Legal Question in Employment Law in Virginia

I currently work at a Christian bookstore as a key holder. I am required to work so many nights a week, and 2 Saturdays a month. I have been looking at going back to school, and was visiting a campus Feb 10-13, and scheduled to have those days off. We have a monthly schedule that we hand in with the days we can and cannot work, which I handed in mid January for the month of February. I had scheduled my appointment at the college the first of January, and it required a non refundable 50 dollar payment (it included food, room, ticket to the sporting event, and concert ticket). My former manager had left Jan 23rd, and the assistant manager is in charge till the 14th of February when our new manager starts. I received a phone call from the assistant manager last Saturday telling me I absolutely had to work the weekend of the 10-13th because we were short staffed. I informed her that I was not able to due to the non refundable payment to the college, and that I had already scheduled my 2 Sat for the month. When I went in the following Monday, I saw that a schedule had been made where I was working Mon-wed (the 7-9) and I was off as I was supposed to be the 10-13. The assistant manager then came into the office and started with the "you have to work" spiel again, and I informed her the only way I could work was if I was given 50 dollars, which is a lot of money for a college student who also has insurance and a car payment each month. The said schedule had 5 associates working(1 manager opening, 1 closing, and 3 customer service associates). On wed, she finally changed the schedule, and put me on it to work Fri and Sat (the 10 and 11), however, I still have my original schedule showing me being off. I would just like to know if there is a way for me to still go to the college, or if I am able to get my money back. As stated previously, everything I did was company policy, yet I am still being denied my life outside of work. Thank you so much.

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