Do your students know that to maintain federal financial aid eligibility they must complete with a passing grade 2/3 of attempted hours each year to keep their federal financial aid?”
The following elements may impact a student’s satisfactory academic progress for federal financial assistance:
Withdrawals: Withdrawals (W’s, WI’s) will not be counted as completed semester hours because students earn no credits. However, they will always be counted as attempted semester hours.
Incomplete Grades (I): Incomplete grades in any class will not be counted toward completed semester hours. They will always be counted as attempted semester hours. When the incomplete is changed to a letter grade, it will be counted toward completed hours if the grade is a D- or better. Very important: “The student is responsible for notifying the Financial Aid Office that the incomplete is changed and requesting a re-evaluation of the federal financial aid eligibility”.
Repeated Courses: If a student repeats a course in which a passing (D- or better) grade was earned in a prior semester, the repeated course will not be counted in the total completed semester hours. It will always be counted in the total attempted semester hours. A repeated course generally does not count toward full-time status unless the prior grade was not passing or designated as an allowable repeat.
Non-Credit Remedial Courses: Students who are required to take non-credit remedial courses may attempt up to 30 semester hours of non-credit remedial courses. These attempted hours will not be counted toward the 150% maximum time frame, but they do count toward % earned for annual hours. After attempting 30 semester hours of remedial courses, the student will be ineligible for any Federal financial aid for non-credit remedial courses attempted in excess of 30 hours.
Ramon L. Rodriguez
Financial Aid
10/08/2012 |