<p>My d has accepted a co-op position for the spring semester which will cause her to graduate a semester later than originally planned. She has renewable scholarships (from the school) that assume she will graduate in four years. I know she will check this out with the school itself next week, but in the meantime, does anyone know how, if at all, co-ops generally impact scholarship eligibility? Thanks.</p>
<p>Usually those scholarships are renewable for 8 semesters. The co-op semester should not count towards one of those 8 semesters because she will not be enrolled in classes.</p>
<p>I had a similar question: generally speaking, does parent's health insurance still cover a student during any semester when a student is doing an internship or co op?</p>
<p>Check your insurance and the definition of a dependent. It turned out that our insurance covered a dependent who was 24 years or younger. Enrollment in college was not a requirement. </p>
<p>Scholarship requirements can be tricky and you don't want to screw it up. I would not assume that a 4 years scholarship means that you get 8 semesters of scholarship money, no matter when timing of the semesters. Some schools will hold your scholarship during a leave of absence; some will not. </p>
<p>I'm sure that doing a co-op for a semester is something that the financial aid office has had experience dealing with. There may be some paperwork involved--good thing she is checking now.</p>
<p>MidwestMom2Kids, my S is going on a co-op next year. He is considered enrolled and will receive credit for co-op-ing, it's something like a 2 credit class and for school purposes he is considered a full time student. My H talked to his HR person and he is considered a full time student for health insurance purposes also. </p>
<p>I told my S that health insurance was a condition of accepting a co-op.</p>
<p>My d attends an engineering school and co-ops are pretty common there, so it's hard to believe that would negate her scholarship. Still, they've had other illogical policies. We have determined that she will still be categorized as a full-time student, but will only have to pay for 2 credit hours - quite a bit less than her scholarship covers.</p>
<p>As for insurance, my D interned at a different company last summer for 13 weeks, and the company made her get her own insurance thru the company, even tho she was already covered by her dad through the same company! (After going back to school she had to switch back to her dad.) For the spring co-op, she is supposed to stick with Dad's insurance. So I guess they are all different.</p>
<p>I attended a school that required co-op of all students ... 12 weeks of school alternating with 12 weeks of co-op for 5 years (I actually did co-op my first semester - before ever attending the college). I was covered by my dad's insurance the whole time, because I was enrolled as a full time student the entire time. Co-op isn't just a "job" - it is done as part of the school program.</p>
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<p>Northeastern?</p>
<p>Yes, I understand that about required co-ops - I did 3 semesters of required co-op myself at the Univ of Louisville - but since it's not required at D's school, the scholarship eligibility situation could be different.</p>
<p>I agree that scholarship <em>may</em> be affected. I was just referring to the insurance issue ... although I suppose in this day & age, the insurers might be looking for any loophole to get out of paying claims ... so that is also not a "given."</p>
<p>CIA, nope. General Motors Institute (now known as Kettering University).</p>