You can retake classes a hundred times on YOUR dime. But you clearly stated that your grades in the courses were C or better.
Financial aid does NOT pay for course retakes under these circumstances…because they are NOT needed as part of your degree program.
But to answer the subject heading if this thread…no, you cannot get financial aid if you owe another school money.
What are you doing now that you aren’t in school? Do you have a job? Shouldn’t it only take you 6 months or so to repay the $6k (or faster if you sell the car)?
Good point by @thumper1. The answer to your original question is no.
OP- a degree is NOT a transcript, or a diploma, or a piece of paper. A degree is what the institution you graduate from says it is. You can have five diplomas in Latin from various universities- if they discover fraud, (not saying that what you did was fraudulent- you clearly did not understand the terms of your aid) they can and will revoke your degree. You can keep the pieces of paper but they aren’t worth anything.
You cannot receive aid for a class you retake. That’s on you. You cannot receive aid for a course you are taking “just because”, after you have already fulfilled the requirements of whatever program you are in. That’s on you.
So if you are now in a situation where you got aid to which you were not entitled- you need to pay it back.
So go meet with a financial aid officer, figure out a repayment plan, get that debt out of the way, and then you can plan for the next stage of your education.
Got it?
There is no technicality.
the first sentence of your statement says:
The first thing that you should have done is gone to your registrars office and find out your next steps for actually getting the degree. They would have told you right then and there, whether you completed the requirements or if you needed additional classes and what those additional classes were.
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You decided on your own to
You did this with out seeing if you were eligible to do so and if you were eligible for financial aid if you decided to pursue this. You did it anyway, you received aid. The college caught up with you, found that you were not eligible for aid, cancelled it and your classes (which they are legally obligated to do) and now you must repay them the money.
Until this happens, you will not be able to transfer because you will need transcripts from every school that you attended . These transcripts must come from the school. Until you repay the school, your transcripts will not be released. Because there is a national clearing house, it will be easy to see how much federal aid you have used.
Until you clean this up, you are stuck. If you don’t repay, you will be sent to collections opening you up to having this debt on your credit report and having wage attachments should you ever get a job (meaning the school will get your money before you get your money). Go back to your college work out a payment plan and get this settled
So the financial aid was linked to his degree? I’m having a hard time following - sorry! Just curious.
Oh now I see. You were no longer degree seeking. This seems like a case of the student being careless about understanding the terms of the aid. But, kids are like this. Major bummer.
Yes, the financial aid is linked to the degree. In addition, retakes are not automatically covered by financial aid.
Students are responsible for applying for the degree when they have completed degree requirements. Simply continuing to go to school may be fine as far as the school is concerned, but it is not fine according to the rules of federal financial aid.
You will have to repay the money, unless you are somehow able to get into a new financial aid eligible (for YOUR circumstances) degree-seeking program in your school effective in the current semester & including your current courses. However, since you said you had retakes, I doubt even getting into such a program, if possible, would work - because the retakes wouldn’t count toward financial aid hours.
Meet with a financial aid advisor to have all of this explained to you, and to see if there is any chance at all for assistance.