Satisfactory Academic Progress Procedures
- The Academic Evaluation of Satisfactory Academic Progress and the separate Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress Evaluations are two separate processes that may occur at similar times at the end of each term. Students may receive notification from each separate area concerning their status. From the Academic Evaluation, students may receive notice regarding eligibility to continue enrollment or not. From the Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress Evaluation at the end of each term, the student will receive notice from the Aid Office with regard to eligibility to receive aid or not. It is possible for a student to be allowed to continue enrollment from the Academic Evaluation, but due to the Financial Aid Evaluation not be allowed to continue to receive aid, or vice versa. Students should pay close attention to the source of their notification and the status they have been assigned from each area. The following terms (2-4) listed below refer to only the Financial Aid part of the overall satisfactory progress evaluations that occur.
- Satisfactory Academic Progress statuses will be checked prior to the beginning of each academic year during the awarding processes.
- SAP will be checked at the end of each semester. Emails go out to students email accounts letting students know their new statuses. Enrolled students for that term should be prepared to review that email at the end of the term in case they are affected by an appeal deadline. Students with an opportunity to appeal are notified of a deadline in the email. Students that do not need to appeal, or are past the option to appeal due to non-SAP, will not see an appeal deadline in their email notice from the Aid Office.
- The 150% allowance will be checked prior to the beginning of each academic year and at the end of each term.
Should either the GPA or two-thirds requirements not be met, one semester’s probation will be allowed where aid will continue to be made available to regain satisfactory academic standards.
Should either the GPA or two-thirds requirements fail to be met at the end of the probationary semester; eligibility for aid will be suspended