Although Alamo Colleges offer a payment plan to help students pay for college, it isn’t quite enough. The way their payment plan is designed doesn’t quite work well for some college students like myself. As a college student with multiple responsibilities it isn’t easy to pay for college out of pocket on top of any other bills we have such as rent, car payments, insurance, etc. There are three major payments you must provide. Once in the beginning, immediately after registration, and following that two more times a month following the initial payment. Leaving a college student like myself without enough money left over to pay other bills. Another issue that arises is that there is no reminder that the bill is due. Alamo colleges does not send their students bills in the mail, or email them a reminder that their bill is due. So Alamo Colleges should extend their payment plan efficiently to last throughout the semester and remind their students at least two weeks in advance that their bill is due. Thus offering the college student another option to pay for a college semester and reminders of when each bill is due. With an extension, the new payment plan would be more convenient for some students to pay for their semester classes, giving them more time to come up with less money. And constant reminders would help all of the Alamo college students avoid late fees. One issue with the Alamo college payment plan is that there are no reminders when each payment is due. The college should send out emails to each student, that has a payment plan, a reminder of when their next payment is due. The outcome of this solution would result in less late fees for students, making it easier for them to make their payments on time.
Another issue is the actual payment plan itself. There are two major plans for Alamo colleges. The first one, which is also the most common is the