<p>I attended a community college for the fall 2013 semester. I registered for four classes. I dropped two during the drop/add period, made an A in one, and the other one was a developmental class, so it doesn't count toward college credit. At the end of the semester, I was told I was put on financial aid probation because of the classes I dropped. You have to have a 67% completion rate of all classes, and I ended up with a 58% completion rate. The community college said the financial aid probation would not follow me to another school.</p>
<p>I am transferring to a university for the spring 2014 semester. Will the two classes I dropped at the community college negatively affect my chances to get a Stafford loan at the university? The university I will be going to is one I already attended years ago, and ended up with a 1.86 GPA during that time. </p>
<p>My new school opens back up January 2nd, so I'll be going there in person that day to find out about all this. But all I can think about is whether I will be approved for Stafford, so I'm asking here to see what you all think. I hope I explained all this clearly. If I don't get the Stafford, I can't go to school.</p>
<p>Your dropped courses might affect satisfactory academic progress. Sap requires completion of a certain % age of your courses with satisfactory grades too. Each college has its own sap requirements. Contact your school. </p>
<p>If you have not met sap requirements, you cannot receive aid until you do.</p>
<p>Some more info: My university’s website says if you started the enrollment process before 2009, you have to have a 1.4 GPA to qualify for financial aid. If you started after 2009, you have to have a 2.0 GPA. I attended this university the first time before 2009, so hopefully this means I would only have to have a 1.4 GPA to qualify for aid.</p>
<p>If you started in 2009, you will need the 2.0 to qualify for aid. keep in mind that when you transfer credits, you only transfer the credit, you will not transfer the gpa.</p>
<p>I attended school the first time way before 2009. Does this mean I will only need a 1.4 GPA?</p>
<p>It’s my fault and I’m not blaming anyone else, but I didn’t know dropping classes within the correct time frames could negatively affect your financial aid.</p>
<p>Is it that you dropped the courses or that without them you didn’t have enough ‘good’ grades to bring up the bad ones?</p>
<p>Or is it because you didn’t have enough credits to qualify for financial aid because you dropped 2 out of the 4? If they processed your financial aid for full time status, 12 credits, but you only completed 6 credits, they may not be able to provide any more financial aid until you take those two classes that were already under your aid award.</p>
<p>Your issue isn’t necessarily your GPA (1.86 from before plus your new A?), it’s that you dropped the two classes. Your school’s SAP policy is that you must have at least a 67% completion rate. You dropped 2 of your 4 courses, right?</p>
I believe this varies by school. At my school, grades did transfer. The school kept a separate GPA for credits including transfer grades and an institutional GPA for classes taken at the institution. I believe the GPA for all credits including transfer ones was used for SAP.</p>