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[email protected] It’s mid-April and homework is piling up as students prepare for midterms and final projects. Fall semester may be four months away, but the burden of paying student fees is ever present for some self-funded students, leaving them in search of a fee deferment in order to register for next semester’s classes. CSUMB, along with many other CSUs, requires prepayment of student fees before registering for fall semester. According to Bonnie Brown, director of Financial Aid, 65-70 percent of the student body is on financial aid, and these students have their fees deferred once they have filed their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Many students who are receiving private loans are also able to get a defer ment, but some students fall through the cracks of this process and have to pay their full tuition before they can register. Terri Ahlmann, a Telecommunications, Multimedia, and Applied Computing sen ior, is one such student. She is a Cal Edge student loan recipient who gets her aid Button, button, check at the beginning of fall semester like financial aid students.