Students who wish to receive funding from the Federal financial aid programs must maintain satisfactory academic progress toward their degree or certificate program.
Students who fail to maintain satisfactory academic progress will lose their eligibility for federal financial aid including Pell grant, SEOG grant, Federal work-study and Stafford loans.
Please carefully read all of the following information. Students are responsible for registering for and completing their courses in accordance with the following criteria:
Students will be evaluated at the end of each Spring semester for Federal financial aid satisfactory academic progress.
The evaluation will include any courses attempted during the preceding Summer sessions, Fall semester, Intersession and Spring semesters.
Evaluation of academic eligibility for Federal financial aid includes qualitative and quantitative components:
1. Qualitative Component (GPA): Students must maintain certain Grade Point Average requirements in order to continue federal financial aid eligibility.
· These standards are consistent with the college's standards for academic suspension.
· Program changes will not assist the student in raising the GPA for Title IV purposes.
· No students on academic suspension are eligible for financial aid.
· The grades received in non-credit remedial courses are not counted in this calculation.
2. Quantitative Component(Credit earned/attempted): The quantitative component consists of two elements:
A. Earned Credits: Students must complete with a passing grade (D- or better) a certain percentage of their semester hours which they attempt during the academic year.
· Each year students must successfully complete 2/3 of attempted hours, including non-credit remedial courses.
B. Maximum Time Frame: Students may attempt semester hours equal to 150% of the published time frame for the program in which the student is enrolled at the time of evaluation. For example, if the program requires 60 semester hours to complete, the student may attempt 90 hours in this program. When the student's attempted hours are equal to or exceed 150% of the published length of the student's current program, then, the student is no longer eligible for Federal financial aid.
The quantitative component includes all semesters that a student has attended MCC, whether or not federal financial aid was received and regardless of when the courses were taken.
It is very important for students to know that there is a lifetime limit of Federal Pell Grants of 12 full-time semesters.
Ramon L. Rodriguez
Financial Aid
10/05/2012 |