ATL report
Pricing their tuition at a whopping $67K a year, Washington University School of Law is up there with some of the most expensive law schools to attend in the nation. Your first thought may be that if attending WashU costs too much, you could just go somewhere else. Well, one student tried that and still got hit with a $37K bill.
Because Allie Brown is spending a year at Georgetown, she thought she wouldn’t have to pay WashU for a year she didn’t spend in the Midwest. That… kind of makes sense. The bow on top of all of this is that she contends that WashU’s behavior is retaliatory. She got accused of being threatening by a professor and a couple of students:
The Student Conduct Board ended up dropping all of the charges, but she thinks the bill is allegedly WashU’s last attempt at a get back. If she doesn’t pay the forced tab, the school can withhold transcripts. Getting a job after school is hard enough without having to deal with that extra layer of bureaucracy.
Read more at
https://abovethelaw.com/2023/12/law-school-hits-student-with-17k-bill-even-after-they-transferred/
