can request to have their application adjusted. There must be a special circumstance to warrant such an adjustment to be made. Some instances where these changes could made include loss of a job, death of a parent, unusually high medical bills, and marriage/divorce. Contact the office of financial aid for more information regarding specific situations. Students receiving adjustments will be required to submit extra documentation. SATISFACTORY ACADEMIC PROGRESS FOR FEDERAL STUDENT AID The office of financial aid administers Title IV Federal Student Aid programs under governmental guidelines. Governmental guidelines require students to maintain satisfactory academic progress to be eligible for all Federal Student Aid funds. The US Department of Education allows each institution to develop its own policy concerning the standard of practice as long as it satisfies governmental guidelines.
Qualitative standard for SAP: students must achieve a 2.0 GPA in order to graduate. As students progress toward graduation, they must maintain the following cumulative GPA in the following increments:
Completed Hours 12 Minimum GPA 1.00
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36
48
60+ 2.00
1.25
1.50
1.75
Quantitative standard for SAP: For financial aid purposes only, federal regulations require that students complete the program in no more than 150% of the normal program requirement. Students are considered to be making satisfactory academic progress if they have earned credit for at least two-thirds of all attempted credits. For a BRE program requiring 121 completed credits, no federal financial aid will be given after 181 attempted hours. Students in the 60-hour AAS program cannot receive federal financial aid after 90 attempted hours. Students in the One Year Bible Certificate cannot receive financial aid after 45 attempted hours and students in the One Year TESL Certificate cannot receive federal financial aid after 36 attempted credits. Students who change programs will be required to meet the SAP standards for the new program. Withdrawals: A grade of "VWD" (withdrew within three weeks of the start of the semester) will not count in SAP calculations. Grades of VWP or VWF will count as attempted hours and will factor into GPA. Repeated courses: All attempts will be counted as attempted hours, but prior attempts will not factor into GPA. Incompletes will count as attempted hours and will factor into GPA once the course is either satisfactorily completed or given an "F" grade when not completed. Transfer credits will count as attempted and completed hours but will not be included in the GPA calculation. SAP is checked at the conclusion of the fall and spring semesters. For students taking summer classes, SAP will be checked at the conclusion of the summer session instead of the spring. When students fail to meet either the qualitative or quantitative standard, they are placed on financial aid probation for one semester. Students may receive financial aid during the period of probation. If, at the conclusion of the probational semester, the students have not achieved SAP, they will be ineligible for financial aid thereafter until achieving SAP. Exception: If students achieve a 2.0 semester GPA while taking at least 12 credits during the probational semester, yet still have not regained SAP, they will be considered to have made SAP but will continue on probation during the next semester and be able to receive financial aid. If, after that semester, they have still not regained SAP, they will be ineligible to receive financial aid until attaining SAP. NOTE: Students who receive a 0.00 GPA for a semester and fall short of SAP guidelines will not be placed on probation and will be ineligible for financial aid until regaining SAP.
Also note that taking a semester off or any period of absence does not "reset" or reestablish SAP. SAP is regained by meeting the above standards or being granted an appeal (see below).
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