Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:56 p.m.

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YLS ’08 grads feel pain of clerical error

law school registrar, SFAS provided wrong end-of-term date to national clearinghouse

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Benjamin Hillman LAW ’08 got an unexpected surprise for graduation: an additional month of interest and an earlier-than-expected call asking him to pay back his student loans.

For Hillman and several other members of the Yale Law School class of 2008, a clerical error in the Yale administration has cost them earlier repayment, higher balances and bureaucratic headaches. Officials in both the Law School and Yale’s Student Financial and Administrative Services have been working for months to clear up the discrepancy.

So far, it remains unresolved. It was supposed to be done...

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