<p>Does anyone have info or experience dealing with financial aid ending when there have been an "Excess" of credits granted for AP Courses etc?</p>
<p>I think this happens in Calif with either Blue and Gold Promise or Cal Grants.</p>
<p>If this is some kind of trend, then I guess people shouldn’t send their AP scores until maybe after senior year of college starts??? :/</p>
<p>If you are in trouble with the SAP policy at your school and the reason is AP credits, I would imagine you should be able to have your appeal granted. The SAP regulations changed this year, and some students might get caught up in being unsat due to AP credits. I would think if there are no other issues, this should be an appeal that would be approved (no promises, though).</p>
<p>kelsmom,</p>
<p>Can you elaborate a little more on that? Are kids with a lot of AP credits in trouble?</p>
<p>I apologize, I may have been misleading.
We are not in trouble yet, that I know of. I am trying to be proactive.</p>
<p>S1 is a current college sophmore. He had received credit for several classes he took in HS and may be in a position to receive additional credits that would give him "senior " status for next year. I am concerned that if he actually achieves “senior” status, he may not be eligible in his true Senior year for the financial aid he is currently receiving. Some language around receiving aid through the semester in which you achieve 32 credits etc etc.</p>
<p>He does NOT intend to graduate early and in fact will not meet all his classes for his major until his 4th year.</p>
<p>I will of course have him contact the aid office , just trying to line up good questions and such before hand with the help of knowledgeable CC folk.</p>
<p>From my knowledge, Satisfactory Academic Progress only comes into play when one has near 150% of the credits required for a degree. In practice, schools are more likely to grant appeals when the student has a large amount of college credit from courses taken during high school, is planning to graduate on time, and has a good academic record.</p>
<p>This one is a source of concern for me. D1 brought in 29 credit hours from dual enrollment. Her program is 128 credit hours, and all she gets to take in that 128 are gen ed, pre-reqs/supporting courses, and program classes. There is no room for electives. She’s using summer school and those dual enrollment credits which counted as gen eds to free up time in her schedule for her music classes, which she needs in order to keep her campus job. She will have enough hours to have achieved senior status by spring semester of her second year, but will still have 2.5 years of program left. She will graduate, we figure, with 186 credit hours, just under the 150%. However all it takes is a major change . . .</p>
<p>You need to check with the school. </p>
<p>The UCs in Calif and some other schools WILL STOP your aid when you reach a certain senior level…and AP Credits can cause problems because many kids have excessive/unneeded AP credits that push them into senior status too soon…so they lose aid too soon.</p>
<p>You need to check with your school for its policies.</p>
<p>What are the specific questions/ issues I need to address?
One thing I’ve learned here on CC is that not everything works the way you think it will, and you need to ask the RIGHT questions.</p>
<p>With the new regulations, I have heard some discussion of kids with a lot of AP credit that is not applied toward the degree requirements (that is, given as free credit) running into problems. I don’t think this will be a common problem, but it depends on the student & the school. Changing majors a lot can compound the issue of too many AP free credits, I suppose. Frankly, I wouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>thanks kelsmom! Happy to get reassurance from a reliable source.</p>
<p>skier…What school is this? Is there any state aid involved?</p>
<p>Ask the school how AP credits might affect FA if your son reaches “senior status” (credits-wise) long before he can actually graduate because of AP credits. </p>
<p>Fed aid can be very different from state aid or institutional aid.</p>