{"id":24523,"date":"2019-09-06T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T18:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=24523"},"modified":"2019-09-06T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T18:13:49","slug":"second-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=24523","title":{"rendered":"second strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this is my second strike with osap and they\u2019ve decided not to give my money for this year\u2019s tuition. Is it possible to get a deferral so I have time to gather the funds? I don\u2019t have any scholarships. It\u2019s crazy that I don\u2019t seem to have the option to defer unless I\u2019m with osap when it seems like students like me need that grace period the most..<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>unfortunately, as far as i know, you&#8217;re only able to defer your fees for two reasons: if you have incoming scholarships, and if you&#8217;re waiting on OSAP. i&#8217;m not aware of any exceptions to this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/130d6vlmqNcqxG\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>that is a tough situation&#8211; it kind of makes sense that the university&#8217;s policies would be this way, because they need a guarantee that they can get your tuition money. with OSAP and scholarships, they kind of have that. with miscellaneous please-give-me-time situations, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m sorry i can&#8217;t be more helpful&#8211; i do want to send you to your <a href=\"https:\/\/future.utoronto.ca\/current-students\/registrars\/\">registrar<\/a>, just in case i&#8217;m wrong and there is something you can do. it&#8217;s possible that they may be able to talk to you about grants or something&#8211; emergency funds for students in your situation.<\/p>\n<p>best of luck with it all, man.<\/p>\n<p>be Boundless,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is my second strike with osap and they\u2019ve decided not to give my money for this year\u2019s tuition. Is it possible to get a deferral so I have time to gather the funds? I don\u2019t have any scholarships. It\u2019s crazy that I don\u2019t seem to have the option to defer unless I\u2019m with osap when it seems like students like me need that grace period the most.. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, unfortunately, as far as i know, you&#8217;re only able to defer your fees for two reasons: if you have incoming scholarships, and if you&#8217;re waiting on OSAP. i&#8217;m not aware of any exceptions to this. that is a tough situation&#8211; it kind of makes sense that the university&#8217;s policies would be this way, because they need a guarantee that they can get your tuition money. with OSAP and scholarships, they kind of have that. with miscellaneous please-give-me-time situations, not so much. i&#8217;m sorry i can&#8217;t be more helpful&#8211; i do want to send you to your registrar, just in case i&#8217;m wrong and there is something you can do. it&#8217;s possible that they may be able to talk to you about grants or something&#8211; emergency funds for students in your situation. best of luck with it all, man. be Boundless, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,127,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deferral","category-fees","category-osap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}