Legal Question in Education Law in Georgia

I took a class over the summer at a different college and filled out the proper financial aid for the summer to go toward that class. I thought the summer aid paid for the class because when the class started they had me fully registered and on the attendance roll. Now two years later a debt collector says I owe $508 dollars for the class I had taken. I contacted the school and they said I was expected to pay out of pocket as a transient student. I asked to see the their policies manual and it states "Registration is not complete until all tuition and fees have

been paid...Failure to fulfill financial obligations may result in denial of readmission, registration, certification of

attendance, transcripts, graduation, etc. Official transcripts will not be issued and graduation will be denied for

students whose accounts are delinquent. The College reserves the right to cancel a student�s registration for

non-payment at any time after the payment deadline." My registration should not have been completed by the university if the class was not paid for and it should have been canceled and I should have been dropped from the class until paid and re-registered with a late fee added. They say I have to pay because I attended the class but I only attended the class because my registration was complete and I was listed on attendance, if I was not of attendance then other steps would have been taken on my part and I would have called my initial school.Do you have to pay for a debt if the school neglected to follow their own policy and protocol? I feel that this can not be compared to a movie theater because a theater does not have the complex computer system with our personal and financial information as each university does compared to a one button system and I cannot control government aid I can only complete the proper paperwork. I have been automatically dropped from a system before when I attended a pricier school and had to take a student loan then re-register and pay a late fee. I should not have had the certification of attendance because of incomplete registration way before the class started, so therefore my name should not have been on the attendance roll sheet period because there is a fee payment deadline that has to be reach before classes start. I still don't understand, you can sneak into college like you can sneak into a movie because college has computer systems that every office (student account, registrar, and financial aid) has to access.

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