<p>Forget transferring, you need to try and work through this with the existing college if you are that close to graduation. Take people’s advice. Put your hat in hand, go see the dean, bring notes you so don’t forget any conversations with anyone after the crime, ask for help with financial aid and potentially changing the zeros to incompletes and see where it gets you. </p>
<p>OP: This last semester I failed both of my classes due to a crime being committed against me which I will not go into. I filed an appeal with financial aid and they DENIED it!</p>
<p>Did you include a copy of the police report with your original appeal? A copy definitely needs to be included in your next attempt at getting your financial aid reinstated.</p>
<p>ScienceGirlMom, Yes, I included copies of all of the court documents. </p>
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<p>Why did you fail 2 classes the first semester? Are there extenuating circumstances there that could help your case?</p>
<p>First, I’m sorry for your crime issue. I don’t WANT you to tell what the crime is here…but the type of crime may have not been deemed as serious by the school. I know it was serious to you, but the school may not have seen it that way.</p>
<p>Still…What happened after you failed the courses the FIRST semester? Were you given an academic warning? Were you put on academic probation? </p>
<p>I find it hard to believe that you didn’t receive some sort of warning from the college. And even if that is not the case, you certainly should have had a warning from YOURSELF.</p>
<p>I also find it hard to believe that your school doesn’t allow incompletes, withdrawal from classes, etc? I have NEVER heard of a college that doesn’t have some provision for this given certain circumstances. Did you even ask DURING the term? That is when these things are usually addressed.</p>
<p>I will say, withdrawing from all of your courses might have netted you the same result…not meeting the SAP requirement.</p>
<p>Your school suspended your aid due to failing four courses in two terms, not just one…at least that is what it sounds like to me. And if your academic record up to that point was at all iffy, that could have contributed to this as well.</p>
<p>I caught the college in a mistake/lie and now they are telling me to only speak with their lawyer.</p>
<p>They claimed my appeal was denied because I’ve hit the 150% maximum time frame when I have not. They were looking at the 2014 degree plan which requires 10 less credit hours than the 2010 degree plan that I am enrolled under. I corrected them on this and pointed out the drastic changes they’ve made to their program over the past 4 years and they’ve had their foot in their mouth ever since and refuse to give me a corrected reason for denying my appeal. </p>
<p>If you can have the type of year you did this year with all the flunks and withdrawals, and still get aid, I’d be surprised. And yes, rules can change for these things. Again, read them carefuly, and if the school is not abiding by current rules or is required to grandfather in old ones and aren’t, you may have a case. But if you truly are supposed to be on financial aid suspension, then you have to make an appeal, and yes, getting everyone so they despise you will lower your odds in getting the appeal through as there is no reason to have to grant one. Those are subject to discretion. I can tell you now that the way you come through on this thread is not conducive to getting any appeal granted. Thumbs down to you, is the way it will likely go unless they HAVE to give it to you. A little less attitude might have and still might get you further. Otherwise you have to speak with the lawyer who may just run out the clock on you. You end up with no aid, no way to take the last two courses, and no degree.</p>
<p>Then speak with their lawyer. Fact remains…you failed four courses in your last two semesters. </p>
<p>The rest of your thread has NOTHING to do with any change in program. </p>
<p>Any more facts to add to this story? It is very hard to give worthwhile advice when the reasons keep changing.</p>
<p>Here is what I’m hearing. First semester, you failed two courses. I would love to know what the university said about THAT. Did you speak to your advisor at that time? Or did you just figure those failures were OK? Second semester, you had an issue outside of the college. You are saying you had no way to contact the college at all to deal with this until after you had already failed the courses. Do I have that correct? (My DD was in the hospital, admitted from the ER. She emailed her advisor, the dean of students, and the head of her department when she was admitted). </p>
<p>So…now you have financial aid suspension with two courses left. Guess the courses you failed were not part of your course of study.</p>
<p>Anyway…I hope you understand that IF you get aid reinstated, and if you are only taking two courses, you will not get financial aid equal to the full year OR a full,time course load. It will all be prorated.</p>
<p>If the school wants you to talk tot when lawyer, then talk to their lawyer. But first get ALL of your facts straight and well organized. Make sure you have ALL of the facts (not opinions…facts) to present the one time you will be meeting.</p>
<p>And most of all, you need to be willing to admit that YOU made some mistakes. Failing two courses the first semester has absolutely nothing to do with the second term failures. Your aid was suspended because you failed FOUR courses…not two. </p>
<p>What are YOU doing to demonstrate that you are a good financial risk? What are you doing to demonstrate that you will actually pass these last two courses. </p>
<p>Right now…your track record for course passage in the last two terms does not make you a good financial risk.</p>
<p>OP, what advice are you looking for?
Then talk to their lawyer</p>
<p>Do any of you realize why the Government allows 150% and not just 100%? To allow one to be able to fail UP TO HALF (50%) of their classes and still have money available to retake them (and to allow for developmental courses which I was not required to take due to high enough test scores) .</p>
<p>I have not failed nearly that many classes, but when what I have failed is combined with the changes they have made to the degree plan that does put me over 150% because this basically causes the classes that only went towards the old degree plan to be counted as failures because they do not apply to the new degree plan.</p>
<p>Why should I be punished because of the college choosing to make changes to the program I am in. They have made it impossible to graduate under the old degree plan because I need classes under my older degree plan that are no longer offered and I can not graduate under the newer degree plan because it puts me over 150% due to all of the unneeded courses I took that were towards the old degree plan.</p>
<p>It seems they are maliciously denying my appeal to be able to “get rid of me” so that they do not have to deal with the problem that their changing of the degree plans nearly every term I have attended has caused. </p>
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<p>You have failed or dropped more than 25% of your courses. Could this be part of the reason for this suspension of aid? </p>
<p>How many years have you been in this old degree program? </p>
<p>The only place you can get answers is at YOUR college. </p>
<p>I am unable to get any answers out of my college, once they realized the booboo they made and how it has affected me they clammed up and told me to only talk to their lawyer which is never around to talk to.</p>
<p>I’ve gone though Archive.Org and have looked at all the changes they have made to the program during the 4 years I have attended and I must say it makes them look bad, almost to the point of it looking like a deceptive business practice to make more money by causing students to have to take more classes than they thought they would be taking when they signed up.</p>
<p>The only place for answers is your college. </p>
<p>The requirements for my major changed when I was a junior. Anyone who was under the OLD requirements had until a certain date to satisfy them AND graduate, or they were subject to the new requirements. No exceptions. My particular major required that students could only get two C grades or they were asked to leave the major. </p>
<p>Senior year, one student got two C grades during the first term. She was not allowed to get a degree in my major. It took her an additional year to satisfy the requirements for a different major.</p>
<p>And those were C grades, not failures.</p>
<p>You’re talking about the academic side of things which I’m fine on. It’s the financial side that is the problem. </p>
<p>I was never given the option to finish under the old degree plan, they stopped offering courses required by the old one as soon as the new one came out. </p>
<p>My GPA under the new degree plan that I only need two classes to finish under is currently 3.585. I have all A’s with two C’s and two B’s as far as the classes that are required by the new degree plan. </p>
<p>Going over my entire transcript I have: 14 A’s | 3 B’s | 2 C’s | 1 D | 5 F’s Do these seem like grades of someone who does not deserve to graduate over two classes?</p>
<p>Because them’s the rules as the college sees them and they can make their own rules about their own standards. And you have to go by them. You can appeal, but as you can see, that’s onerous to do, and you probably will lose if the school is not sympathetic to you and your case, as discretion is a lot of it. And YOU DO NOT come across as someone that is going to get some exception. You should tone it down and own up to your own failings if you want some consideration. The government is giving you more than most parents would give their own kids in terms of chances.</p>
<p>You refer to court documents being submitted, but not police reports.
Is there a police report?
5 F’s?
Are you kidding?</p>
<p>You failed five courses, and four were in the last two consecutive semesters. </p>
<p>Again…you need to discuss this with your college.</p>
<p>And FYI, your overall GPA is what the school will look at when awarding your degree…not just the courses in your major.</p>
<p>I find it very hard to believe that you wouldn’t have been able to finish using the OLD requirements IF you had passed these four failed courses.</p>
<p>Adding…you can’t separate your academics from your financial aid. </p>
<p>And adding again…it sounds like you CAN finish your degree plan…the new one…if you pay for those last two courses. Do you have a trusted relative who might grant you a short term loan?</p>
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<p>I thought it was to allow a student to change majors, do a minor, etc…not fail up to half of classes…that would be nutty.</p>