students).

Kilpatrick · Post by **Kilpatrick** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:33 am

Not sure if OP goes to Illinois, but they do have this shitty policy. $250 for the first two and $50 for each school after that. It's basically extortion but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to keep people in the middle of a cornfield.

patrickd139 · Post by **patrickd139** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:53 am

Danteshek wrote:What school?

This. Out yoy school, OP.

Also, I lol'd:

dood wrote:stop being a pooor

ndirish2010 · Post by **ndirish2010** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:11 am

Kilpatrick wrote:Not sure if OP goes to Illinois, but they do have this shitty policy. $250 for the first two and $50 for each school after that. It's basically extortion but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to keep people in the middle of a cornfield.

Wow, I would have never pegged UIUC for this policy.

oktransferok · Post by **oktransferok** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:22 pm

ndirish2010 wrote:
Kilpatrick wrote:Not sure if OP goes to Illinois, but they do have this shitty policy. $250 for the first two and $50 for each school after that. It's basically extortion but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to keep people in the middle of a cornfield.
Wow, I would have never pegged UIUC for this policy.

Milking transfer hopefulls to generate money for incomming 1L class schollys. Classy.

missinglink · Post by **missinglink** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:52 pm

That's extortion. Sorry to hear that.

Here, transcripts are $5 each, and letters of good standing are free.

Post by **Helmholtz** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:54 pm

ndirish2010 wrote:
Kilpatrick wrote:Not sure if OP goes to Illinois, but they do have this shitty policy. $250 for the first two and $50 for each school after that. It's basically extortion but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to keep people in the middle of a cornfield.
Wow, I would have never pegged UIUC for this policy.

I thought UIUC had a little bit of a rep for shady shit like this?

deadpanic · Post by **deadpanic** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:31 pm

Helmholtz wrote:
ndirish2010 wrote:
Kilpatrick wrote:Not sure if OP goes to Illinois, but they do have this shitty policy. $250 for the first two and $50 for each school after that. It's basically extortion but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do to keep people in the middle of a cornfield.
Wow, I would have never pegged UIUC for this policy.
I thought UIUC had a little bit of a rep for shady shit like this?

Yeah, I mean, didn't they have some other similar sketchiness going down within the past couple years? get the hell out of there ASAP.

CanadianWolf · Post by **CanadianWolf** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:34 pm

Offer to furnish the pen, paper & postage and see if they'll do it for a more reasonable fee.

fatduck · Post by **fatduck** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:45 pm

tips@abovethelaw.com

Zazelmaf · Post by **Zazelmaf** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:47 pm

CanadianWolf wrote:Offer to furnish the pen, paper & postage and see if they'll do it for a more reasonable fee.

This is the credited response.

Kilpatrick · Post by **Kilpatrick** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:49 pm

I don't think there's anything else that Illinois does that is similarly shady. Unless you're talking about the admissions scandal from a couple years ago under the former dean. That was shady but not in a screwing-your-students kind of way.

I like pretty much everything else about Illinois besides this though.

jeff5170 · Post by **jeff5170** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:50 pm

fatduck wrote:tips@abovethelaw.com

this.

09042014 · Post by **09042014** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:59 pm

Do you have to send this to every school you apply to? Or only the one you attend, or to LSAC?

1 time fucking you over for 250 sucks, fucking you for 250 each time is unacceptable.

Kilpatrick · Post by **Kilpatrick** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:01 pm

Desert Fox wrote:Do you have to send this to every school you apply to? Or only the one you attend, or to LSAC?

1 time fucking you over for 250 sucks, fucking you for 250 each time is unacceptable.

You need one for every school. It's $250 for the first two, $50 for each school after that.

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