Corey Arvinger didn’t ever expect to drop out of college.
The Greensboro, N.C., native was finishing his fourth semester at Howard University in 2012 when he discovered that he owed the Washington, D.C.-based university $14,000. It came as a surprise to Arvinger, now 21, who had worked hard to improve his GPA after being placed on academic probation his first year.
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“I was a point away from meeting the [university’s minimum GPA] standard, basically because my time management was horrible,” he explained. “I was very involved on campus, so I put my organizations before my school work.”
When he was accepted back into the School of Business, where he was vice president of his class freshman year, Arvinger thought his financial-aid status was the same and that his tuition was covered. Through a lack of communication with the university, he and his family were unaware that he had to reapply for financial aid within two weeks.
